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
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 tools like Google Docs. An
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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
The University of Ottawa’s graduating visual arts class has been hard at work for the past eight months, transforming the studios at 100 Laurier into a professional exhibition space. The more than 30 artists have been creating unique pieces of art
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Posted in: Article, Department of Visual Arts, Events, Faculty of Arts, Student Stories
John has chills, a headache and muscle pains. Last time he was ill, it took several days to get an appointment with his physician, so this time he tries another approach to get a doctor’s opinion. He fires up his
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If you were asked to predict what the world of work will look like in 2040, how would you describe it? For Sinan Nasir, winner of the Focus 2040 competition, it’ll be a world similar to that of an ant
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Posted in: Article, Faculty of Engineering, Student Stories, Telfer School of Management
In the famous book, Through the Looking Glass, the Red Queen says to Alice, “it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” It is a strangely fitting analogy for many things in biology, but
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Posted in: Article, Blogs, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Research, uOttawaExpert blog
“I’m gonna pop some carbs, only got a lil’ glucose in my pathway….” These lyrics to the tune of Macklemore’s Thrift Shop are indeed awesome. Written and recorded as part of a song contest at the University of Ottawa, third
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The results from the RecycleMania 2013 competition are in! The Office of Campus Sustainability is proud to announce that the University of Ottawa garnered first place among Canadian universities—for the fifth year in a row! For more information, please visit
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Posted in: Article, Campus life, Student Stories, Sustainable Development
“As soon as I introduced myself and began telling the story of this young man who took his life 12 years ago, the person on the other end of the line fell silent,” explains class giving officer Fabrice Wanji, from
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Posted in: Alumni, Article, Development office, Faculty of Medicine, International
