ResearchLife News Archive
![A photo collage of the words 'Transforming Agriculture' atop a drone and a circular image of a field.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/transforming-agriculture-main-image-150x150.jpg)
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Transforming agriculture
May 17, 2022 —
The University of Manitoba Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences has received $5 million in funding to help achieve its goal of becoming one of North America’s top crop research training institutions
![A sunset over a dirt road with swirling floral white embroidery superimposed on it and the words 'Taking up the work of reconciliation.'](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/reconciliation-feature-image-sunset-embroidery-150x150.jpg)
Research and International
Taking up the work of Reconciliation
May 17, 2022 —
How a new measuring tool based on research can push us further down the path to good and just relations
![People pump their fists in the air in front of a bright sun.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/chmr-heading-image-150x150.jpg)
ResearchLIFE
Centre for Human Rights Research
May 17, 2022 —
Celebrating its 10th anniversary with a new direction
![Dr. Digvir S. Jayas.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/digvir-jayas-150x150.jpg)
ResearchLIFE
Research leader
May 17, 2022 —
Distinguished Professor Dr. Digvir S. Jayas has served the university as Vice-President (Research) and Vice-President (Research and International) since 2009. His administrative term is ending in 2022.
![A black and white image of the underside of a tree that has been uprooted in a dense forest.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/grounded-perspective-main-image-150x150.jpg)
Research and International
Grounded perspective
May 17, 2022 —
Artworks connect to the natural world
![A photo where a hockey referee blows a whistle and points at the viewer.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/hockey-parents-referee-1-150x150.jpg)
ResearchLIFE
Hockey parents who yell at referees
May 17, 2022 —
Hockey referees are quitting in the province and, when asked, referees often state that spectator abuse is a reason for quitting.
![Counter-clockwise: Graduate students Sampath Liyanage, Valerie Beynon, and Byoungyoul Park operating the sputter system cluster tool used for material coating](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2015Nov6_DIL_2631-150x150.jpg)
The cleanest room on campus
February 16, 2016 —
Building micromachines that bend mirrors, sense electrical currents, and make small antennas act like big ones
![Frank Hawthorne](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/hawthorne1-150x150.jpg)
A true renaissance man
February 16, 2016 —
Frank Hawthorne’s research on the structure of matter is rock solid
![PhD student Ben Bailey-Elkin locates a protein crystal under the microscope](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/170354cwa0017-150x150.jpg)
New twist in an ancient fight
February 16, 2016 —
Removing bacteria’s defence gives us a new offence