Not just another fish tale: is there a difference between aging and getting old?

The Experimental Lakes Area in Northwestern Ontario, where research on ageing is underway

Not just another fish tale: is there a difference between aging and getting old?

January 14, 2022 —
Some creatures don’t age in the same way that humans do, implying that getting old does not necessarily lead to declining health

Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Research and International

Three new Canada Research Chairs

January 12, 2022 —
Chairs in nutrition, health economics and extreme astrophysics

Canada Research Chair, Dr. John Ataguba, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Faculty of Science, Human Nutritional Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Research and International, science research

The emergence of variants of concern in late 2020 marked a shift in the COVID-19 pandemic. // Image from Shutterstock

University of Manitoba receives highest ever research funding

December 10, 2021 —
A total of $231 million in grants and contracts was delivered to UM to support research in every discipline

Research and International

an iceberg in open water with hazy clouds surrounding it

Rainfall in the Arctic will soon be more common than snowfall

November 30, 2021 —
Changes will happen decades earlier than previously thought

centre for earth observation science, CEOS, climate change, Environment Earth and Resources, Taking on Climate Change

Artists's impression of a kilonova, by A. Simonnet

Neutron stars hold key to cosmic mysteries

October 29, 2021 —
The work of UM astrophysicist Dr. Samar Safi-Harb was featured in a major article in the October 2021 issue of the popular science magazine Astronomy.

Faculty of Science, Research and International

Rally participants hold up signs and wear orange shirts as they march in support of residential school survivors and the families of missing and murdered Indigenous children in Winnipeg on. July 1, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mike Sudoma

Faculty of Arts News

Ignore debaters and denialists, Canada’s treatment of Indigenous Peoples fits the definition of genocide

October 26, 2021 —
A better understanding of what most genocide scholars believe can help people understand how Canada’s Indian Residential School system fits with definitions of genocide

Faculty of Arts, Indigenous, Research and International, Residential Schools, The Conversation

7 WXN Women's Top 100 winners photos: Top row (L-R): Dr. Patricia Birk, Dr. Tracie Afifi, Dr. Melanie Morris, Dr. Janice Ristock. Second row: Melanie MacKinnon, Dr. Tina Chen, Dr. Joanne Embree.

Seven professors named Most Powerful Women in Canada

October 25, 2021 —
Read the inspiring stories of the recipients

Administration, Alumni and Community, Awards, Campus and Community, Dr. Janice Ristock, Dr. Joanne Embree, Dr. Melanie Morris, Dr. Patricia Birk, Dr. Tina Chen, Dr. Tracie Afifi, Faculty of Arts, Indigenous, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Research and International

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