uOttawa wants to keep its crown again this year as the university faces off against more than 600 post-secondary institutions around the world during an eight-week competition called RecycleMania. In order to win, participating institutions must prove that they can
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University of Ottawa student Raunak Raj Karmacharya, recipient of a J. Armand Bombardier Community Service Learning Award from uOttawa’s Centre for Global and Community Engagement, has been finding ways to apply his academic experience to achieve his goal of practising
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University of Ottawa students now have a new way to access all of their course information. The Blackboard Mobile Learn app is available as a free download for Apple, Android, Blackberry, HP webOS and Palm devices. It allows uOttawa students
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The University of Ottawa is happy to have just been named one of the National Capital Region’s Top 25 Employers, in a competition now entering its ninth year. The competition recognizes Ottawa-area employers that lead their industries in offering exceptional
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In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI) and the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Ottawa, along with the Office of the Commissioner of
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Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California were taken over by Canadians in January for a three-day, coffee-fuelled “code sprint,” a software programming event organized by Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects (UCOSP). Among the 43 Canadian students at the event were
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I ask the question as a Canadian scholar of Arab descent keen to learn more about the history of this community in Canada, the diversity within its culture, its contributions to social and political life, its hopes and aspirations, as
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After Anna Soper heard from teachers and members of the Ghananian community that most students in Ghana had never seen a computer, she set out to make a difference. Previously a volunteer in Ghana, Soper felt the need to go
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In the spirit of this year’s Grammy Awards, we celebrate some of our own University of Ottawa musical geniuses and learn what really inspires them. Name: Louis Trépanier, guitarist Accomplishments: Member of the Canadian Guitar Quartet, published arranger and composer.
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“I had loved being part of the mentorship program during my first year and thought it would be great to give back to the program and help students with their very own transition to university,” says Jennifer Viscosi, one of
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