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Latest News and Events

2011

• The Faculty of Arts is proud to announce that two of its professors, Michael Behiels of the Department of History and France Martineau of the Département de français, have been elected as Fellows in the Royal Society of Canada (RSC),the highest academic accolade available to scientists and scholars in Canada.

• Partnership between the Language Technologies Research Centre and the School of Translation and Interpretation.

• Professor David Staines named to Order of Canada.

• Professor Shana Poplack in the Department of Linguistics was awarded the Royal Society of Canada Pierre Chauveau Medal.

• QS World University Rankings 2011 placed the University of Ottawa on the list of best reviewed schools in the world for the field of Linguistics and Philosophy.

• "Hold On" launched in Mumbai June 1. An exhibition curated by the Chair of the Visual Arts Department Celina Jeffery, it also features uOttawa students Chris St. Amand and Jen Hamilton.
  

• Read how the research of Ghulam Farouq Samim, an MA graduate student in communication, is being used by foreign forces to learn how best to consult with local Afghan leaders.

• Discover how Robert McLeman and Eric Crighton, two professors in the Department of Geography, each saved nearly an entire tree last semester by using only an iPad! Their simple app.

• Did you know - The Museum of Classical Antiquities, open in the summer for this June, Tuesday to Friday 1-4 pm. Come and visit us!

• Congratulations to Jean-Stéphane Roy, professor at the Department of Theatre, who received the Prix d’excellence artistique avant-scène 2011! (Article in French only)

• Geography Professor Konrad Gajewski is this year’s recipient of the Faculty of Arts Professor of the Year Award.  Congratulations!

• Professor Rebecca Margolis from the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is this year’s recipient of the Young Researcher of the Year Award.  Congratulations!

• Professor Anahi Alba de la Fuente from the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is this year’s recipient of the Faculty of Arts Part-Time Professor of the Year Award. Congratulations!

• Master's in Information Studies celebrates its first cohort.
  

• Two professors from the Department of Theatre were recognized with Les Prix Rideau Awards 2010

  Joël Beddows was recognized as best director for Swimming in the Shallows, which was also designated as best Anglophone production of the year while Jean Stéphane Roy was recognized as best director for Les Médecins de Molière, which was also designated as best Francophone production of the year. Congratulations!

• Geography Professors Eric Crighton and Robert McLeman were named recipients of the  Excellence in Education Prize. This prize recognizes the outstanding quality of teaching and a strong research program. Congratulations!

• The Faculty of Arts is pleased to announce the opening of Gallery 115: Annex, located on the 6th floor of the Morisset library. The first exhibition to be shown, will take place from April 1 to June 17, 2011.

• Geneviève Cadieux, former student at the Department of Visual Arts receives the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.  This award is Canada's foremost distinction for excellence in visual and media arts.

• The uOttawa team led by professors Marc Charron and Charles Le Blanc of the School of Translation and Interpretation won the sixth Translation Games. Congratulations.

• Professor France Martineau of the Département de français has received a major $2.5 million grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) in support of a large-scale study on francophones in North America.

• The Faculty of Arts is very proud to announce that three of its professors, Emma Anderson, Peter Bischoff and Lucie Joubert, are among the four finalists selected for the Canada Prize in the Social Sciences (in French). The Canada Prize honours the best scholarly books in Canada.

• Professors in the Faculty of Arts were remarkably successful in the last Standard Research Grants competition at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). I am proud to announce that of the 54 projects submitted, 25 projects were funded for a total amount of $ 1 534 390. Our success rate of 46% is well above the national success rate which is at 29.8% this year. This sum can be added to the $2.5 million which was recently awarded to France Martineau for her Major Collaborative Research Initiative.
  
  Congratulations to all of the researchers who make our Faculty an environment of excellence. Congratulations also to Lori Burns and Lesley Strutt who, through their mentoring, made this competition a success.
  
  
• The University of Ottawa has recognized Douglas Moggach as Distinguished University Professor.  Professor Moggachis the holder of the University Research Chair in Political Thought (Faculty of Social Sciences) and a professor in the Department of Philosophy (Faculty of Arts).  The Distinguished University Professor title is conferred to him in recognition of exceptional scholarly achievement, pre-eminence in his field of knowledge and a solid teaching record. Congratulations.
  
  
• Professor Heather Murray from the Department of History won the 2011 Lawrence W. Levine Award for her first book entitled “Not In This Family". This award is given by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American cultural history. Congratulations.
  
  
• Professor David Staines receives the Order of Ontario.
  
  
• Meet the six Department of Theatre students who wrote, directed, filmed, edited, produced and acted in the film Turning Points, premiering at the Gladstone Theatre January 28-29. 
  
  
• Emeritus professor Marcel Trudel dies
  The Faculty of Arts is saddened by the passing of Marcel Trudel an eminent historian who specialized in New France and former Department of History professor. The entire Faculty community is united in offering its sincerest condolences to the family and friends of Mr. Trudel.

2010

• Seymour Mayne's selected poems rendered into Hebrew by Moshe Dor has been chosen to receive the J.I. Award for the Translation of a Book on a Jewish Theme. This major collection by the poet is entitled Fly Off into the Strongest Light: Selected Poems (Keshev Publishing House).
  

