Season's Greetings from the Gazette team

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Funds for ophthalmology raised at celebrity bash

A recent birthday bash dubbed The Eye-Ayes Have It, for television journalist Craig Oliver, has raised $100,000 for the University of Ottawa’s W. Bruce Jackson Endowment for Fellowships in Ophthalmology.

University team captures silver at MIT

Returning to normalcy after winning silver at one of the most prestigious student research contests in the world is no easy feat, especially if it is your first time competing.

University press welcomes new director

The University of Ottawa Press (UOP) is planning to expand its publishing program and heighten its profile under its newly appointed director.

Religious scholar wins book award

Emma Anderson, an assistant professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies, is the recipient of a prestigious book prize from the American Academy of Religion.

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.

“It starts here.”

The phrase is everywhere: in bus shelters and on buses, in the daily newspapers and on the Ottawa Citizen and CBC Radio websites.

MBA students win Schulich Tata Cup

The Telfer School of Management congratulates Robert Pettifer, Jihong Yang, Laura Recoskie and Alex Khoroshylov on winning the 4th Annual Schulich-Tata Cup MBA Case Competition.

Christmas stocking collection

This year, the University is once again co-ordinating a Christmas Stocking Drive for disadvantaged children in the Ottawa area.

Two-Minute Interview

Jeremy Kerr
Associate professor, biology - Department of Biology

Keeping the holidays “green”

Whether or not there is snow on the ground for the holiday season, there are ways to enjoy a truly “green” Christmas, saving money and energy and conserving our precious natural resources.

Recycling: New priorities, new tasks

Nurturing a colony of worms with garbage from the cafeteria! If 20 years ago Louise Lavictoire and Luc Plouffe had been told that part of their daily tasks at the University of Ottawa would involve maintaining a vermicomposting system, they would have had a good laugh.

Aboriginal Day

The Student Academic Success Service and the Community Life Service organized a celebration of First Nations, Métis and Inuit culture in the Agora in November.