Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Fulcrum’s Cavalry Awards
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Reading Time: 3 minutesAs numerous post-secondary institutions across Canada commit to creating comprehensive sexual assault policies, updates to the University of Ottawa’s policy have been pushed to the end of January.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteProgress has been slow in the case of two former members of the University of Ottawa men’s hockey team, which had its third court proceeding on Dec. 2.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOttawa police have enlisted the help of a University of Ottawa criminologist to conduct a study analyzing the interactions officers have had with women who report violent crimes.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCardona found acceptance and respect from her team. Four years later, she and her teammates have joined the You Can Play project.
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.
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 minutesCheck out the Fulcrum’s top running shoes.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnytime, anywhere, with no equipment—that’s the beauty of push-ups.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSix-dozen students from the University of Ottawa’s intramurals program rallied together for an evening of fun and competitive matchups in support of Relay for Life.
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 minutesThe Gee-Gees women’s hockey team had to step up their defensive game if they wanted to win their two road games against Concordia University and the University of Montreal on Nov. 15–16.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa equestrian Gee-Gees have made great leaps and bounds this year.
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.
