As part of its constant effort to improve both service and quality levels across campus, Food Services undertook the task of finding the right partner to deliver food services across campus in the coming years. In January 2012, a committee
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Posted in: Article, Campus life, Food Services
The results from the RecycleMania 2013 competition are in! The Office of Campus Sustainability is proud to announce that the University of Ottawa garnered first place among Canadian universities—for the fifth year in a row! For more information, please visit
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Posted in: Article, Campus life, Student Stories, Sustainable Development
Alex Forest and Merissa Mueller, who work for the Office of Campus Sustainability, along with classmate Pascale Ménard, have transformed their fourth-year mapping project into a useful tool for the University community. The geography students created an interactive online map
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Posted in: Article, Campus life, Department of Geography, Destination 2020, Student Stories
After extensive consultations with students and campus stakeholders, a new version of uoZone is now live, and students are invited to be part of the test team! The University has received student’s comments about what they would like to see
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Sixty University of Ottawa United Way volunteers were pleasantly surprised when Mathieu Fleury, the Ottawa United Way Campaign co-chair joined them for the volunteer appreciation dinner. Fleury is not only a uOttawa alumnus with a BSc specializing in physical fitness,
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Posted in: Article, Campus life, Human Resources, volunteering
You may have heard that Ottawa’s Light Rail Transit project will affect almost everyone’s commute to uOttawa. Parking and Sustainable Transportation is vailable to answer your questions about carpooling, transit, biking and other options for getting to and from uOttawa.
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It must be said: the winds of major change are blowing across the University of Ottawa campus! While the university draws its strength from its deep roots and traditions, it also reflects our constantly changing society, focusing on the latest
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Posted in: Alumni, Article, Campus life
We’ve seen it. We’ve heard it. We may even have done it. The Harlem Shake has infiltrated the World Wide Web with short video clips of people performing this comedic routine to the music of American DJ and producer Baauer.
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“Once you start rowing, you don’t really stop,” says Jennifer Bowen, who had no experience in the sport when she first joined the University of Ottawa rowing team. “You train every day so that you can push yourself past your
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The sun shines through the large windows of the office, beaming off her solid wood desk and showcasing the intricate aboriginal art that hangs from it. The walls are covered in books, a reflection of who she is as linguist,
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Posted in: Article, Bilingualism, Campus life, Destination 2020, Francophonie, International, uOGlobal, volunteering
