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September

Taking flight: Testing the Wyp Wingboard in front of the nozzle of the powerful ACE Climatic Wind Tunnel.

September 30, 2016

Dr. Lisa Monchalin, faculty member, Department of Criminology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

September 30, 2016

Dr. Richard Marceau served as the university's Provost and Vice-President, Academic from 2005 to 2013.

September 30, 2016

Dr. Hamid Akbari, Assistant Professor, FBIT.

September 26, 2016

Pam Pratt (front row, far left) celebrates with fellow students of the Faculty of Business and Information Technology's inaugural class of the Graduate Diploma in Accounting program (August 2016).

September 26, 2016

September 23, 2016

Drumming at the UOIT-Baagwating Indigenous Student Centre at the university's downtown Oshawa location.

September 21, 2016

Pedestrians should avoid walking in designated construction zones in the Conlin Road and Simcoe Street corridor at the university's north Oshawa location.

September 21, 2016

September 19, 2016

Clean Energy Research Laboratory at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

September 15, 2016

Keynote speaker Simon Bates, Professor, University of British Columbia speaks at the UOIT Faculty of Science's Symposium for Effective Teaching and Learning in the Sciences (September 1, 2016).

September 15, 2016

Faculty of Science students are looking forward to the return of the UOIT Science Cafe on Saturdays, starting September 17.

September 15, 2016

Polonsky Commons, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, north Oshawa location.

September 14, 2016

Visitors explore UOIT's booth at the Ontario Universities' Fair.

September 14, 2016

President and Vice-Chancellor Tim McTiernan.

September 13, 2016

Anne Sabat (centre), with niece Sylvia Boissoin (right) and her husband Ron, in 2012 at the university’s donor wall unveiling in the Energy Systems and Nuclear Science Research Centre.

September 12, 2016

From left: Ainsley Leguard (President’s Scholarship); Sohaib Nadeem (FIRST Robotics Scholarship); Susan Allward, Associate Registrar, Student Awards and Financial Aid; UOIT President Tim McTiernan, PhD; Alyssa Williams (President’s Scholarship); Sivim Sohail (Founder’s Scholarship); and Nashelle Hird (Global Leadership Award).

September 12, 2016

September 9, 2016

Adele Imrie, Chair, Board of Governors, UOIT.

September 9, 2016

Dr. Atef Mohany, Associate Professor, UOIT Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, in the university's AeroAcoustics and Noise Control Laboratory.

September 9, 2016

FastStart student group celebrates capturing one of the $500 prizes from the Winter 2016 Pitch It! entrepreneurial competition.

September 8, 2016

2016 Student Research Showcase award winners (from left): Jacob Morra (Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science); Cameron Wright (Faculty of Health Sciences); Maria Victoria Navy (Faculty of Social Science and Humanities); Sara Kyriakopoulos (Faculty of Education); Devarsh Pandya (Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science); Sierra Dargan (Faculty of Science); Ralph Laite (Faculty of Business and Information Technology); Michael Owen, Vice-President, Research, Innovation and International.

September 7, 2016

Dr. Bill Kapralos (far right) as part of the invited international contingent attending 'Electronic Start-up: Industry 4.0 in Germany, Country of Innovation'.

September 6, 2016

Celebrating at Orientation with Stanley the Goose - the trophy presented to students of the faculty winning the university's annual Orientation challenge.

September 2, 2016

From left: Dr. Yuelei Yang, Senior Lecturer, FEAS; Kevin Luu (Mechanical Engineering); Daniel Henning (Automotive Engineering); Liam Ready (Mechanical Engineering); Dr. Atef Mohany, Associate Professor, FEAS. Inset image: Computer-aided design of Opal reconfigurable vehicle.

September 2, 2016

Delegates of the IEEE International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (August 21-24, 2016) gather near Polonsky Commons.

September 1, 2016

August

Dynamic testing of a race car in the ACE Climatic Wind Tunnel.

