Protection Services use the Geographic Information System (GIS) to assess various technological needs such as the optimal placement of surveillance cameras. Geography student Yannick Lanthier was hired to help implement the system.
Law professor Ian Kerr is leading a major international research project worth $4 million over four years to investigate all aspects of anonymity, identity and authentication in a world rapidly being overtaken by global electronic networking.
If you happen to subscribe to Chinese astrology and be part of the University of Ottawa, you could be forgiven for adding an entry for a year like 2003 – the Year of the Brand.
Research now under way at the Community Health Research Unitin the University of Ottawa's School of Nursing might someday yield a more effective means of treating problem gamblers.
Eight pupils from the remote Northern Quebec community of Kangiqsualujjuaq are receiving 60 minutes of piano instruction per week as a result of a music department initiative.
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
Canada's university continues to play a leadership role in Canada's federal government. Prime Minister Paul Martin's cabinet, announced December 12, includes three University of Ottawa alumni.
The University of Ottawa Heart Institute Board of Directors appointed Dr. Robert Roberts as its new President and Chief Executive Officer on December 19. He will officially succeed Dr. Wilbert Keon on April 1, 2004.
The newly appointed Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa, Dr. Dominique Arel recently gave his inaugural lecture entitled “Ukraine: A Return to Europe?”
Psychology professors, Richard Clément and Susan M. Johnson-Douglas, have been elected as fellows of the American Psychological Association (APA) for 2004.
A graduate of the University of Ottawa won the European Best Localisation Thesis Award, sponsored by international Internet security technology company Symantec.