Faculty of Science News Archive
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Faculty of Science
2019 Schulich Leader: Mia Battad
August 21, 2019 —
Drawn to technology from an early age, Mia Battad loved racing home from school to play on the family computer
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Price Faculty of Engineering
WISE Kid-Netic Energy inspires and fosters love of STEM for kids in Manitoba
August 20, 2019 —
Teaching kids about STEM is just one part of a much larger experience for instructors
![Karen Gunderson](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/speed-150x150.jpg)
Research and International
The speed of a rumour
August 19, 2019 —
Pure mathematics is all about the long game, according to mathematician and alumna Karen Gunderson
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Students
Science advisor receives 2019 Advising Excellence Award
August 13, 2019 —
Christine Adams [BA(Hons)/ 94, MEd/01] from the Faculty of Science is the winner of the 2019 Advising Excellence Award
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Students
STEAM program provides wellness opportunities for students and staff
August 9, 2019 —
Success Through Wellness Grants foster creative STEAM programming in the Faculty of Science
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U of M welcomes two Schulich Leader Scholarship recipients this fall
August 6, 2019 —
Mia Battad, a student at Balmoral Hall School and Nikolaus Reichert of Garden City Collegiate have each been awarded the Schulich Leader Scholarship
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Faculty of Science
Connecting heaven and earth: UM researchers have highly anticipated nuclear experiment underway
July 16, 2019 —
Professors Dr. Juliette Mammei, along with her colleagues Dr. Michael Gericke and adjunct professor Dr. Russell Mammei, currently have an experiment running at Jefferson Lab, the world’s premier electron scattering facility, to measure the neutron skin of lead in an “earth-based” experiment.
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Faculty of Science
American Society of Pharmacognosy announces Paper of the Year – Sorensen chemistry lab
July 15, 2019 —
The Sorensen lab back-to-back papers in the Journal of Natural Products were selected by the editors for the Arthur E. Schwarting Award for Paper of the Year in 2018. The announcement was made public July 2, 2019 in the American Society of Pharmacognosy newsletter.
![Dr. Christopher Schneider and Dr. Ayush Kumar](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMG_0120-150x150.jpg)
Faculty of Science
Introducing Manitoba’s first Fecal Microbiota Transplant Program
June 24, 2019 —
Not all poop is the same, at least when it comes to fecal transplants. Typically a topic avoided in polite conversation, Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) is the transfer of one individual’s stool to another
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Register TODAY for the June 26 Food Systems Student Symposium
June 18, 2019 —
There is still time to register for the June 26 Food Systems Student Symposium!