August 26, 2016

August 25, 2016

Orange construction sign on an Oshawa road

August 22, 2016

Jennifer Percival, PhD, Associate Professor, UOIT Faculty of Business and Information Technology.

August 18, 2016

August 17, 2016

Professor Jean-Paul Desaulniers (front row, centre, in white shirt) with Chemical Biology students at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China (photo courtesy: Abner Charles).

August 15, 2016

Students who graduate with a Data Science specialization will be equipped with the knowledge, skills and tools that will prepare them for success in the highly lucrative and desirable data science job market.

August 15, 2016

Dr. Roland van Oostveen, UOIT Faculty of Education (standing) in the Education Informatics Lab (EILAB) with Prof. Ann-Louise Davidson of Concordia University. The EILAB, under Dr. van Oostveen's directorship, has become a hub of collaborative, cross-institutional and international research directly informing development of the Fully Online Learning Community (FOLC) model, the focus of an award-winning paper.

August 11, 2016

August 10, 2016

Dr. Hossam Gaber, Professor, UOIT Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science (cross-appointed to the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science).

August 5, 2016

From left: Tim McTiernan, UOIT President and Vice-Chancellor; Anne O'Brien, Director of Education, Durham Catholic District School Board (inset: representatives of the university and school board at the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding, July 12, 2016).

August 4, 2016

July

UOIT will contribute its Big Data expertise to the Health Ecosphere Pipeline Project, a $34.5 million health informatics research program.

July 26, 2016

Bermuda High School students designed their own sailboats during their visit to UOIT.

July 26, 2016

Pokémon have been spotted at the university's downtown and north Oshawa campus locations.

July 22, 2016

From left: Dawn Regier, Asset and Sustainability Assistant (Nursing, class of 2016); Shannon Oletic, Project Planning Officer; Melissa Mirowski, Asset and Sustainability Planner; and Ijlal Gondal, Asset and Sustainability Assistant (Mechanical Engineering, class of 2016), OCIS.

July 18, 2016

July 14, 2016

July 12, 2016

July 6, 2016

June

Faculty, staff, students and community members cheered on the student-athletes at the Special Olympics Ontario Provincial School Championships basketball competitions held on campus June 1 and 2.

June 30, 2016

Tilapia is one of the most commonly raised fish species in aquaponic systems.

June 28, 2016

Virtual SurgerySIM's software trains surgeons to practice surgical procedures in a 3D immersive virtual operating theatre.

June 28, 2016

From left: Sustainable Engine Technology co-founders Tom Ross and Joshua Eidelberg,

June 28, 2016

UOIT President Tim McTiernan chats with UOIT Software Engineering student Ryan Nasara (Chief Marketing Officer, Henlen Watches), at the Ontario Centres of Excellence's Discovery Days event, May 9, 2016 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

June 28, 2016

Council of Ontario Universities' pop-up research park, Parliament Buildings, Ottawa (May 18, 2016). From left: Kim Rudd, Northumberland-Peterborough South MP; Elysabeth Reavell-Roy, UOIT PhD student (Applied Bioscience); Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Whitby MP.

June 24, 2016

Ed Waller, PhD, Professor, Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science (right) is among the UOIT researchers receiving new Discovery Grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

June 23, 2016

Below right: Province of Ontario news conference formally announcing plans for eastward extension of GO Train service through Oshawa and Courtice to Bowmanville (June 20, 2016). Inset photo courtesy: Sandra Austin, Regional Municipality of Durham.

June 20, 2016

The University of Ontario Institute of Technology's north Oshawa campus location is just three kilometres south of the new Highway 407 interchange at Simcoe Street.

June 17, 2016

A record 43 UOIT students will take advantage of outbound international exchange study opportunities in 2016.

June 16, 2016

Handbill for the UOIT Career Centre's 2016 I Launch My Career event on June 21, 2016.

