MEDIA & PUBLICITY

running in ottawa

written by priya narine, university of ottawa sports services, 2020 March 9

Jenn Dumoulin is a PhD student who has been running for 8 years. She discovered her love for running when she finished her master’s thesis and found herself with free time. A friend suggested that she try running, and she has loved it ever since. She went on to join the University of Ottawa’s varsity track and field and cross-country team where she competed for about 3 years.

Jenn has continued to share her love of running with the uOttawa community by working as an instructor for our stride to success program. Stride to success is a 6-week running based program offered to students, employees and external members. Keep reading to learn what Jenn has to say about running and stride to success.

Nathalie Cote working hard to make Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club great

written by: Martin cleary, the ottawa sun, 2019 september 23

As interim president, Cote established a nomination and governance committee of four people, including respected athletics people like John Halvorsen and Leslie Estwick. More than a dozen names were put forward and 11 people with a wide variety of professional backgrounds were elected to the new board and charged with rebuilding the club’s trust and image.

The board, which also consists of Jennifer Dumoulin, vice-president; Christopher Benk, treasurer; Zeena Rashid, secretary; Kirk Dillabaugh, coaches’ rep; Derek Brougham, athletes’ rep; and directors at large Gordon Cave, Dave Farthing, Eleanor Fast, Lynn Thompson and Sammie Brennan, held a mini retreat last Saturday to create an action plan.

IS a PhD really worth your time and money?

WRITTEN BY: ERIC DAVIDSON, THE FULCRUM, 2017 NOVEMBER 14

“By all accounts, demand for a specific field of study affects if a PhD leads to a job. But one student says it’s foolish to let that be the deciding factor. Dumoulin says that whether or not there’s a clear demand for her specific area of studies, studying the use of metaphor in fiction to discuss diseases like HIV/AIDS, she plans to take an entrepreneurial approach and show her desired employers why they do, in fact, need her skills after all.”

Student so obsessed with The Rock she's 'dating' a life-size cutout of him that she takes to dinner and weddings

WRITTEN BY: ANNABEL HOWARD, THE MIRROR, 2017 JANUARY 25

“They have been on various dates - such as playing Pokemon Go and the gym - and have even been invited to social occasions as a couple by supportive friends.” […]

"I thought about the kind of things I'd do with a boyfriend, then applied it to my cardboard boyfriend, we do the things you normally do in a relationship.”

Recent Queen's Law graduate pays it forward in program for teens

Written by: Matthew Shepherd, Queen’s Law, 2015 June 2

“There was a call for applicants over the Christmas break, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to try teaching,” Dumoulin says. Teaching, it turns out, has been a subject of interest for some time. “I was very inspired by my high school Law teacher – we’re still in touch – and I remember thinking when I started law that one day I’d love to return to teach it,” she says. Her ambitions have changed since then, but guest speaking in high schools remains a goal.”

Law student wins national military award

WRITTEN BY: COMMUNICATIONS STAFF, QUEEN’S LAW, 2014 SEPTEMBER 17

“For Jennifer Dumoulin, Law'15, winning a prestigious Canadian essay competition isn’t just a personal triumph – it’s a tribute to her upbringing. Dumoulin was recently selected by a jury as the winner of the Sword & Scale essay contest, an award established by the National Military Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) to promote and reward interest in military law topics in Canadian law schools.”