News archives
August
Be aware of construction zones around UOIT's north Oshawa location
August 29, 2014
As a new academic year begins at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, students, faculty and staff should be aware of ongoing road construction projects around the university’s north Oshawa location.
Roving library assistance at North Oshawa Library
August 28, 2014
Beginning Monday, September 8, the North Oshawa Library will offer roving library assistance on the first, second, and third floors between the hours of 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 3 to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Poll position: UOIT researcher weighs voters’ dilemma in 2014 Toronto mayoral race
August 26, 2014
For the last few years the City of Toronto has proven to be a very complex political arena. With election day (Monday, October 27) drawing closer, voters are getting a steady diet of mayoral candidate poll results – tallies which are often contradictory and perhaps serve to sustain the rhythmic beat of political rhetoric.
Whitby Library reopens on September 2
August 20, 2014
The Campus Library branch located at the Durham College Whitby Campus will reopen on Tuesday, September 2.
Submit workshop position papers for CHI PLAY conference
August 20, 2014
Researchers, professionals and students passionate about games and human-computer interaction (HCI) are invited to submit workshop position papers for the 2014 Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY) conference.
UOIT Game Development students win programming award at Ubisoft competition
August 15, 2014
Proving once again that they have what it takes to make it in the video game industry, fourth-year Game Development and Entrepreneurship students from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology's (UOIT) Faculty of Business and Information Technology (FBIT) received six nominations and one award at the fourth-annual Ubisoft Academia Game Lab competition.
UOIT buildings receive awards for urban design excellence
August 15, 2014
The University of Ontario Institute of Technology’s (UOIT) Automotive Centre of Excellence (ACE) was recently recognized for its architecture and urban design excellence with an award from the City of Oshawa.
University’s green efforts highlighted in COU report
August 12, 2014
The University of Ontario Institute of Technology is leading the way in environmental sustainability through its research programs and the energy efficiency improvements it is implementing across campus, according to a report from the Council of Ontario Universities (COU).
Faculty of Science researcher profiled in Canadian Science Publishing
August 11, 2014
Dr. Andrea Kirkwood, Associate Professor, Faculty of Science at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology’s (UOIT), was recently featured in a Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) blog post, the first in a series about Canadian women in science. The post talks about Dr. Kirkwood’s personal experiences, and explored the factors that can help or hinder a woman’s science career.
UOIT faculty member’s workshop equips students to end bullying
August 11, 2014
At least one in three adolescent students in Canada having reported being bullied, according to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Jennifer Laffier, an expert in bullying behaviour among children and adolescents at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), has developed program - Hero Power versus Coward Power© - to empower children and put an end to bullying.
FBIT holds 2014 Capture the Flag cybersecurity competition
August 08, 2014
Posing as malicious hackers or security consultants, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) Networking and Information Technology (IT) Security students put their skills to the test while trying to hack into and to remove vulnerabilities from an enterprise network as part of the third-annual Capture the Flag information systems security competition.
UOIT training camp prepares high school students for international biology competition
August 08, 2014
A training camp hosted at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) was key to helping four Canadian high school students bring back medals from the International Biology Olympiad (IBO), held in Bali, Indonesia from July 6 to 13.
Dr. Carolyn McGregor’s research profiled in Australian media
August 07, 2014
Australia's Daily Telegraph recently published an article highlighting some of the health-monitoring projects led by Dr. Carolyn McGregor, Canada Research Chair in Health Informatics at Ontario Tech University.
The university's Strategic Mandate Agreement
August 07, 2014
The Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities has published on its website the Strategic Mandate Agreements (SMA) from all Ontario universities and colleges. These agreements were confidential until the government completed its assessment.
