Between Us

Gazette journalist-for-a-day contest winner, Marko Zarkovic, and Gazette editor Heather Lynch meet with President Allan Rock to discuss the role of universities, the road ahead and his message to students.

Marketing director accepts new challenge

Later this month, Paul Boult, uOttawa’s director of marketing, will move on to face new challenges at the Royal Canadian Mint as the director of corporate marketing.

The SIDG: front row centre on the world

Avec l’ouverture des marchés et des frontières, de plus en plus d’étudiantes et d’étudiants veulent vivre des expériences à l’étranger.

“Let’s Talk Science” rewards Mathieu Frenette

Chemistry can cause explosions… and light up the eyes of young and old alike.  Mathieu Frenette, a doctoral candidate in chemistry at the University of Ottawa, knows something of both.

Accords reinforce medical partnerships

The Faculty of Medicine has signed formal five-year agreements that will renew and reinforce its partnership with the following institutions: The Ottawa Hospital, the Montfort Hospital, The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, The Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, Sisters of Charity of Ottawa Health Service, the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and the Queensway Carleton Hospital.

Professor Counsels Canadian Olympians

Earlier this month, the University of Ottawa’s Penny Werthner, assistant professor in the School of Human Kinetics, traveled to Beijing to work with Canada’s Olympic Team.

Typical Canadians

Two-Minute Interview

Donald Martin, Manager, SASS-Counselling

Richard Blute: Calculus for Everyone

Higher order derivatives. Asymptotes. Concavity. Found on the syllabus for Richard Blute’s mandatory first-year calculus course for business, administration and economics students at the University of Ottawa, these are words that can breathe fear and loathing into even the heartiest of first-year souls.

Students experience the real world abroad

For the second year in a row, under an inter-university agreement, a delegation of 10 University of Ottawa spent part of their summer studying at the Université de la Polynésie Française.