Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, recently announced that two eminent members of the University academic community have been named Officers of the Order of Canada.
Engineering professor and uOttawa’s associate vice-president, research (External) Nicolas D. Georganas, and Dr. Antoine Hakim, professor and chair of neurology at the University’s Faculty of Medicine, will be invited to accept their insignia at a ceremony to be held at a later date.
For decades, Professor Georganas has been breaking new ground in the fields of collaborative virtual reality, interactive multimedia, computer networks and wireless communications for handheld Internet appliances.
Dr. Hakim has distinguished himself through his leadership of the Canadian Stroke Network. As a researcher, he has performed extensive work on cerebral vulnerability in stroke and studied conditions and factors that promote neuroprotection against ischemic damage.
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