Pianist, music lover and distinguished politician, Mitchell Sharp (D.U. 70), who died in March 2004, bequeathed his beloved Steinway grand piano to the Department of Music. In what has become the Mitchell Sharp Studio, in Perez Hall, music students will be able to use the famous piano for rehearsals.
Because new information technology services appear regularly on the University’s computer networks, it might be easy to take these updates for granted. However, the people at Computing and Communications Services (CCS), who create and install these functions, know that a structured and managed approach is essential in their work.
United Nations Under-Secretary General and Special Advisor Maurice F. Strong delivered the inaugural address in the New Thinking Lecture Series on Health and the Environment sponsored by the Delphi Group and the University of Ottawa, on February 10, 2005.
When he sold some equipment to three Akwesasne schools, Mark Gareau, Manager of the University of Ottawa’s Multimedia Distribution Service, had no idea that he would be opening new horizons for the province’s Native students.
University of Ottawa professors are playing a key role in two new local health centres: the Heart Health Education Centre (HHEC) and the Shirley E. Greenberg Women’s Health Centre.
Beginning in September 2005, the Conference Board of Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, is establishing the CIBC Scholar-in-Residence Research Chair.
The University of Ottawa’s Excellence in Education Prizes recognize educators of exceptional quality who provide outstanding teaching, while maintaining a solid research program.
Among the most enduring images of scientific education is that of the young biologist peering at a specimen through a microscope, then turning to a notebook to draw a tidy picture of the invisible world seen through this instrument. To biology professor Jon Houseman that image is far too romantic.
Nathalie Des Rosiers, dean of the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section, and Michel Prévost, chief archivist at the University of Ottawa were named persons of the year by Le Droit / Radio-Canada.
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