Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences News Archive
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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Remembering Jim Philp, award-winning teacher
May 20, 2020 —
Retired staff member and much-loved instructor Jim Philp died on May 12, 2020.
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Asper School of Business
Asper MBA Students Excel at International Business Plan Competition
May 19, 2020 —
An Asper MBA business venture team excelled at the world’s first virtual business plan competition by reaching the final round of the 2020 SCG Bangkok Business Challenge, Asia’s longest-running global student start-up competition.
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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Manure Manager: Clearing the air, one cow at a time
May 16, 2020 —
Study explores how management strategies influence whole farm greenhouse gas emissions in cattle production systems
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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
COVID-19 has created opportunity for change
May 12, 2020 —
Dr. Nazim Cicek, associate head of biosystems engineering at UM, says that some good could come out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Bisons Kelsey Wog named Canada West Female Athlete of the Year
May 7, 2020 —
The best of Canada West were announced Thursday morning, as UM's Kelsey Wog and Saskatchewan's Taran Kozun were named the 2019-20 CW Athletes of the Year.
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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Food chemist recognized for outstanding research
May 3, 2020 —
Michael Eskin, Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences, has been named the 2020 recipient of the Supelco AOCS (American Oil Chemists Society) Research Award.
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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Food and agricultural markets during a pandemic: Insights from economists
May 1, 2020 —
Beyond the human-health issues associated with the pandemic, there are several concerns that transcend Canadian food and agricultural markets
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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Winnipeg Free Press: Letter to the editor from Dr. Joyce Slater
April 28, 2020 —
A letter to the editor from Dr. Joyce Slater in the Winnipeg Free Press (April 25, 2020) highlights the importance of a food systems approach to addressing the challenges brought by COVID-19.