Faculty of Science

Pascal Audet and Andrew Pelling have been elected to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, as part of its fifth cohort. The college, created by the RSC, aims to recognize emerging research leaders at the outset of their careers. Read the full article. 

This summer, 11 students represented the University of Ottawa at the HOSA-Future Health Professionals International Leadership Conference (ILC) in Dallas, Texas. HOSA is devoted to providing university and high school students with an opportunity to explore their passions for healthcare. Read more.

Steve Perry completed his term as Dean of the Faculty of Science on June 30^th so we met with him to discuss his tenure of the last six years. Read the article.

A team of researchers led by Professor Roberto Chica has devised a way to bypass a long-standing biotechnological limit by engineering "flexible" proteins that can modify their structure to perform a desired function. Read the complete article.

Through its Strategic Partnership Grants Program, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) awards a grant to Xiaoyi Bao, Professor of Physics and Canada Research Chair in Fiber Optics and Photonics, for her research project on Fiber optic ultrasound generator and detector for high resolution ultrasound imaging.