June 15, 2016

June 15, 2016

June 13, 2016

Presentation of Canadian Acoustical Association Award at the 2016 Canada-Wide Science Festival in Montreal, Quebec. From left: Mervat Yehia, Chair, National Policy Advisory Committee, Youth Science Canada; Kevin Zheng and Marvin Giang, O'Neill CVI, Oshawa.

June 10, 2016

From left: Roger Anderson, Chairman and CEO, Region of Durham; Karim Mamdani, President and CEO, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences; Don Lovisa, President, Durham College; and Tim McTiernan, President, UOIT receive funds raised during this year’s Roger Anderson Charity Classic golf tournament.

June 10, 2016

June 10, 2016

Commuter traffic crawling along Toronto's Gardiner Expressway

June 9, 2016

Natural gas fuelling station.

June 8, 2016

Science Rendezvous participants watch as elephant toothpaste overflows during a demonstration.

June 7, 2016

Khalil El-Khatib, PhD (standing), Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business and Information Technology (FBIT) provides instruction to visiting students participating in FBIT's inaugural High School Week initiative.

June 6, 2016

Post-Convocation celebration (June 2015). Below right: Chancellor Noreen Taylor.

June 6, 2016

Students, faculty and staff gathered in front of the flag poles at the north campus location, where they were joined by representatives from community partners including PFLAG Durham and the AIDS Committee of Durham Region.

June 3, 2016

May

The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario chats with Dr. Brendan MacDonald, Assistant Professor, UOIT Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science during a tour of the university's Clean Energy Research Laboratory (May 20, 2016).

May 31, 2016

Electric vehicle charging at ACE during the inaugural AJAC EcoRun event at UOIT in May 2012.

May 31, 2016

We Grow Trees challenge participants learned to nurture a tree from seed to sapling.

May 24, 2016

Jean Nsanzeryaka will become the University of Ontario Institute of Technology's first graduating refugee student at Convocation on Friday, June 10.

May 19, 2016

NORCAN student delegates participate in a math and science enrichment day, hosted by UOIT's Faculty of Education on May 4.

May 19, 2016

June MacDonald-Jenkins, Collaborative Nursing program faculty member.

May 17, 2016

Signing of Memorandum of Understanding with Beijing Polytechnic University (BPU), China (from left: Wang Hui, Director, Foreign Affairs, BPU; Glenn Harvel, Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science, UOIT; An Jiangying, Vice-President and Professor, BPU; Michael Owen, Vice-President, Research, Innovation and International, UOIT; Xiuji Xu, Dean, Economic Management College, BPU; Zhu Yunli, Dean, Automation Engineering Institute, BPU).

May 11, 2016

Panel session on mobility and transportation issues at the 2016 UOIT Forum on the Future of Smart Communities.

May 10, 2016

UOIT Nuclear Engineering students gain hands-on experience in the university’s Nuclear Simulation Lab.

May 10, 2016

Arlene de la Rocha (at podium) receives HUB Fellowship from the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario's annual general meeting in Toronto, Ontario.

May 9, 2016

March Break Maker Camp participants used the LittleBits snapable circuit kit to create a flashlight.

May 6, 2016

Noreen Taylor, CM, Chancellor, University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

May 4, 2016

May 3, 2016

The University of Ontario Institute of Technology hosts its annual Futures Forum on Thursday, May 5, focusing this year on Smart Communities.

May 2, 2016

May 2, 2016

April

Science Rendezvous promotes science awareness for all ages.

April 29, 2016

UOIT Commerce students Nicholas Kirkton, Jordan Mackali, Justin Mathew, William Lee and Gianfranco Ingratta took second place in the two-day LIVE case competition.

April 28, 2016

April 27, 2016

April 26, 2016

Online learning participants at Kyiv National Economic University, Ukraine.

April 25, 2016

UOIT students take part in the 2016 Level Up Student Games Showcase at The Design Exchange in downtown Toronto (April 6).

April 22, 2016

Parliament Buildings, Ottawa.

April 19, 2016

There are many different career opportunities available to graduates of HR programs.

