by Courtney Rodriguez Second-year Faculty of Medicine students from uOttawa raised over $48,000 at the ninth annual Shave for a Cure event held on Friday, February 24, at Lansdowne Park during an Ottawa 67’s home game. St. Baldrick’s Foundation hosts
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Dr. Stan Matwin is a professor at the University of Ottawa’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, where he directs the Text Analysis and Machine Learning (TAMALE) Laboratory. The author and co-author of 250 refereed papers, he has worked
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On February 9 and 10, academics from Canada, Finland, Switzerland and the United States gathered at the University of Ottawa for a forum on the subject of language immersion at the postsecondary level. The participants discussed the models that
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University of Ottawa engineering student Jimmy Ly has been selected by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) as a winner of the 2012 André Hamer Postgraduate Prize for his research, which may greatly decrease factors that lead to
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What are the chances the human of tomorrow will have an organ that we currently don’t? Imagine a new organism with four small lungs, an IP address and a Twitter account. University of Ottawa professor Andrew Pelling’s research shows that
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As members of the teaching or support staff, you are well placed to identify the noteworthy contributions of your colleagues. We are therefore asking you to bring the skills and dedication of these individuals and teams into the spotlight by
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The Student Academic Success Service (SASS) and Health Promotion offices recently joined forces to launch an animal therapy pilot program for University of Ottawa students. This initiative allows individuals who may be experiencing anxiety or living through difficult or stressful
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The four line poem next to Myrtha Lapierre’s 1959 nursing graduation photo reads “De Haïti au Canada/Elle est venue notre Myrtha/Son courage et son sourire/Ont su nous conquérir.” As the 75-year-old woman reads the prophetic words out loud, she reflects
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A recent Statistics Canada lifestyle study showed that young Canadians spend an average of 8.6 hours per day doing sedentary activities. Although we are well aware that life in society as we know it today often means us spending several
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