First-year biology students take part in lab activities, using the brand new facilities of the Bioscience Complex on September 21 – the very first day that the labs were opened for classroom instruction.
Do you agree with our aim of becoming one of Canada's top five universities? Have we chosen directions and set objectives that make this aim attainable? Now that we've identified ourselves as Canada's university, are we taking full advantage of this “brand”?
The 2004 United Way Campaign on campus will run from October 13 to October 29 with a goal of $345,000 – an increase of $15,000 over the amount raised in 2003.
The exterior courtyard in the Biosciences Complex will recreate a boreal forest and wetland environment, and offer students in the Faculty of Science opportunities to manipulate that environment and test their theories and learning.
The Creative Commons project, led by Prof. Marcus Bornfreund, is part of an international effort to promote open-source (freely available) licences. Bornfreund is responsible for translating the popular Creative Commons for use under Canadian law.
This series will be the first of its kind in Canada and will seek to foster multidisciplinary learning that can inform and influence public policy in this area.
Thanks to a fun and exciting initiative by the Faculty of Medicine and its Office of Continuing Medical Education, curious minds will get a chance to find out what it's like to become a doctor.
The site, which was launched in June of 2003 as a way for alumni and students to register for special events and to promote alumni products, reached the financial milestone in late September.
The project's principal investigator is Dr. Pierre Allard and his research team will include experts in medicine, epidemiology, nursing and psychology.
Dr. Frans Leenen, director of the Hypertension Unit at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, wants to see greater physician accountability in the treatment of high blood pressure.
The 11 researchers who are currently part of the Parkinson Research Consortium thanked the Ottawa Kiwanis Medical Foundation for its $50,000 donation and the Parkinson Society Ottawa for a $100,000 grant.
The 2006 EMBA graduating class met His Excellency Mr. Shumin Lu, the Chinese Ambassador to Canada as part of their preparations for their international consulting engagement in Shanghai
The University of Ottawa is a partner in a exhibition on the history of football in Ottawa, which will be open until Nov. 21, 2004, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, in the exhibition room on the first floor of City Hall at 110 Laurier Avenue West. Admission is free.
Matthew Joseph Keshwah has been named the Golden Key 2004 International Student Leader of the Year. George Brook received the 2003-2004 Student Paper of the Year Award from the Project Management Institute Educational Foundation.
Former Quebec cabinet minister and uOttawa alumnus, Gil Rémillard, received one of France's highest honour for his work as a legislator and as an observer with the United Nations.
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