• Andrew Donskov, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and the University of Ottawa Press have gained a victory for Canadian scholarly publishing, obtaining the English-language rights to the contentious, unpublished memoirs of Leo Tolstoy’s wife, Sofia Tolstoy
  

• Counterpoints: Edward Said’s Legacy, edited by May Telmissany (professor of cinema and Arabic studies) and Stephanie Tara Schwartz (Ph.D. candidate), was recently published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  

• The Faculty of Arts is proud to announce one of its Department of History professors has won the inaugural Antonio Zampolli Prize from the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations for is exceptional outstanding contributions to digital humanities. Professor Gaffield is also the president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
  

• Professor Lori Beaman, of the Department of Classics and Religious Studies, has been awarded $2.5 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) as part of the Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (MCRI) program.

• "Beyond the classroom"
  Our communication and music students will take advantage of this new initiative through a partnership between the University of Ottawa and Astral.

• Daniel Castillo Durante, professor in the Département de français, is one of three finalists for the literary prize, the Christine-Dumitriu-van-Saanen Award.  The winner will be announced December 8, 2010 at the Toronto French Book Fair.

• Anna Lewis of the Department of English is one of this year's Polanyi Prize recipients.

• Dean Antoni Lewkowicz was recently named Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in recognition of his contributions to research on permafrost. He also received a grant for the Society Expedition of the Year to support fieldwork on the impact of climate change on permafrost in the southern Yukon and northern British Columbia. During the expedition, Dr. Lewkowicz was accompanied by two students from the Department of Geography, Christina Miceli and Maxime Duguay.

  Their blogs of the trip are at:
   
  - Christina Miceli
  - Max Duguay

• Congratulations to Jordan Kelsay Tronsgard for obtaining the Pierre Laberge Prize and to Stephen Quinlan for obtaining the Governor General's Gold Medal for best doctoral thesis in humanities at the University of Ottawa.

• Professor Daniel Castillo Durante from the Département de français elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

• The Faculty of Arts is proud to announce one of its Department of History professors has won the inaugural Antonio Zampolli Prize from the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations for is exceptional outstanding contributions to digital humanities. Professor Gaffield is also the president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

• Department of Communication alumna Lisa LaFlamme will take over Lloyd Robertson's chair as CTV's top news anchor in mid-2011.

• Soul Heart

  Mélissa Laveaux, graduate student in Ethics and Society at the Faculty of Arts, released her first album “Camphor & Copper”, a mix of blues, folk and Haitian rhythm!

• Department of History Professor Béatrice Craig awarded the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize

  Professor Béatrice Craig was awarded the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize by the Canadian Historical Association for her book: Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada, judged to have made the most significant contribution to an understanding of the Canadian past.

• Jean-Pierre Wallot, 1935 – 2010

  The Faculty of Arts is saddened by the passing of Jean-Pierre Wallot, renowned historian and former National Archivist.  Mr. Wallot was director of the Centre for Research on French Canadian Culture from July 2000 to December 2006.  The entire Faculty community is united in offering its sincerest condolences to the family and friends of Mr. Wallot.

  A memorial service will be held on September 11, 2010 at 2 p.m. in l'Église Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, 45 Prévost Street in Gatineau.  Friends may visit at the Coopérative funéraire de l'Outaouais, 95 Cité-des-Jeunes Blvd. in Gatineau, on Friday September 10, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. and on Saturday, September 11, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
• Barrhaven’s Catholic Secondary School to be named in honour of Pierre Savard a renowned historian

  Le Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est announced that the first French-language secondary school in Barrhaven has been named after the historian and much-missed colleague at the Department of History, Pierre Savard, a model for young Franco-Ontarians in search of a cultural identity!

• Professor Jeff Keshen receives the June Callwood Award. The Faculty of Arts congratulates Professor Jeff Keshen, recipient of the June Callwood Outstanding Achievement Award for Volunteerism.
• America's films, Quebec's voices: Double-dubbing and the reasons behind it. Professor Luise von Flotow, who is fascinated by "double-dubbing," studies the motivations for it as well as the results of double-dubbing.
• Professor Brenda Macdougall named as newly established Chair in Métis Studies.
• University of Ottawa, La Cité collégiale and Algonquin College announce the creation of two new programs at the Faculty of Arts.
• Professor Lori Beaman, of the Department of Classics and Religious Studies, has been awarded $2.5 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) as part of the Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (MCRI) program.
• The Faculty of Arts will offer new undergraduate programs with a special focus on the French language in the fall of 2010.
• The School of Translation and Interpretation (STI) has received $1.7 million in funding through the Government of Canada’s Canadian Language Sector Enhancement Program (CLSE).

• Simone Davis, an English and Theatre student, is recipient of the 2009-2010 CIBC Mentorship Program Scholarship. Congratulations.
  
  
  
  

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  Department of Geography student Robert Way featured in Canadian Geographic

  The story, "The cryosphere kid," gives a detailed account of research on permafrost.
  
