Headliners Archive
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September 2010 |
- Four of our students hired for the House of Commons Page Program
Mireille Boivin, Vanessa Russell and Chantal Elikplim A Sordzi from the ISHS, and Zoé Campbell from the SHK, are among the forty new pages in the House of Commons. The pages take on various supportive tasks, attend debates and link members to their Hill offices. For these students, this year will be an opportunity to learn about the House of Commons while witnessing the legislative process first hand.
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June 2010 |
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- Professor in the School of Nursing, Annette O'Connor has been appointed Distinguished University Professor in 2009-2010. This title is conferred to faculty members in recognition of exceptional scholarly achievement, pre-eminence in a particular field of knowledge and a solid teaching record.
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April 2010 |
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- A graduate from the University of Ottawa and employee since 2005, Sonia Fournier is the Assistant Academic Advisor at the Undergraduate Studies Office of the Faculty since may 2008.
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| Already recipient of the 2009 Administrative Staff Award of Excellence of the Faculty, she was recently awarded with the 2009 Administrative Staff Award of Excellence of the University. Congratulations Sonia ! |
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- Academic Assistant at the Graduate Studies Office of the Faculty since 1996, Lise O'Reilly has been a University's employee for 37 years. " When I first started to work for the School of Human Kinetics,
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we only had 35 students in our program, and now they are more than 150 !" Lise has just been awarded with the 2009 Administrative Staff Award of Excellence of the University. Congratulations Lise ! |
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March 2010 |
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- Student in Master of physiotherapy and fifth year captain of the Gee-Gees hockey team, Christine Allen has been nominated by the Quebec conference for the Marion Hillard Award of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS). The Award is presented to reward excellence in the student-athlete. The recipient exhibits
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| outstanding achievement in three areas: hockey, academics and community involvement. Christine has decided to serve her community with children "When I was a child, no female hockey player encouraged me. I would have loved it ". She has been trying to make hockey more popular among girls. Unfortunately Christine receive the award, but one should know that she was among only 4 candidates across Canada. Congratulations Christine ! |
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January 2010 |
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- New elected Quebec representative on the executive board of the Canadian Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (CANAC), Marilou Gagnon, assistant professor at the school of nursing, has successfully defended her
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doctoral thesis on December 9th. In the upcoming year, she will be completing her postdoctoral studies with Act-Up Paris, a community-based organization known for its social and political involvement in the field of HIV/AIDS. After her return in March, she will be pursuing her research on HIV/AIDS while working with Professor Namaste, a sociologist at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute (Concordia University).
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December 2009 |
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- The Faculty of Health Sciences is certainly making its presence felt in Gee-Gees varsity sports! Twelve of the 19 players on the women's hockey team come from Health Sciences, including captain Christine Allen, who's doing her master's in physiotherapy. What's more, all three schools at the Faculty—Nursing, Human Kinetics and Rehabilitation Sciences—as well as the health sciences program are represented on the squad.
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October 2009
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Monday, October 4
Athlete of the week (football)
Third-year quarterback Brad Sinopoli had a 435-yard game on Saturday to give the Gee-Gees a 27-25 victory at Laurier.
The Peterborough, Ont., native was 23-35 with 341 yards passing, including touchdown passes to Steven Hughes and Alex Fortier-Labonté.
Sinopoli, a third-year Human Kinetics major at the Faculty of Health Sciences, also added 94 yards rushing on 11 carries, including a 29-yard rush to the end zone late in the second half for a touchdown.
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Monday, October 4
Athlete of the week (soccer)
Fourth-year midfielder Élise Desjardins scored two goals in two games this weekend, including the game-winning goal on Sunday versus Nipissing.
The Cumberland, Ont., native was one of seven players who scored a goal on Saturday when the Gee-Gees defeated Laurentian 7-0.
Desjardins, a Human Kinetics major at the Faculty of Health Sciences, scored again in the 72nd minute of play on Sunday to give the team their eighth victory of the season by a score of 4-1 over Nipissing.
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June 2009 |
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Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, assistant professor at the School of Rehabilitation Sciences just received a CIHR New Investigator Award for her project "Towards an Understanding of the Consequences of Mild Bilateral and Unilateral Childhood Hearing Loss". She was ranked second out of twenty seven candiddates in the allied health professionnals category. Congratulations Elizabeth !
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May 2009 |
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- Susan Bratjman is among a group composed of University of Ottawa professors and others experts from the Ottawa region that has won the prestigious Alan-Blizzard Award. Launched in 2000, the prize is designed to encourage and honour those whose exemplary teamwork in university teaching has helped improve the effectiveness of student learning. To know more...
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April 2009
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- Congratulations to our Faculty colleague Sylvie Corbeil, staff member at the School of Nursing, who has won the University of Ottawa Award of Excellence for Management and Professionals. Sylvie will receive her award on May 4th at the Founders' Breakfast.
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March 2009
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- Dr. Ivy Bourgeault has been named chair holder of a prestigious Canadian Institute of Health Research Chair entilted "Unpacking the Contextual Influences on Health Human Resources Planning through Comparative Reseach and Conceptual Modelling" Read more...
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February 2009
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- Chantal Gosselin, a 4th year student in Human Kinetics and student mentor for 2 years now, is the recipient for this year's CIBC Mentorship Program Scholarship. Congratulations Chantal !
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- Dr. Andrée Durieux-Smith has just been nominated Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences for her exceptional contributions at the University of Ottawa at the departmetal and university levels. See the Dean's message, Dr Denis Prud'homme.
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