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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences News Archive

Dr. Harmeet Chawla

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

New Plant Science prof to use bioinformatics to design resilient crops

December 1, 2022 — 
Dr. Harmeet Singh Chawla joined the Department of Plant Science as Assistant Professor in Plant Genomics and Genetics on August 15, 2022.

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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Calling for nominations for Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences 2023 Certificate of Merit

November 30, 2022 — 
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences annual award recognizes community leaders

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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

New Biosystems Engineering instructor enjoys helping students tackle complex ideas

November 29, 2022 — 
Ella Morris joined the Department of Biosystems Engineering as Instructor I (Indigenous Scholar) on September 1, 2022.

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Herd of cattle in pasture

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

New website a valuable resource on livestock production research

November 25, 2022 — 
The National Centre for Livestock and the Environment (NCLE) has launched a new website that puts a wealth of information at the fingertips of the producers, researchers and other industry stakeholders. 

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CBC Future 40 list highlights UM big thinkers and change makers

November 22, 2022 — 
CBC Manitoba’s Future 40 Awards are back and the announcement comes with a significant list of UM representation.

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The UM STARlab team in the clean room at Magellan Aerospace with the UM satellite

Actually, it is rocket science

November 18, 2022 — 
Ferguson is an associate professor in mechanical engineering, the NSERC / Magellan Aerospace Industrial Research Chair in Satellite Engineering at UM, and the director of STARLab, a suite of projects based in the Price Faculty of Engineering and where he is telling me about his work.

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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Biosystems engineering alumni honoured for achievements

November 15, 2022 — 
The Biosystems Engineering Alumni of Influence Awards recognize those who graduated in both the undergraduate and graduate programs.

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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Top Crop Manager: “Immunizing” canola against blackleg

November 11, 2022 — 
Biological technique developed at UM showed successful control of virulent pathogen in trial.

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Keenan Karish walks in front of university building.

Donor Relations

Scholarship helps make university dream a reality for a first-year student

November 2, 2022 — 
Scholarship supports make it possible for student to focus on studies while transitioning form an urban setting to a post-secondary education.

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Cattle in winter feed in the snow

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Cattle Country: Intermediate wheatgrass – potential as a rescue hay crop

November 1, 2022 — 
The following article was written by P. LeHeiget, E.J. McGeough and D.J. Cattani, University of Manitoba. It was originally published in Cattle Country in November 2022.

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