Faculty of Science
There is no better time than now – join science’s limitless future and be part of the impact!
A setting where science thrives
Dedicated professors, renowned researchers
The Faculty of Science has more than 160 full-time professors who teach and lead cutting-edge research. On the strength of our national and international reputation, $37 million per year are awarded to our researchers in grants and research contracts. This funding represents an accolade for the Faculty’s leadership in science and as an investment in our collective future. Our professors devotedly share their knowledge for research with their students, even beyond the classroom. The faculty’s professors consistently distinguish themselves in their teaching and their research, recognized to national and international heights.
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We offer programs that will expand your knowledge of the environment and shape your perception of yourself as a living being.
Academic support
uOttawa contributes to global amphibian conservation effort
uOttawa scientists uncover light absorbing properties of achiral materials
The search for the earliest traces of life on Earth
Student life and services
At the Faculty of Science, we recognize that the transition from high school or CEGEP to university represents a major challenge for you. That's why we have support services for our new students.
Research
The Faculty of Science has become a true center of excellence in research through its world-class professors as well as its programs and infrastructure in Biology, Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, and Physics.
The research accomplished by its 160 internationally recognized professors, its approximately 500 graduate students and its dozens of postdoctoral researchers and visiting scientists has positioned the Faculty of Science as one of the most research intensive science faculties in Canada. Faculty of Science researchers are undertaking more than 400 research projects and contracts, totaling over 37 million dollars annually. Our professors have received many international and national awards including three NSERC Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal winners and numerous Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. We are home to a Canada Excellence Research Chair, 20 Canada Research Chairs and 15 University of Ottawa Research Chairs.
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Faculty of Science Strategic Priority Fund
The Faculty of Science brings together some of the best minds in the world and provides them with the specialized technology they need to make life-changing discoveries. Curious, inventive and never satisfied with the status quo, our faculty members probe the mysteries of science and turn their discoveries into advances in fields such as medicine, telecommunications and green chemistry. Outside the lab, many of our professors undertake field research across Canada and around the world.
Your support will enable our faculty, students and staff to defy the conventional, and find game changing solutions to the challenges Canada will face in the next decade.
Join us in strengthening our teaching, our research and our service.
Alumni and Friends
More than 5700 students in undergraduate and graduate programs in five departments.
Contact us
Office of Undergraduate Programs
Gendron Hall
30 Marie Curie, room 172
Ottawa, ON, Canada
K1N 6N5
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Email: infosci@uOttawa.ca
Office of Graduate Studies
Gendron Hall
30 Marie Curie, room 181
Ottawa, ON, Canada
K1N 6N5
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Email: gradsci@uOttawa.ca
Office of the Dean
STEM Complex, room 302
150 Louis-Pasteur Pvt
Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5
Tel.: 613-562-5985