Bad Chemistry at U. of Ottawa

The reactions haven't been positive to a new ad to recruit top science students to the University of Ottawa. The Ottawa Citizen reported that the Canadian institution is embarrassed because the ad features bad chemistry. Students are portrayed with beakers or test tubes, apparently engaged in science. One woman is seen standing in front of images of molecules. The problem is that the images of the molecules would be obviously flawed to even a high school chemistry student. Some of the superscripts in the ad should be subscripts, some of the subscripts should be superscripts, some atoms have too many bonds and some don't have enough bonds, professors told the newspaper. Also, the woman seen studying chemistry is actually studying occupational therapy. Another professor reported that colleagues at the University of Montreal were making jokes about chemistry at the University of Ottawa.