Useful Information & Resources

University of Ottawa
Lab Safety at uOttawa
  • Find information about uOttawa risk management, the training you might need, hazards and safety in research (read more)
  • Training and workshops you need before entering the lab:
          1. Lab Safety Training: register for the workshop
          2. Online course: take the course and test          
  • Find Materials Safety Data Sheets of the chemical product you are working with: MSDS resources
Undergraduate Research Opportunities
  • uOttawa Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, UROP (read more)
  • uOttawa CO-OP Programs (read more)
  • Undergraduate Student Research Awards Program (USRA) by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (​read more)
  • RISE Canada:  RISE is a summer student exchange program for undergraduate students in the chemical sciences, who will have completed the equivalent of two or three full years of study as of the end of the school year in which they apply. Read more...​
The Centre for Advanced Materials Research (CAMaR) is a new centre that will build on a collaborative research, education and training base at the University of Ottawa's Centre for Research and Innovation in Catalysis (CCRI), the Centre for Research in Photonic (CRP) and the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. CAMaR aims to bring together different sets of research skills leading to collective learning and innovation, thus addressing the challenge of creating new materials, with a focus on applications that can address environmental concerns and those that can Provide new strategies for health sciences. Read more...