A member of the Board of Governors (BOG) says the University of Ottawa will have to boost its doctoral graduation rate if the university wants to achieve one of its top strategic goals by 2020.
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In what began as a quest into the mechanisms of autophagy, a cellular degradation process, has lead researchers from the University of Ottawa to an astounding discovery.
“We’re happy to be able to add the field of health, an important focus of research for both our countries,” said U of O president Allan Rock. French President Francois Hollande was present for the announcement at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
An executive member of the International, Political and Policy Studies Student Association (IPPSSA) student association has resigned following allegations of sexual harassment.
Police have made arrests in relation to two assaults that occurred in downtown Ottawa. On Tuesday evening, a 32-year-old international student was assaulted, and almost thrown off Cummings Bridge, located between downtown Ottawa and Vanier.
The Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) has prepared a new campaign in response to rumours that the University of Ottawa may introduce a code of conduct.
“My entire activist life has been spent looking for connections between issues that are generally disconnected,” said outspoken American activist Angela Davis.
A recent study conducted by a group of Ottawa researchers has found some surprising results regarding a potential link between youth suicide and subsequent media coverage.
“The Learning Centre will provide much-needed state of the art classroom facilities and attractive study spaces to our growing and ever-evolving student population,” said Rachel Ouellette, chief of staff of the office of the vice-president academic and provost. The new study spaces will seat more than 800 students.
The University of Ottawa Student Emergency Response Team (UOSERT) officially became the 12th service of the SFUO in a referendum.
A group of six University of Ottawa engineering students have returned from a prize-winning bout at the Valeo Innovation Challenge in Paris, where they showed off their designs for a hybrid vehicle.
The UNB student union website is back online after it was overtaken by an organization supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) for a short time Oct. 13.
At least 18 faculty members are calling on Ryerson University to stop sourcing Ryerson-branded clothing from American Apparel because of what they call the company’s sexist advertising.
Groups on campus hope an upcoming lecture by jes sachse, a Toronto-based disability artist and activist, will bring about a push for greater accessibility at the University of Ottawa.
“When I told people to please follow lockdown procedures, I don’t know if it’s just because they didn’t take me seriously because I was technically a student, but none of them even seemed to know what exactly that meant,” he said.
An initiative by the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) to carry out workshops that will address the way we talk about sexual violence has thrown speed bumps in front of the federated bodies required to host them.
In a week when national security and terrorism were already at the top of the national political agenda, Parliament Hill itself today was besieged by a gunman who shot and killed a soldier at the National War Memorial before bursting into the Centre Block, apparently bent on a rampage, before being shot and killed himself in a shootout with Hill security officials.
High school students and their parents who checked out our campus on Oct. 17 were handed a flyer that listed the “top five” reasons not to attend the University of Ottawa.
The Student Federation of the University of Ottawa’s (SFUO) first general assembly (GA) is slated for Nov. 17, after a year of campaigning.
The University of Ottawa completed the 2013–14 fiscal year with a $15.3-million surplus, according to a late-September report from the fi- nance and treasury committee to the Board of Governors.
After three years as a member of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa’s (SFUO) executive, president Anne-Marie Roy will be moving on next year to work for the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS).
A University of Ottawa grad has developed a new app that gives more options to users of today’s hottest matchmaker.
The student-run emergency response team at the University of Ottawa has called for a referendum in hopes of becoming the next official service of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO).
SFUO president Anne-Marie Roy had a Twitter conversation with Ottawa mayor Jim Watson, who is running for re-election in the upcoming Oct. 27 mayoral elections. Roy expressed her disappointment that student issues were not adequately discussed at mayoral debates, to which Watson responded by saying it was not his fault the SFUO did not organize a debate on campus, but that he did debate at Carleton University.
In case you missed the Oct. 15 Rideau-Vanier debates, here is a tweet-by-tweet of what was said and done.
