The City of Ottawa has officially proclaimed May 10th University of Ottawa Alumni Day! With over 80,000 alumni working and living in the area, Mayor Jim Watson is calling upon citizens to celebrate the important contributions our alumni make to
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What does management research have to do with public education? You might be surprised. Lagging performance in Brazil’s public schools led the Instituto de Co-Responsabilidade pela Educação (ICE; a Brazilian NGO) to pilot a school redesign program that included “enriching”
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Posted in: Article, Blogs, International, Research, Telfer School of Management, uOttawaExpert blog
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
Third time’s the charm for Yvan Albert. The long-time uOttawa employee is officially retiring this year after 33 years of service. It will be his third attempt at hanging up his hat. “The first time I retired was in 1996,”
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At the upcoming Destination 2013 gala that celebrates uOttawa Alumni Week, the dedication that alumna Renee Black [MA Public and International Affairs ‘09] has shown in empowering NGOs through the use of technology will be recognized with the uOttawa Alumni
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Posted in: Alumni, Article, International, volunteering
On March 22, the University of Ottawa held its first Three Minute Thesis competition. Graduate students were invited to present their research to a panel of judges within a strict time limit—a second over three minutes and they would be
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Posted in: Article, Department of Chemistry, Destination 2020, Faculty of Engineering, Research, Student Stories
After months of fundraising for pediatric cancer research, Faculty of Medicine student “shavees” enjoy a post-shave photo op at the tenth annual Shave For a Cure.
Back row, from left: Ethan Newton, Omar Abdel-Razek, co-organizer Steven Gravelle, Charles Pickard, Matt
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In 1995, Professor Ellen Zweibel introduced the first experiential learning program at the Faculty of Law through a pilot program that eventually became a mandatory first-year course. The course broke ground in both its teaching methods and its subject area
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Posted in: Article, Common Law Section, Destination 2020, Faculty of Law
On May 13, 2013, uOttawa student email is going Google. This means every student will now have 25GB of inbox storage, a simple way to sync their mobile devices, chat tools, calendars, enhanced spam filtering and access to easy-to-use collaborative
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Posted in: Article, Destination 2020, Student Services, Student Stories
Should we imprison? Who ought to be incarcerated? For how long? Under what conditions? And for what purposes? These questions have troubled individual and collective imaginations the world over for many centuries. In each society, answers to these questions are
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Posted in: Article, Blogs, Department of Criminology, uOttawaExpert blog
