Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Faculty of Engineering has challenged the University of Ottawa community to put their fingerprints to good use to help a six-year-old boy in need of a prosthetic limb.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the help of provincial funding, the Telfer School of Management has announced the creation of a new PhD management program to be piloted in 2016.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) ran a deficit for 101 Week last year and more than doubled it this year, the executive recently announced.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“In the same way, attempting to capture in a few minutes the life and ideals of a visionary and a man who rose above all the challenges of his time to leave a lasting legacy in the hearts of many is a quite difficult endeavour,” he said.
Reading Time: 2 minutesResearchers from the University of Ottawa and University of Strasbourg in France have rewritten the story on the second-largest mass extinction in Earth’s history, an event that wiped out about 85 per cent of life on Earth at the time.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Ought there to be a code of conduct?” the taskforce asked, according to Rock. “If so, how should it be developed, what should it look like, how would it be administered, and what role does the university have in the responding to behaviour off-campus or in behaviour that’s not related to the academic role of the university?”
Reading Time: 2 minutesKellie Ring is a fourth-year guard for the Gee-Gees women’s basketball team. She’s a member of the starting lineup, and one of the more experienced players on a young team. The past four years she’s gone through two ACL tears, but she continues to be a leader and looks to push the Gees into promising playoff basketball this season.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“I have to admit I was surprised by this honour,” said Bedford. “After all, you guys believe in freedom. I believe in bondage. You like free speech. I gag my clients. You support equality. I preach female superiority. You promote humane treatment of prisoners. I torture mine. But why fuss over details?”
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe women’s volleyball team are on a roll after nabbing two wins on a southern Ontario road trip.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year’s festivities have brought about controversy, as on-campus beard aficionados are butting heads with the U of O chapter of the United Pogonophobes Alliance (UPA). Pogonophobia is the scientific term for an extreme fear or hatred of beards. The UPA believes the Movember crowd is infringing upon the civil rights of local pogonophobes.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe first general assembly (GA) of Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) members gave way to a rowdy audience large enough to cause a ruckus, but not enough to make any decisions.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa Heart Institute opened the Women’s Heart Health Centre on Nov. 7, the first of its kind in Canada.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe talk to the oldest student organization, the U of O English Debating Society about their recent trip to Montreal.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 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.
Reading Time: < 1 minute“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.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAn executive member of the International, Political and Policy Studies Student Association (IPPSSA) student association has resigned following allegations of sexual harassment.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPolice 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“It is a very elite competition as it is intended for those who have aspirations to one day compete for Canada,” she said. And based on the results of her national showing, and from the upcoming NRCS, Fogarty may be able to do just that.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“I thought I was a good swimmer until I tried water polo … my first game was a lesson in drowning. You’re constantly being pulled underwater by other people, people get in your face. There’s no bubble when you’re playing water polo.” -Chantel Goodman
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Gee-Gees football team made the long trek to Windsor on Nov. 1 to not only win their first playoff game, but also get reparations for a match they needed to win weeks ago
Reading Time: 2 minutes“My entire activist life has been spent looking for connections between issues that are generally disconnected,” said outspoken American activist Angela Davis.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“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.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe University of Ottawa has confirmed that mathematics and computer science professor Ivan Stojmenovic, 57, died in a car crash at around 11:30 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 3.
