Reading Time: 2 minutesDr. Jessica Forrest, an associate professor at the University of Ottawa and her team at Forrest Lab have been researching how climate change has been affecting bee biology and pollination ecology.
Science & Tech
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Sept. 15, the University of Ottawa’s Hackathon group, uOttaHack, hosted a panel showcasing tech interns.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Sept.9, students in CSI 4139, Design of Secure Systems, joined their class using YouTube live streams only to see their private information leaked on YouTube.
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwo University of Ottawa students, Eve Staszczyszyn and Livia Han have worked with students from the University of Waterloo BETS Program and the Queen’s Center for Advanced Computing to develop Wellness World; a portal aimed to combat the mental health crisis centered around the U of O community.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen students think of tough exams there is one particular entry that takes the cake. It’s the William Lowell Putnam Competition, a grueling six hour mathematics exam with extremely difficult conceptual problems in which the top math students at the world’s best universities compete in.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa Students’ Union hosted an event called STEMinism to provide advice and help to women and non-binary individuals studying in a STEM degree. The Fulcrum was there and here’s what we learned!
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor a lot of students working from home, having a computer that can handle your workload for the fall semester is essential. After building a few PC’s in the past, here are a few tips that will help you build your own personalized computer.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn an announcement sent out by the Information Technology Department at the University of Ottawa, all students’ emails will be migrated from Google’s mail platform Gmail, to Microsoft’s Outlook platform.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith students enrolling for their fall and winter semesters, many have been reluctantly using the course selection tool provided by the University of Ottawa on uoZone. This tool has become notorious for being difficult to use, and having schedules that are very difficult to plan with conflicts that are hard to track.
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe University of Ottawa will allow professors to use the Respondus Lockdown Browser to conduct online exams. Meant to combat academic fraud the software has raised a number of accessibility and privacy concerns among students. The software is also detected as malware by some antivirus software and may not be effective at all in combating academic fraud.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUniversity of Ottawa researchers Kimberly Mitchell and Vance Trudeau have discovered a new hormone in zebrafish that could help combat human infertility. The researchers were accompanied by a group of students who observed Zebrafish mating patterns and were instrumental in completing the project.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs hospitals brace for an expected surge of COVID-19 patients and concerns around a shortage of personal protective equipment grow, University of Ottawa engineers are pumping out plastic face shields for frontline health-care workers at the Richard L’Abbé Makerspace lab on campus.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFive University of Ottawa professors are receiving more than $2 million in funding from the federal government to support research projects aimed at addressing the COVID-19 epidemic.
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast month, 246 Canadian academics collaborated with Extinction Rebellion and signed an open letter that called on the federal government to take action against the climate crisis. The Fulcrum spoke with two of the seven University of Ottawa professors who signed the letter.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA new study conducted by a student at the University of Ottawa has found a direct link between climate change and declining bumblebee populations — as well as strategies to combat the consequences of both.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe new union will offer the same services as the SFUO except for UOSERT, which is now operated by Protection Services. The Women’s Resource Centre and Pride Centre will also be merged.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Although most of our members are in human kinetics, our club is open to students of all programs that are passionate about learning the business side of sports.” — Zachary Pilling, internal relations with the UOSBC.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAgribusiness is mentioned in Ottawa’s Rural Affairs and Economic Development Plan as a vital growth industry in the region’s future.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe only way forward is to make zero waste be the universal standard. Make every business be like Nu Grocery. Make every business sustainable.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile it was a strong year for PIVIK and Agora, the numbers looked much worse for Café Alt and 1848.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMacDonald mentioned that many of his activities didn’t even seem related to music at the time, from being a 101 Week guide to running his fraternity. But he clarified that the soft skills he learned from his university days are universal and invaluable in any field.
Reading Time: 2 minutesJonathan Ibrahim, a second-year U of O marketing student, teamed up with his friend Daniel Laframboise to come up with the idea for the Taskrilla app as a way to bring contractors and services directly to one’s home.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCompanies come up with ways to get hit of legalized weed revenues In light of federal court judge Michael Phelan’s recent ruling, which struck down a previous ban on medical marijuana patients growing their own plants, a new bill is being lobbied for in Parliament that would permit businesses to grow their own plants and …
Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier this year, Joe’s Crab Shack, a large restaurant chain in the U.S. eliminated the practice of tipping and increased the pay of its workers. As several other American restaurants have moved towards ending tipping, the future of this long held practice is being called into question. The idea of abolishing tipping shouldn’t be completely …
Reading Time: 2 minutesDasha Shakov, a third-year marketing student at the University of Ottawa, is taking her business education to the next level—by starting her own online gift shop, called Parcelly.
