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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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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A unique large-scale study and partnership led by the University of Ottawa has won the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Partnership Award for work identifying crucial health and social needs of neighbourhoods in Canada’s capital. The Ottawa Neighbourhood Study,
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Our society’s many taboos concerning most aspects of our sex lives certainly haven’t put off Jocelyn Wentland—she’s studying the topic as part of her PhD dissertation in experimental psychology. What’s more, the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality recently published her
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Adam Moscoe, a third-year psychology student at uOttawa, is one of the two Ottawa residents recently named to Canada’s Top 20 Under 20 for the innovation, leadership and achievement he has displayed in his community outreach work and youth engagement.
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