Debaters from across the country, as well as two teams from Yale University, converged on uOttawa on January 24 to complete a debating marathon: 24 debates in 24 hours—non-stop—to raise money for Waves of Mercy, an NGO based in Langkawi, Malaysia.
As part of International Week, January 24 to 28, 2005, international students from 47 national and ethnic groups offered live performances, food tastings and other activities to promote the multicultural nature of the campus.
A team of researchers from the Centre for University Teaching (CUT) recently received $550,000 from Ontario’s Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities that will fund a project to assist the integration of professors from other countries teaching at the postsecondary level in Ontario.
All members of the University community, as well as the general public, are invited to submit nominations for the 2005 University of Ottawa Distinguished Canadian Leadership Awards (DCLA).
Ottawa’s technology companies numbered 1,688 in December 2004—an increase of more than six per cent—and employment increased by 600 people, to 67,800, over the previous six months.
Research that bridges engineering with medicine will be the highlight of the 2005 University of Ottawa Research Showcase, which takes place on February 22, 2005 at the Smyth Road campus.
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
Neuroscientist Leonard Maler has spent his career studying how fish use electric fields to find their way around. He is the seventh Distinguished University Professor.
Lucie Mercier-Gauthier's new responsibilities include the management of four sectors: financial planning, supplies and services, systems and training, as well as accounts.
Professor David Sankoff, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Genomics at the University of Ottawa, was awarded the 2004 Weldon Memorial Prize.
Isabelle Perreault has often been considered a pioneer in the professional arena. But she also has a few significant successes in the real boxing arena . . .
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