Canada’s largest marathon takes place on May 26 as part of the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend. Among the 6,200 runners is uOttawa student Briana Hill, who is graduating with a Bachelor of Social Sciences in Conflict Studies and Human Rights.
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We’ve all liked some managers and disliked others. In the latter case, we may have thought of going off and starting our own business. This can be great. To get your clients, you may need a website to attract them
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Ninety percent of 2-year-olds regularly watch television/DVDs/videos, with infants under 2 watching an average of 1.5 hours of video per day. These numbers are perhaps unsurprising considering the amount of visual entertainment geared towards young children. Yet, major child health
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Michèle Kérisit Those who knew Michèle Kérisit describe her as having led a full and inspiring life, one devoted to helping women through her research on immigrants and refugees, survivors of armed conflict, and Francophone women in Ontario. The late
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Isabelle Boutet Psychology professor Faculty of Social Sciences Could you give us a concrete example of a change you’ve made to a course after reading your students’ evaluations? In my child development course, students pointed out that it would be
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For the past four years I have had the pleasure of being involved with over 40 researchers from across Canada and the U.S. in the At Home / Chez soi Demonstration Project, the largest social experiment on homelessness in the world.
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An experience abroad is more than a plane ticket. Beyond the borders of my classroom, there is a world to explore and people who need our help. Last summer, I went on two international trips: Guatemala City in July and
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Posted in: Alumni, Article, Destination 2020, Faculty of Social Sciences, International, Student Stories, volunteering
Breanna Abraham is a fourth-year student completing her bachelor of social sciences in international development and global studies (DVM). During her final semester, she is participating in an independent internship with the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) in Ethiopia. From Bahir
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This blog was co-written by Patti Lenard (English) and Christine Straehle (French). Quietly, the Canadian government is shifting its immigration priorities towards admitting thousands upon thousands of temporary labour migrants every year. More and more of these migrants are admitted
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On November 1st, the Social Sciences and Arts faculties unveiled the Photographic Herbarium, a permanent collection of 37 works of art on the second floor of the new Social Sciences Building. Located in front of the living wall, the collection
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