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OTTAWA, June 14, 2019 - The following statement has been issued by Jacques Frémont, President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Ottawa following an incident involving campus Protection Services and a student. On Wednesday I learned of an incident involving one of our students and our campus Protection Services. There have been subsequent alleg...

Medical science has long proven the benefits of taking folic acid for a healthy pregnancy. However, many prenatal supplements sold in Canada contain more than twice the recommended dose of folic acid.

The Telfer School of Management Centre for Executive Leadership, at the University of Ottawa and Ryerson Diversity Institute have partnered to conduct a gender-based assessment of Ontario small business support organizations. This assessment offers new insights and strategies to support diverse women entrepreneurs. The report can be f...

A new CHEO and University of Ottawa study, published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, shows a dramatic increase in the number of Ontario adolescents who visited an emergency department for self-harm between 2009 and 2017. The research looked at all the emergency department visits for self-harm or mental health concerns by Ontario...

Every parent wants to raise plucky and resilient kids, but it appears they cannot achieve this on their own: it turns out a family’s neighbourhood might be more important for children and their mental health than we thought. Indeed, according to research co-led by Dr. Ian Colman from the University of Ottawa and Dr. Jame...

Good news for bird lovers: they will be able to continue feeding birds without fearing of the impacts it could have on their behaviour. According to a University of Ottawa study published in Animal Cognition, urbanization and the presence of feeders does not have a significant impact on black-capped chickadees feeding behaviour and mem...

To increase the security of our systems and information and to help users recognize malicious emails, we recently implemented a security disclaimer on all emails incoming from external sources.

We sat down with Dr. Ann Jolly, Professor at uOttawa's School of Epidemiology and Public Health, to get some context on measles and the situation in Canada. She is available to speak to members of the media on this subject: ajolly@uottawa.ca In the last few weeks, numerous new measles cases have been confirmed all across Canada, notabl...

We sat down with Professor and Vice-Dean Carissima Mathen, Faculty of Law, to get some context on abortion rights in the States, the correlation with the Canadian legal system, and how politics impacts these rights. Q. Over the past few days numerous American states have passed the strictest anti-abortion law seen in decades. Why are t...

Ottawa, May 28, 2019 – Yesterday evening, the Board of Governors of the University of Ottawa approved the institution’s 2019–2020 budget. The budget includes a deficit, in order to preserve certain assets and allow the University to maintain its momentum. The operating budget for the fiscal year that started May 1 will include a deficit of $17 million...