Faculty of Science News Archive
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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!
Climate change may be putting beluga whales out of their depths
June 10, 2019 —
An international team of researchers has found that the physical condition of beluga whales affects their capacity to store oxygen in their blood and muscle tissues
Faculty of Science
Ronald Domalaon will receive his PhD from the department of chemistry on Thursday, June 6
June 6, 2019 —
Classmates call Domalaon a “go-getter”, having already started a job in the pharmaceutical industry, after being scouted and hired in November of last year – but for Domalaon, it’s par for the course.
Personally motivated, completely dedicated to the fight
June 5, 2019 —
At age sixteen, Kailee Rutherford was diagnosed with cancer