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COVID-19 information and screening.

Learn how we’re keeping our campus community safe, healthy and engaged during our gradual return to campus.
Note: The university’s mandatory vaccine directive is now in effect. Learn more about vaccine requirements.

Ontario Tech acknowledges the lands and people of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation.

We are thankful to be welcome on these lands in friendship. The lands we are situated on are covered by the Williams Treaties and are the traditional territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation, including Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. These lands remain home to many Indigenous nations and peoples.

We acknowledge this land out of respect for the Indigenous nations who have cared for Turtle Island, also called North America, from before the arrival of settler peoples until this day. Most importantly, we acknowledge that the history of these lands has been tainted by poor treatment and a lack of friendship with the First Nations who call them home.

This history is something we are all affected by because we are all treaty people in Canada. We all have a shared history to reflect on, and each of us is affected by this history in different ways. Our past defines our present, but if we move forward as friends and allies, then it does not have to define our future.

Learn more about Indigenous Education and Cultural Services

Careers

There is a growing global demand for health physics and radiation science specialists. Graduates have many career opportunities including:

  • Environmental protection;
  • Government regulation;
  • Health care;
  • Nuclear power plants; and
  • Research. 

Our have an excellent academic foundation if they wish to pursue further training for a career in hospitals and clinics. They can also find careers in:

  • Government agencies;
  • Natural resource industries
  • Nuclear service companies;
  • Nuclear utilities; and
  • Research institutions.

Careers in health physics and radiation science

  • Application of nuclear technologies in material science and sterilization of food and medical equipment;
  • Application of radiation in medicine (following suitable post-graduate training);
  • Environmental radiation monitoring;
  • Non-destructive testing and forensic analysis including carbon dating and art authentication;
  • Radiation detector development and the maintenance of national standards for radiation measurements and dosimetry;
  • Radiation protection in nuclear power plants and uranium mining; and
  • Radiation protection for public health and safety.