UOttawa reopens admissions to Greek and Roman program after international outreach

The University of Ottawa has reopened admissions to its Honours BA in Greek and Roman Studies. Earlier this Fall, the university announced that it was pausing admissions and engaging in an overhaul of the program, citing low enrolment. UOttawa Department of Classics and Religious Studies Chair Dominique Côté explained that the decision to resume admission […]

Students at several postsecondary institutions are reporting that they can see the impacts of budget cuts on their student experience. CTV News reports that budget reductions have impacted studies and student life at Québec institutions like Concordia University and McGill University. In British Columbia, the Okanagan College Students’ Union recently met with college leadership to […]

ShanghaiRanking has released its Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2025, which assesses institutions from around the world according to 57 subjects across five broad disciplines. Canadian institutions that appeared in the top 25 for at least one subject included McGill University, Simon Fraser University, Université de Montréal, the University of British Columbia, the University of […]

The Canadian Space Agency has announced over $2.2M in funding for 16 research projects focused on the effects of spaceflight on human health. Projects will be focused on better understanding chronic conditions such as bone density loss and cardiovascular disease. These projects will be led by researchers from postsecondary institutions such as McGill University, Simon […]

The University of Ottawa has partnered with France Universités—which represents French universities and institutions of higher learning—to create a France-Canada campus at UOttawa. The campus’s goals include strengthening academic and scientific cooperation between the countries; maintaining a French presence in Canada’s capital; and promoting movement of administrative staff, students, and professors between institutions in both […]

Times Higher Education has released its 2026 World University Rankings, which assessed 2,191 institutions from 115 countries and territories. Overall, University of Oxford remained in first place, followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology in second place and Princeton University and the University of Cambridge tied for third. In Canada, the top three universities were University […]

Several postsecondary institutions have announced special events or shared resources this week in light of World Mental Health Day. Assiniboine College, the University of Ottawa, and Western University held special fairs and events focused on wellness. Assiniboine is bringing representatives from various wellness organizations to campus, while UOttawa and Western held events with institutional resources […]

The University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management has partnered with the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security to provide public sector and critical infrastructure leaders with professional development. This partnership expands the offerings available at the uOttawa-IBM Cyber Range with new crisis simulation exercises, a simulation scenario catalogue, professional training, talent development programs, and more. […]

Two research projects—one led by McGill University and one led by researchers from the University of Alberta and University of Ottawa—have each received $10M from the Weston Family Foundation for health research projects. Both projects are multi-year initiatives. At McGill, Dr Pedro Rosa-Neto will lead a project focused on identifying biomarkers associated with Alzheimer’s disease. […]

The Government of Canada’s Canadian Institutes of Health Research and its partners have invested a total of $44.8M into projects that will support healthy brain aging. The majority of this funding will support the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging’s Operations Centre and 16 new Canadian research teams focused on dementia. These include researchers from […]