Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year-long partnership to discover a useable yeast with the biology department was led by Dr. Alexandre Poulain, and biology student Jessica Gaudet.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes“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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAmong the highlights are a national plan that would better coordinate Canada’s various crisis hotlines, and additional programming for racialized, LGBTQ+, and Indigenous populations.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“(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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA majority of candidates are running uncontested, and many positions have no candidates at all.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“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.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPost-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.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWitnesses told the Fulcrum on the scene the car was a beige Chrysler caravan with a black stripe.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe budget addresses many hot-button issues on campus, including student loan costs.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“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.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCommunications 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.”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 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.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“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
Reading Time: 2 minutes“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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCandidates must be currently registered in an undergraduate program at the University of Ottawa and pass an administration administered bilingualism exam.
Reading Time: < 1 minute“Your humanitarian work will never be forgotten.” — Friend of Stephanie Lacroix pays tribute on Twitter.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGraham, a life-long academic, has also held positions at Concordia, the Memorial University of Newfoundland, and advised on Tanzania’s post-secondary education strategy.
Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery 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.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe development follows allegations that the SFUO laid off employees and began liquidating assets, following a breakdown in negotiations with the UOSU.