April 19, 2016

April 18, 2016

April 13, 2016

UOIT President and Vice-Chancellor Tim McTiernan (left) signs Memorandum of Understanding with Professor Rajinder Singh Bawa, Vice-Chancellor, Chandigarh University.

April 12, 2016

Legal Studies student Cherlene Cheung, class of 2016. Image courtesy: UOIT Athletics.

April 12, 2016

April 11, 2016

April 11, 2016

Panelists at The Role of Universities in Reconciliation event, held at Regent Theatre on March 17.

April 8, 2016

Margaret Trudeau speaking March 30 at UOIT's Regent Theatre at the Dean's Public Lecture Series hosted by the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities.

April 6, 2016

GameCon 2016 will take place April 12 at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

April 5, 2016

Cybersecurity expert David Millier signs his book, Breached!, at a recent event hosted by the UOIT Networking and IT Security Students’ Society.

April 5, 2016

Megalai Thavakugathasalingam (Master of Health Sciences candidate), 2016 champion of UOIT's Three Minute Thesis competition.

April 1, 2016

March

Master of Science (Computer Science) candidate Adele Hedrick (far right) with some of the other UOIT students who attended the 2016 Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing Conference.

March 31, 2016

2016 UOIT Research Excellence Awards Speaker Series, Science Building (March 23, 2016).

March 30, 2016

Projects on display at the 2014 Durham Regional Science Fair held at UOIT.

March 30, 2016

Lake Superior shoreline.

March 28, 2016

Inaugural Walking Wednesdays walking meeting at Polonsky Commons (March 9, 2016).

March 24, 2016

University of Ontario Institute of Technology, north Oshawa location.

March 23, 2016

Lecture at University of Ontario Institute of Technology's north Oshawa location.

March 23, 2016

UOIT student delegation at the Canadian Nuclear Association Conference and Trade Show in Ottawa, Ontario (February 2016). Below right: Yue (Eddy) Zhou (Bachelor of Engineering in Nuclear Engineering, class of 2016); Dr. George Bereznai, Professor and Director, Industry Training Program, FESNS; Eric Choi (Master of Applied Science in Nuclear Engineering, class of 2017).

March 22, 2016

CBC's Rick Mercer (middle) tries to control the robot of the team from Trafalgar Castle School (Whitby, Ontario) at the FIRST Robotics Canada event March 12 at UOIT and Durham College.

March 22, 2016

Finalists from the 2015 3MT competition at UOIT.

March 21, 2016

March 17, 2016

The University Trading Challenge includes a case competition, as well as investment banking, portfolio and trading challenges.

March 16, 2016

PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist, a retro-inspired 2D action-adventure game, rose to the top of the App Store and Google Play charts just hours after launching simultaneously on iOS and Android. UOIT’s Dr. Pejman Mirza-Babei, Assistant Professor, FBIT collaborates with Execution Labs, an early-stage investor that works with burgeoning game studios, to oversee user research and playtesting for game projects like this one developed at the Labs.

March 16, 2016

From left: Networking and IT students Imraan Ali Rahemtulla, Suleman Ali, Safwan Alam, Anthony Mitri and Danish Shaikh volunteered at the NBA All-Star Game on February 14 in Toronto, Ontario.

March 16, 2016

Dr. Salma Karray, Associate Professor, FBIT.

March 16, 2016

March 14, 2016

Haida eagle feathers (image courtesy of Mammomax7432 @DeviantART).

March 14, 2016

2016 Bootcamp Awards first-place team (Integrity Browser). From left: Benson Naman, second-year Human Health Science; Ahmad Touseef, third-year Electrical Engineering; Andrea Kennedy, Spark Centre Advisor; Desai Sagar, third-year Software Engineering.

March 8, 2016

Action from the FIRST Robotics Canada competition in March 2015.

March 2, 2016

Dr. Brad Easton, Associate Professor, UOIT Faculty of Science receives NSERC Strategic Grant for fuel cell research.

