Gazette
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Sustainability: Re-imagining our campus (Part 2)
Over the past few years, the Office of Campus Sustainability (OCS) has implemented major initiatives to make the University of Ottawa one of the most environmentally sustainable campuses in the country. |
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Parkinson’s patients face long waiting times for follow-up appointments and a bewildering array of hundreds of physiotherapy, geriatric and community care access centres. However, the Integrated Parkinson’s Care Network (IPCN), an initiative of uOttawa’s Brain and Mind Research Institute (uOBMRI), is testing new ways to streamline care, according to Dr. David Grimes, head of the Ottawa Hospital clinic for movement disorders. |
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“Bumblebees are declining incredibly fast,” says Professor Jeremy Kerr, University Research Chair in Macroecology and Conservation Biology at the University of Ottawa. He was commenting on the results of his research, which studied 67 species of bumblebees across North America and Europe and how climate change is critically affecting them. Kerr's cross-continental research is the first-ever analysis of how a large group of pollinators is responding to climate change. The research was published in Science magazine last week.
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