A possible link between the language you speak and your health?

Louise Bouchard, co-director of RRASFO and professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa, has taken an interest in this issue for many years. “Results from secondary analyses and national health surveys show that Ontario’s minority Francophones are reporting they’re in poorer health,” explains Bouchard, who teaches in the population health PhD program. “Among other characteristics, they’re showing signs of greater body mass than the majority, and that means more obesity and more chronic diseases.”

Women’s Worlds 2011 in social media

uOttawa medicine professor dedicated to addressing health needs of the homeless

 We help get them off the street, we control their consumption of alcohol, and we let them learn to be independent,” he says. “They may still be drinking, but at least we know it’s not paint thinner, and it is, on average, one ninth of what they were drinking before.”

Commemorating fifty years of oral contraception in Canada

This Man’s Pill: Reflections on the 50th Birthday of the Pill is a personal narrative in which Djerassi reveals how the pill changed the reproductive lives of women worldwide. He commented that his reasoning behind the title was that the birth control pill also “changed the behaviour of many men” and had a major impact on his own life.

The NHL at a crossroads: A time for transformation and leadership

The failure of the Thrashers is the latest evidence that the NHL is at a similar crossroads to the one recently faced by GM. A new vision must redefine the league’s future, and that vision should look north.

uOttawa in social media this week (July 14)

uOttawa receives $30 million from the Ontario Government to expand its library and student spaces

The renovated Morisset Library will greatly enhance the quality of student life and will create a better learning environment.for students.  The project will add infrastructure for broadcasting lectures and seminars online, with ten innovative multimedia classrooms.

uOttawa engineering celebrates 25 years

uOttawa’s All Science Challenge crowns this year’s winners

For the last four years, Let’s Talk Science has been hosting the All Science Challenge in Ottawa.  This daylong, science based competition brings together teams of students from grades 6 to 8 for a series of science challenges, from quiz style questions to hands-on building challenges.

Vote mob organizer and uOttawa communications student Elizabeth Dubois is Oxford-bound!

Along with her friends, the communications student organized a vote mob to mobilize her peers and to encourage them to vote on May 2. To make the biggest impact possible, they put together a short video montage of highlights from their event. In only a few days, the video was viewed more than 14,000 times on YouTube.

From Kabul to uOttawa: student seeks resolution to Afghan conflict through communication

Born in 1977 in northeastern Afghanistan, Farouq Samim is now a University of Ottawa master’s student studying organizational communication. Though he’s thousands of kilometres from his country of birth, he spends most of his time studying and analyzing the Afghan conflict. He wants to find a way to help stabilize the political situation in Afghanistan—a formidable challenge.

Reception to honour spring convocation volunteers

Reception in honour of all those who generously volunteered their time at Spring Convocation 2011.