Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Vote on Campus initiative served to expand accessible voting for young voters. This was especially beneficial for students voting for their home riding rather than the riding of their university. In the absence of this program, many are confused about how to vote — where does one register, and how does one navigate voting from afar?
Reading Time: 3 minutes“We had really great enthusiasm as a team, and as stressful as it was and how little sleep we got, we still made it really fun and I think that was contagious.”
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith a summer littered with forest fires, air quality advisories, and heat warnings, climate change has everyone on the hot seat
Reading Time: 3 minutesThirty food experts recently landed at the University of Ottawa to introduce nuance into the conversation on the future of protein production.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDeguise said that there will have to be more research into how this could affect humans, and that his lab is preparing to collaborate with clinicians to work with spinal muscular atrophy patients and study their spleens.
Reading Time: 7 minutesStudents are directly affected by conditions facing part-time professors—and here’s why When news broke that the Association of Part-Time Professors of the University of Ottawa (APTPUO) voted for a strike mandate, and would be in a legal position to strike if no agreement was reached by Oct. 30, much of the same messages were littered …
Reading Time: 7 minutesThough discussing the fine line between having one too many and misuse or addiction can be sobering, the Fulcrum encourages students to reformulate the extreme narratives around alcohol to make a little room for those who need support.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs the new school year begins, one of the biggest changes that students will see is the new learning management system (LMS), Brightspace. The program, which is designed to enhance student engagement with courses through the online database, was launched on May 1 for the spring/summer semester, and will be in full use for all students for this fall.
Reading Time: 3 minutesReports of Lyme disease in the Ottawa area have been increasing in recent years, leading researchers at the University of Ottawa to investigate the geographical reasons behind this upward trend.
Manisha Kulkarni, an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa’s School of Epidemiology, Public Health, and Preventive Medicine researches pathogens that are transmitted by insects and arthropods, and believes that the high rate of Lyme disease in Ottawa is the result of more ticks in the region.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSo as you gear up with water bottles of liquor and handfuls of fast food for your big week, make us proud—don’t repeat our mistakes!!
Reading Time: 2 minutes“May I accompany you?” he asked. It was a classic case of one douche two douche red douche blue douche.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s easy to be overwhelmed during your studies. It’s so common in fact that the services at the University of Ottawa are often overwhelmed with students trying to access help.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis faculty will cater to students interested in both hard sciences and the humanities, and will include specialization options in sentient robotics, planetary destroyer engineering, solar disruption, and general arts.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOnly 11 months after developing a project for an Ottawa entrepreneurship competition, a team of U of O students led by Kathleen Kemp are watching their business take over the city’s streets.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFather Roger Guindon, the president of the University of Ottawa from 1964-1984, has died at the age of 92.
