The U of O pays professors above average as compared to other Canadian schools, with salaries higher than 80 per cent of other institutions.
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This year-long partnership to discover a useable yeast with the biology department was led by Dr. Alexandre Poulain, and biology student Jessica Gaudet.
“It’s very hard to overturn the convictions. Really, really hard. Because once people have made up their minds about you, then they don’t really want to look at you,” — Katheryn Campbell, U of O criminology professor, and Innocence Ottawa coordinator.
If the referendum passes, full-time students would pay mandatory union fees totalling $105.88 per semester. This fee would cover all core union functions including safety, academic support, and health services.
The report, released on Monday March 25, details that McInnis has been on paid administrative leave or suspension from coaching and his role as club executive director with the Ottawa Lions since Sept. 13, 2018, as a result of sexual harassment complaints made to the club in 2018. McInnis was also “reprimanded by the club” after complaints of sexual harassment made in 2016.
Among the highlights are a national plan that would better coordinate Canada’s various crisis hotlines, and additional programming for racialized, LGBTQ+, and Indigenous populations.
“(These changes are) not benefitting anyone except Ford and his cronies … we’re going to have to fight back.” — Susan Spronk, president of the Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa.
A majority of candidates are running uncontested, and many positions have no candidates at all.
“Molecular machines are exactly what they sound like: machines that do some sort of work, but at the length scale of molecules” — Dr. David Bryce.
After speeding through the University of Ottawa campus on Wednesday afternoon on a pedestrian walk, 36-year old driver Marc Andre Fournier was detained by Ottawa Police.
Post-secondary students across the province held a walkout today, leaving their classes and staging rallies to protest recent changes to education policy by the provincial government.
Witnesses told the Fulcrum on the scene the car was a beige Chrysler caravan with a black stripe.
The budget addresses many hot-button issues on campus, including student loan costs.
“Electric buses are a lot less complicated, there are less moving parts when compared to a hybrid or an internal combustion engine,” explained de Jonge.
Communications director of the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, Stephanie Rea, confirmed, “fees that support programs and services that promote on-campus safety, including the prevention of sexual violence, are an allowable compulsory ancillary fee under the Student Choice Initiative.”
According to the OPS, the investigation into Lyons’ crimes began in 2015, when one of the victims came forward to the authorities and revealed online conversations where Lyons would offer modelling services to teenage girls, later asking for sexual favours in exchange for money.
On Tuesday the Ontario government announced they would double their 2018-19 investment in a fund for programs combating sexual violence on campuses, and released a series of new requirements for post-secondary institutions alongside their summary report of the 2018 Student Voices on Sexual Violence Survey.
“What we’re trying to do is provide as many opportunities for people to get involved, and get engaged, and make their voices heard.” — David Graham, University Provost and vice-president academic.
The protest was originally organized as a youth movement inspired by Swedish activist Greta Thunburg. The 16-year-old garnered international attention after her protests in front of Sweden’s parliament buildings.
“She was still so optimistic about the world, and about people, and about human nature.” — Becca Klaassen on the legacy of her friend Stéphanie Lacroix
“There’s more people being drawn to the issue and in a lot of the communities that are affected by this, some of them are our target communities” — Holly Todd, co-founder of Poly, speaking on the lack of recycling infrastructure in small communities.
Candidates must be currently registered in an undergraduate program at the University of Ottawa and pass an administration administered bilingualism exam.
“Your humanitarian work will never be forgotten.” — Friend of Stephanie Lacroix pays tribute on Twitter.
Graham, a life-long academic, has also held positions at Concordia, the Memorial University of Newfoundland, and advised on Tanzania’s post-secondary education strategy.
Every big decision we make should be influenced by those choices and priorities that we’ve set out as an institution” —David Graham, University Provost and vice-president academic.