March 1, 2016

PrecisionHawk team prepares UAV for extreme-weather testing in the ACE Climatic Wind Tunnel.

March 1, 2016

February

Celebrating UOIT student success at the 2016 Graduating Students Challenge (Campus Recreation and Wellness Centre).

February 25, 2016

Hunter the Ridgeback helps the Healthy Workplace Committee celebrate the university's second-consecutive Healthy Workplace Award from the Regional Municipality of Durham.

February 25, 2016

February 24, 2016 is World Anti-Bullying Day.

February 23, 2016

Front row: UOIT President Tim McTiernan (far left) and DC President Don Lovisa (far right) signed memorandums of understanding with Modi Edutech Chairman Alok Modi (centre) on February 1 at a ceremony in New Delhi. Back row, from left: Hon. Michael Chan, Ontario Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and International Trade; Hon. Brad Duguid, Ontario Minister of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure; and Hon. Dipika Damerla, Ontario Associate Minister of Health and Long-Term Care.

February 22, 2016

UOIT Ridgebacks win their first-round OUA playoff series against Queen's.

February 22, 2016

UOIT's Ontario Engineering Competition Senior Design Team. From left: Shivang Rai; Madison Bratina; Jean-Paul Basacchi; Dr. Tarlochan Sidhu, Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science; Jonathon Buisman. (below right: OEC trophy)

February 18, 2016

Cover image from Dr. Pierre Côté's two-year study Enabling Recovery from Common Traffic Injuries: A Focus on the Injured Person.

February 18, 2016

February 18, 2016

Chancellor Noreen Taylor

February 17, 2016

February 11, 2016

From left: Janette Hughes, PhD, Canada Research Chair in Technology and Pedagogy; Sheldon S. Williamson, PhD, Canada Research Chair in Electric Energy Storage Systems for Transportation Electrification.

February 9, 2016

Dr. Marc Rosen, Professor, UOIT Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

February 8, 2016

Chris Grol, Student Development Specialist, Indigenous Programming, UOIT-Baagwating Indigenous Student Centre.

February 4, 2016

Spinning in the ACE Climatic Wind Tunnel UOIT.

February 4, 2016

Inaugural Science Café, January 23, 2016.

February 2, 2016

Artistic representation of the Huronia Regional Centre, located on a corridor wall inside the building.

February 2, 2016

January

The Burlington, Ontario-based Joyce Foundation makes $1 million cheque presentation to the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (January 28, 2016).

January 28, 2016

Natural gas fuel station

January 28, 2016

Dr. Victoria Smye, Associate Professor, FHS and Director of UOIT's Nursing program, was the primary author of a new online education program for nurses and other health-care professionals who work with people living with mental illness. The curriculum was formally announced on January 15.

January 27, 2016

January 25, 2016

Team Sort of Awesome of the First Nations Junior and Senior School of Toronto puts its LEGO robots to the test at the 2016 FLL Ontario East Provincial Championships.

January 22, 2016

John Shaw, who teaches in the UOIT Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science's Advanced Operations Overview for Managers program, provides instruction in the university's Nuclear Simulation Laboratory.

January 22, 2016

January 21, 2016

Insignia representing a Member of the Order of Canada.

January 15, 2016

January 15, 2016

UOIT health informatics researchers found that the Oshawa Clinic's automated vital signs data collection process saves clinicians more than 18 seconds per patient; that’s nearly 30 minutes saved for every 100 patients monitored.

January 15, 2016

Emancipating the municipality: Community-directed development and the structural reform of governance will take place at the Regent Theatre in Oshawa, Ontario on Wednesday, February 10.

January 14, 2016

UOIT Science Building

January 13, 2016

January 13, 2016

Nearly 400 students (ages nine to 14); more than 1,000 parents, siblings and coaches; and 200 volunteers, judges and referees will come to campus on January 16 for the FIRST LEGO League’s (FLL) Ontario East Provincial Championships.

January 12, 2016