Le génie au service des femmes : Rethinking the Faces and Spaces of Engineering

We recently had a chance to learn more about sex and gender in cardiovascular research with Amy Johnston.  Johnston is looking at risk factors associated with disease. For example, how smoking can cause cardiovascular disease. In this case, they are Read More

We all know plastic pollution is a global problem. Well, we recently had the opportunity to learn more about the microplastics and their effects on marine and human life. So, what are microplastics? The term microplastics was introduced in 2004 Read More

We had a wonderfully emotional time watching and discussing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. This film is an inspirational true story of William Kamkwamba, a boy from Malawi who built a wind turbine to help his town gain power Read More

Thanks to Professor Nafissa Ismail and graduate student Kevin Smith, we had the opportunity to learn how stress in adolescents can lead to mental illnesses, such as depression and anxiety. Did you know that globally more than 300 million people Read More

Our first event of the 2019-2020 school year was a success with a room filled with people interested in knowing how they can help reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in our oceans. During the hour long session Read More

As we sat in a circle with Dr. Donna May Kimmaliardjuk, she told us about her path to getting into medicine and heart surgery, stating that her grandfather’s passing was what initially sparked her interest in medicine.  Dr. Kimmaliardjuk specifically Read More

On April 10, 2019, Dr. Pendo Nandiga Bigambo, a mechanical engineer from the University of Dar es Salaam visited the University of Ottawa and took the time to tell us about her project that uses nanoprocessing technology to reduce waste. Read More

Dr. Handan Tezel offered us the opportunity to get to know her a bit more and to better understand the process of becoming an engineering professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Ottawa. She Read More

Science Education through a Psychological and Social Lens: Hedy Lamarr’s Impact