After combing through the numbers from Food Services, it’s obvious that coffee plays a major role in keeping the university running! Last year, coffee consumption on campus totalled 182,784.3 litres, or enough to fill roughly 4,060 Toyota Echo gas tanks.
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The uOttawa chapter of Students Offering Support (SOS) is once again looking to help raise uOttawa students’ marks through its “Exam-AID” group review sessions, taught and coordinated by student volunteers for fellow university students. Students donate $20 when they enter
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The scientist If you ask Pierre Berini what his laboratory studies, he will tell you he has spent over a decade exclusively researching plasmons, collective waves of electrons that easily couple to light when they ripple on the surface
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On December 14, 2008, while on a UN peace mission in Niger, Robert Fowler, his assistant and their driver were kidnapped by Al-Qaeda. The book, A Season in Hell: My 130 Days in the Sahara with Al Qaeda, not only
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From 1889—the year in which the University received its pontifical charter—to the institution’s restructuring in 1965, the prestigious position of chancellor was held systematically by Ottawa’s Catholic archbishop. Msgr. Joseph-Thomas Duhamel, a former College of Bytown student in 1848, was
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What’s it like working at uOttawa? We want to know! The University has just launched its 2011 Employee Experience Survey. This survey provides all University administrative staff and full-time academic members with an opportunity to have their voices heard. Although
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A ceremony marking Remembrance Day took place on November 11 at the University of Ottawa to honour the memory of the men and women who fought and served during world conflicts. Alumni Josée Kurtz, commander of the destroyer HMCS Halifax
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Updated, October 22, 2012 As of Monday, students on campus have a new, delicious dining option on campus, as Première Moisson opens an outlet in the new Social Sciences Building. “Première Moisson shows our commitment to improving the quality of
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As co-chairs of the 2011 United Way Campaign at the University of Ottawa we wanted to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU to all of you who have so generously donated to this year’s campaign. We are pleased to
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