Events
Campus Sustainability & Decarbonization
We’re back with our science encounters! A big thank you to Faizal Sudoollah and Jonathan Rausseo for their informative discussion on campus sustainability and decarbonization.
We’re back with our science encounters! A big thank you to Faizal Sudoollah and Jonathan Rausseo for their informative discussion on campus sustainability and decarbonization.
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 looking at sex and gender in cardiovascular disease. There seems 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 by Professor Richard Thompson. Microplastics refer to small fragments of 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 and running water. His town was in the middle of 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 are affected by depression and each year almost 800,000 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 chemical engineering PhD student, Yolanda Pessanha, informed us all as 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 highlighted the fact that she is a woman and an 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. If you aren’t already aware, textiles produce a lot of 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 explained her specific path to completing a Ph.D. while having Read more…
Science Education through a Psychological and Social Lens: Hedy Lamarr’s Impact