Reading Time: 2 minutesUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA administration has teamed up with the Student Academic Success Service (SASS), the Office of Institutional Research and Planning, and the vice president of academics in an attempt to help French-speaking students from predominantly English-speaking regions better adapt to university-level French courses.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCAMPUSGRIDS, A NEW social network created by four University of Ottawa students, aims to help students find clubs, events, and businesses.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA FIGHT BETWEEN police and bar patrons at Tequila Jacks in the ByWard Market resulted in charges against two 21-year-old men. Police responded to a disturbance on Clarence Street at about midnight on Sept. 6 to find a man assaulting security staff with a metal lineup pole, according to police.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo University of Ottawa students won $20,000 to further invest in their new company in a pitch competition for student entrepreneurs.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUniversity of Ottawa students honoured for their achievements Daniel LeRoy | Fulcrum Staff UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA students Leah Stuart-Sheppard and Julia Koulik have received recognition in past months for their efforts and excellence in research. As per Allan Rock’s Vision 2020, his strategic plan for the university to be achieved by the year 2020, the …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe 25-year-old University of Ottawa law graduate recently brought forward an application to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to change the rules of succession so that a potential heir’s religion would not be a factor.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Student Federation of the Univeristy of Ottawa (SFUO) Board of Administration (BOA) abolished its promotions committee at its monthly meeting Aug. 25.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA law professor Amir Attaran claimed that Minister of Justice and Attorney General Peter MacKay misled the Canadian public with his comments regarding Justin Trudeau’s recent admission to smoking marijuana as a sitting Member of Parliament (MP).
Reading Time: 2 minutesA MEMBER OF Provincial Parliament in southwestern Ontario is lobbying the University of Ottawa to put a new campus in his riding.
Reading Time: 2 minutes1848 has reopened after a summer of construction and the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) is now looking to make improvements to one of its other businesses, Pivik.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA professors and academic librarians have reached a four-year labour deal that will create dozens of new tenure-track positions and salary increases.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMore than a dozen post-secondary institutions across Canada have begun a move to leave the Canadian Federation of Students.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Ontario Civil Liberties Association is asking the University of Ottawa to stop funding a private defamation lawsuit filed by professor Joanne St. Lewis against former professor Denis Rancourt.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE ROYAL CANADIAN Mounted Police (RCMP) have laid charges in connection with the death of Emerson Curran.
Reading Time: 2 minutes You can make the most of your first week at the University of Ottawa by participating in as many events as you possibly can.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe study was performed at two Level 1 trauma centers and involved 37 consecutive patients over the age of 60 with SCIs related to C-spine fractures. Daneshvar determined the mortality rate and the risk factors for negative outcomes explained.
Reading Time: 2 minutesGrowing numbers of applicants and a lack of on-campus space have been a growing problem that has forced Housing Service to place first-year students in Sandy Hill homes that the service owns and manages; however, this solution is no longer a viable option.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOTTAWA’S PUBLIC TRANSIT will be hectic until 2018, according to Mayor Jim Watson. This year’s university move-in weekend will provide new and returning students with first-hand experience of the discord expected in the downtown core with the construction of the new Light Rail Transit (LRT) line.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA COMMITTEE MADE up of members of Food Services, Housing Service, the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO), and more is deliberating on how to improve the U of O’s food services. “As campus stands right now, Food Services are unable to keep up with demand,” said Patrick Genest, director of Food Services. …
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo Bixi Bike stations have been installed on the University of Ottawa campus: one on Waller Street outside Hagen Hall and one outside of the Minto Sports Complex on King Edward Street.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOntario has begun screening newborns for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), commonly known as bubble boy disease, which weakens newborns’ immune systems, rendering them unable to fight off even mild infections.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA geography professor at the University of Ottawa was acquitted Aug. 21 of threatening to kill the head of his department during “venting sessions” with colleagues in the summer of 2012.
Reading Time: 2 minutesU of O president aims to create ‘unmatched’ bilingual resource to contribute to public policy Photo by Mico Mazza CANADA WILL SEE its first school of government at the University of Ottawa as early as 2015, according to plans led by university president Allan Rock. The new school will aim to create a “national, …
Reading Time: 3 minutesReport calls program ‘deeply troubled,’ university halts admission of new students Photo by Adam Feibel The University of Ottawa has suspended admission of new students to its journalism program for the upcoming academic year. A university committee decided to suspend admission to the program at the earliest opportunity after an internal report to the …
Reading Time: 2 minutesStudents can breathe easier now that the potential professors’ strike at the University of Ottawa has been avoided.
