Faculty of Science

An inaccessible cave preserved clues to Jamaica’s climate past in the sedimentary layers of bat guano.

For Daniela Quintero, a female researcher and international student, COVID-19 has meant the loss of her father, a situation that has tested her perseverance in science. Daniela is a Mexican candidate to PhD in Geology who studies the role of bacteria in mineral formation under environmental conditions.

Researchers at the University of Ottawa have debunked the decade-old myth of metals being useless in photonics – the science and technology of light – with their findings, recently published in Nature Communications, expected to lead to many applications in the field of nanophotonics.

The University of Ottawa Library awarded 2021 OER grants to Prof. Elaine Beaulieu and Prof. Anne Broadbent.