  

• Professor Shirley Thomson to receive Order of Ontario

  Professor Shirley Thomson from the Department of Visual Arts is among the 29 new appointments to the Order of Ontario, the province’s highest honour, announced on January 25, 2010 by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, the Honourable David C. Onley.

• A great ambassador of the French language passes away

  The University of Ottawa is saddened to learn of the passing of Françoise Lepage, author and a professor at the Département de français for more than 10 years. Read more

• Professor Jean Stéphane Roy will become the next Director of the Théâtre la Catapulte, succeeding Joël Beddows as of July 1st, 2010.
• Distinguished University Professor Shana Poplack elected fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.
• The Department of English welcomes Montreal-based poet Erin Moure as a writer-in-residence for Winter 2010.

2009

• Professor Irene Makaryk receives the Filip Konowal VC Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement for Ukrainian studies for founding the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa and for her scholarly activities.
• Charles Le Blanc, professor at the School of Translation and Interpretation of the Faculty of Arts, is finalist for the 2009 Governor General’s Literary Awards for his essay Le complexe d’Hermès !
• Luke Copland, professor at the Department of Geography of the Faculty of Arts, receives the President’s Award for Media Relations
• The Faculty of Arts’ School of Music is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
• Distinction de l’Ordre des francophones d’Amérique et Prix littéraire Émile-Ollivier: Liliane Vincent and Daniel Marchildon, two graduates of the Faculty of Arts, see each other rewarded for their contribution in French language. (article in French only)
• The Faculty of Arts’ Centre for Research on French Canadian Culture receives the Prix du 3-Juillet-1608
• Annie Brisset, professor at the School of Translation and Interpretation and the Department of Theatre, has been elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her exceptional achievements in the areas of sciences and arts & humanities!
• The Prix Marcus is presented to Joël Beddows, professor at the Department of Theatre, for his significant contribution to French-language theatre.
• Professor Daniel Mroz from the Department of Theatre is part of the team who has won the prestigious Alan Blizzard Award. Congratulations.
• The chaotic universe of Andrew Morrow, MFA visual arts student, amazes the gallery from Toronto to Ottawa.
• A Canadian first at uOttawa: health communication course goes online
  
  A new master's-level course in health communication has been launched for spring and summer 2009 on the Blackboard Vista site by Dr. Rukhsana Ahmed, assistant professor at the University of Ottawa's Department of Communication. This is Canada's first online graduate course in health communication. Read more ›
• Congratulations to Professor J. Douglas Clayton who has been awarded the 2009 Faculty of Arts' Professor of the Year Award.  This award recognizes a professor who excels in the three areas of teaching, research and service to the university community.
  
• Congratulations to Professor Mawy Bouchard who has been awarded the 2009 Faculty of Arts' Young Researcher of the Year Award.  This award recognizes the outstanding achievements of a researcher or artist who is in the early stages of his or her academic career.
• David Castle, associate professor at the Department of Philosophy receives more than $5 million for genomics research.
• Department of Geography Professor Luke Copland will embark on a scientific cruise to the Antarctic with 10 students. For those interested in following their trip, you can view daily updated photos, videos, blogs and more. [External site]
• Congratulations to Professor Seymour Mayne, who has been awarded the 2009 Louis Rosenberg Canadian Jewish Studies Distinguished Service Award for his lifetime achievement in literary scholarship, poetry and translation and his central role in founding and directing the Vered Program in Canadian Jewish Studies.

2008

• Department of Geography Dr. Luke Copland and a team of scientists report massive ice shelf loss
• University of Ottawa announces the creation of a research chair in journalism ethics.
• A new institute to study the social impact of science and technology innovations
• Pierre Anctil, director of the Canadian Studies Institute and professor in the Department of History receives Killam Research Fellowship.
• Professor Sonia Sikka from the Department of Philosophy has been awarded a Faculty Training Fellowship from the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.
• Communication Professor Boulou Ebanda de B'béri awarded one million dollars to study historical amnesia and black Canadian settlements.
  
  
  
  

• The impact of telemedicine on human interaction – Luc Bonneville, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication, is researching the impact of these technologies on the medical field.

2007

• Faculty of Arts geography professor Luke Copland part of critical team studying glaciers and climate change.

• Snapshot of francophone minorities, Anne Gilbert, professor in the Department of Geography, studies “national” minorities, such as the franco-ontarian community.

• By the Book – Professor Aline Francœur is uncovering the hidden wonders of dictionaries.

• The Ties that Bind – Sonia Sikka, Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy comes full circle with her past.

• Three Department of Communications' professors receive funding for Northern research.

• Professor Shana Poplack awarded the Trudeau Foundation Fellows Prize

• Dr. Sam Shemie wins major award for work in organ and tissue donation research

• University of Ottawa professor and linguist Shana Poplack to receive $100,000 Killam Prize

• Professor Jitse Dijkstra awarded Brill Research Fellowship

2006

• Research Chairs in Canadian Francophonie
• Three new Research Chairs in Canadian Francophonie have been awarded in 2006. The program aims to solidify the posotion of the University of Ottawa as a leader in the field of research on Canadian and North-American francophonie.

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