Reading Time: 2 minutes$200k donation from university will fund both grad and undergrads The referendum question to bring a third refugee student to the University of Ottawa was passed during the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) elections, but uncertainty as to whether this would actually happen arose at the most recent Board of Administration (BOA) …
Reading Time: 2 minutesEconomist Joseph Stiglitz visits to talk about pending trade agreement The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement between 12 pacific rim countries that was signed by Canada on Feb. 4, is the focus of a growing discussion on how the TPP will affect factors from job creation to patents on generic medicines. While the agreement …
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Overall I’m really proud of the team… we were all able to band together and continue to work hard to achieve our goals.”—Michael Howard.
Reading Time: 3 minutesRovinescu and Johnston both focused on the importance of disruption in the face of the changing working world, and Rovinescu identified the catalyst for the debate question itself—employers believe graduates are not ready for entry level positions, while educational institutions do.
Reading Time: 4 minutesMany schools publish write ups and hold press conferences to drum up excitement, feeding their fans all the information they need on their new addition. For Gee-Gees fans, it has been radio silence for not only this recruiting year, but for many years past.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs one of the most dangerous scoring threats to ever don the garnet and grey, Francki was part of the veteran core of Gee-Gees teams that were perennial national championship contenders.
Reading Time: 4 minutesStress can be a challenge to manage and overcome in an academic setting, especially during exam season. But for some, this period can trigger something more serious.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa is one of 21 post-secondary institutes in Ontario that belong to the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies (OCGS), which stipulates in its bylaws that graduate students must not work more than 10 hours per week.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUniversity of Ottawa PhD candidate Nicholas Ravanelli is trying to prove with his research if it’s possible to sweat better.
Reading Time: 2 minutesn co-operation with the CIS, the CFL Draft offers a sort of security blanket for its Canadian college draftees. It’s a safeguard, so to speak, which allows for CFL-drafted Canadian collegiate athletes to return to university even after being drafted, if they so choose, and continue playing football at the CIS level.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAccording to the CSA, this U of O study provides the first complete view of surface ice velocity across the St. Elias Mountains. This is important because it also shows the effectiveness of observing glacier patterns from space.
Reading Time: 2 minutesKelsey Schmitz, an education content specialist at Montreal educational game company Learning Bird who has a PhD in Education from the U of O, researches how people who play games, particularly video games, develop a “learning culture and digital identity.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter cleaning up at the Ontario University Athletics basketball awards, Gee-Gees athletes also got their fair share of representation on the national level in both basketball and hockey.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“This is also one of the challenges of organizing graduate students on a campus because so much of the work that they end up doing—people work often exclusively in their labs and with a professor,” said Hunsdale. “The notion of student life isn’t quite the same.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe tenacious attitude of the battered and bruised team almost willed them to a victory, however they ran out of gas in the final minutes.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe quarterfinal loss is the team’s lowest exit in four years, winning a bronze in 2013 followed by two consecutive silvers.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Student Federation of the University of Ottawa hosted its fourth General Assembly on Tuesday night, but once again, it failed to meet quorum.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBiswal didn’t disappoint, as she exceeded the lofty expectations set before her. She finished first in the women’s 60-metre hurdle and earned a gold medal, making Gee-Gees history in the process.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Gees may have been the favourite heading into the gold medal match on their home floor, but instead it ended in a 66-60 upset.
Reading Time: 4 minutes“A loss like last night’s could change anybody. We knew our season was on the line and if we lost we might not get this wildcard.”—Matt Plunkett, Gee-Gees forward.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a whole, the Gee-Gees teams were incredibly well represented, showing the strength of their seasons.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFunds will do more good for students spent on projects under university control In a recent Board of Governors (BOG) meeting university president Allan Rock announced that the university plans to take faculty surpluses to help pay off the university’s $7.6-million deficit. This money given to the faculties by the university to pay for their …
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe university’s website calls the Sports Complex ‘the university’s state-of-the-art sports facility’, which may have been so 15 years ago, but is no longer true.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThink tank offers practical learning in public finance, set to open this year The University of Ottawa is set to be the first university in Canada to open an Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy (IFSD) after it was announced on Feb. 25 that it would receive funding from the Ontario government. The institute’s emphasis …
Reading Time: 2 minutesResearch by U of O prof to produce new detection algorithms Social media could soon be put to good use when it comes to detecting possible mental illness, according to research by University of Ottawa Engineering and Computer Science professor Diana Inkpen and her team. The project will use data collected from social media websites …
