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Dispatch: DNA research helps understand how the Americas were first populated

April 3, 2017 — 
Former U of M President, Emőke Szathmáry, still doing top-notch research

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NY Times: In Poland’s Crooked Forest, a Mystery With No Straight Answer

March 31, 2017 — 
U of M plant scientists discovered odd trees

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Scientific American: Growth Spurts May Determine a Lamprey’s Sex

March 30, 2017 — 
Understanding sex determination in lampreys will help us understand the evolution of sex determination in vertebrates.”

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Wpg Free Press: On the road after retirement

March 30, 2017 — 
Former race car driver and local lawyer reflects on his six-decade career

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Wpg Free Press: The kids’ diets are not all right

March 29, 2017 — 
'The fact we don’t know what Manitoba kids are eating is stunning, given that obesity and nutrition-related chronic diseases are skyrocketing and costing taxpayers a bundle'

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Daily Star: Are women better guardians of natural resources?

March 29, 2017 — 
'For the last few decades millions of small-scale activities undertaken by micro-lenders synergistically had a huge impact on the environment'

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Now Grenada: Grenadians and U of M Contribute to Conservation and Education

March 29, 2017 — 
Nicola Koper and her team were highlighted for their great work

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Globe and Mail: Canada’s best diversity employers welcome new voices

March 28, 2017 — 
Set an outstanding example of how Canadians make diversity our strength

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Ashley Richard receives her 2014 Manitoba Aboriginal Youth Achievement Award

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CBC: From the streets of Toronto to a business degree: How one Indigenous woman defied the odds

March 28, 2017 — 
Ashley Richard to graduate at the beginning of April from the University of Manitoba

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MIT News: Julien Barber: Protecting magnets and the environment

March 27, 2017 — 
'Where I grew up, it is below 0 degrees Celsius five months of the year.' Julien Barber, a first-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, is describing Winnipeg, Manitoba, where average temperatures do not rise above freezing from November to March

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