United Way campaign aiming at $345,000 touchdown

Vice-Rector Victor Simon gives the official kickoff to the 2004 University of Ottawa United Way Campaign, on October 13. The 2004 campaign goal is $345,000.

Service learning promotes social responsibility

Service learning is a relatively new, but powerful pedagogical approach that allows students to engage in approved community service projects, typically for three hours weekly, and relate their experiences back to course content through means such as journal writing, classroom discussion and formal written reports.

More uOttawa students benefit from financial support

University of Ottawa students receive an average $8,600 in assistance per year. This amount is $1,000 higher than the national average.

A Look at the University of Ottawa Press

What goes on inside a publishing house? Come and find out at the University of Ottawa Press open house on Wednesday, November 10, 2004.

Ottawa is birthplace of geomatics field

As Michael Sawada tours students or other visitors through the University's latest laboratories packed with powerful computers for researchers to explore sophisticated geographic concepts, he likes to point out that this burgeoning field of inquiry was ushered in and named right here in Ottawa.

Fall convocation features humanist and cosmologist

More than 1,200 students will receive their diploma at fall convocation on October 31, 2004. During the ceremony, the University will confer honorary doctorates to two eminent personalities in the fields of literature and astrophysics: John Ralston Saul and Hubert Reeves.

Balancing copyright and teaching

Six national education organizations urge the federal government to introduce an “educational amendment” into Canadian copyright law that would make it legal for students and teachers to engage in routine on-line uses of publicly available Internet materials in a program of learning.

Scholarship geared to family medicine students

Drug manufacturer ALTANA Pharma Inc. has launched a $125,000 scholarship fund that will give one annual $5,000 scholarship in each of the five medical schools - including the University of Ottawa - to a student who is pursuing family medicine as a specialty.

EMBA students conducting business in Shanghai

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

Health is in the way you think and act

Researcher Louise Lemyre focusses on how people's normal functioning influences behaviour, stress, and state of health and wellbeing, especially when it comes to understanding and reacting to the environment.

Gala event honours distinguished Canadians

The second annual Distinguished Canadian Leadership Awards gala was held on October 19, 2004.

uOttawa students win top prizes in national geography competition

Three geography students at Canada’s university received top prizes in this year’s Great Canadian Mapping Challenge.

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Ig Nobel prize has human kinetics prof “in a spin”

If media attention can be described as head-spinning, then Ramesh Balasubramaniam's head must have felt like the hula hoops he once studied. Balasubramaniam's research on the “multi-segmented dynamics of hula-hooping” was chosen for a 2004 Ig Nobel prize.

For Jany and Antoine

The Faculty of Health Sciences held a commemorative ceremony for two of its students who died in traffic accidents earlier this year.

(Article in French only)

SSRA 2004-2005 board

The Support Staff Retirees Association presents its board of directors for 2004-2005.

School of Management honours alumni

On the occasion of its 35^th anniversary, the School of Management presented awards to four of its remarkable alumni.