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Faculty of Science

Witness the spark in science when students compete for $3,000 cash prize!

March 13, 2024 — 
Science Spark 3K Pitch Competition 2024 presented by the Bioscience Association Manitoba (BAM) is happening on April 8th, 1:00 p.m. at Marshall McLuhan Hall as 9 teams of science students pitch their innovative ideas and compete for a chance to win a $3,000 cash prize! The event is free but registration is required.

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University students and kids on both sides of a table with microscopes while some kids are looking through the microscopes and some university students are explaining or showing the science experiments to kids.

Faculty of Science

Volunteer for Science Rendezvous 2024

March 10, 2024 — 
Volunteer for Science Rendezvous 2024 because we can't do this without you and this is the event you're going to remember you volunteered for, made friendships and connections with your peers, faculty and staff, and got Experience Record once you spent more than 10 hours volunteering.

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Witta Irumva, Black female student standing on front of a grey wall, wearing a black and white outfit, smiling.

Faculty of Science

The intersection of genetics and advocacy

February 12, 2024 — 
Witta Irumva is a fourth-year genetics student at the University of Manitoba and UMSU Women’s Representative. In this interview with her, we learn about her journey in science, her challenges in the field of genetics, how she hopes the Faculty of Science supports students and her advocacy work for the UMSU Women's Centre and Black Student Empowerment Society.

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Faculty of Science

International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2024

February 9, 2024 — 
For the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we talked with five women in science at the Faculty of Science.

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Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning

Instructor Carla Zelmer plants the seeds of experiential learning

January 30, 2024 — 
The Experiential Learning Spotlight Series documents the diverse and innovative ways in which UM faculty and instructors incorporate experiential approaches to their teaching.

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Jessica Marinelli and Camille Prefontaine wearing bright green shirts in the left, with one pointing to the poster behind them, Oleksandra Havruk and Louis Cheng on the right wearing bright green shirts with one pointing to the poster behind them. The poster is on a wall with dark wooden panels.

Faculty of Science

The planet is paying for your iced coffee but it doesn’t have to

December 18, 2023 — 
UM students take the innovative route to compost PLA bioplastics.

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Faculty of Graduate Studies

The dinosaur in the coal mine

December 1, 2023 — 
How will freshwater fish fare against climate change? The answer could lie in this PhD research.

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Research and International

CBC Sudbury: ‘Hunting highways’: How human infrastructure changed the relationship between wolves and deer

November 14, 2023 — 
'Hunting highways': How human infrastructure changed the relationship between wolves and deer

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Bacterial colonies on agar plate

Faculty of Science

A journey of passion and growth in Biochemistry

June 13, 2023 — 
Sara Crooks, recent Biochemistry alumni, shares her journey in science through challenges and embracing collaboration.

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Faculty of Science

How Epidemics End

January 20, 2023 — 
How do societies know when an epidemic is over and normal life can resume? What are the criteria and markers of an epidemic’s end, and who has the insight, authority, and credibility to decipher these signs? Join Dr. Erica Charters, professor of the global history of medicine at the University of Oxford for an insightful conversation on how war, disease, and state formation intersect. Erica Charters currently leads a multidisciplinary project on How Epidemics End.

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