Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Faculty of Arts’ first annual Arts Innovation conference brought together a group of professionals to discuss how students can leverage their arts education into successful careers.
Dragon's Den
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs the ice melts and the temperature slowly rises, students are finding all kinds of ways to prepare for the summer—although most of us aren’t outfitting a pirate ship.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDineCasa pairs hungry customers with personal chefs, gets featured on Next Gen Den University of Ottawa graduate Sabrina Leblanc was having dinner with some friends when she commented on how nice it would be if someone else could do the cooking. “It was just a conversation we were having with friends and we said ‘why …
Reading Time: 2 minutesCanadian tech giant Shopify has a new Chief Operating Officer (COO)—and it’s a University of Ottawa grad. Harley Finkelstein graduated from the MBA-JD program at the U of O, entered the Dragon’s Den as a judge on the CBC’s Next Gen Den, and on Jan. 13, 2016, he moved into a new role as COO. …
Reading Time: 2 minutes“I think I took a very different approach to academia and my education than most people do,” he said. “I didn’t go to law school to become a lawyer, and I didn’t do my MBA to go work in a consulting firm.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesA pair of recent University of Ottawa engineering grads are proof that the entrepreneurial flame is burning bright on campus.
