Faculty of Science News Archive
![Elizabeth Skoropata is recipient of the Governor General's Gold Medal, awarded for outstanding achievement at the graduate level](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/8979573242_af02a2da04_o-150x150.jpg)
2018 Governor General’s Gold Medal Recipient
June 4, 2018 —
Elizabeth Skoropata is this year’s recipient of the Governor General's Gold Medal
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Remembering eminent ecologist, alumna Jennifer Shay
June 1, 2018 —
Jennifer Shay (nee Walker), professor emerita who founded the renowned Delta Marsh Field Station, ushering in hands-on field work, died May 7 at age 88
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Black Holes Play Hide-and-Seek in Low-Luminosity Radio Galaxies
May 24, 2018 —
Every galaxy is thought to harbor a supermassive black hole in the center, or nucleus, of the galaxy, and in active galaxies this black hole is fed by infalling matter. This “central engine” is typically surrounded by dusty molecular gas in a doughnut configuration, which hides the black hole and the infalling material from our view along certain viewing directions. The picture of a central engine plus obscuring doughnut is thought to apply to all accreting supermassive black holes, explaining the apparent variety of active galaxies from the very brightest quasars to the lower-luminosity radio galaxies under a single “unified scheme.”
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Yahoo!: Physicists Just Measured One of the Four Fundamental Forces of Nature. Now They’re Bummed.
May 23, 2018 —
"This is the smallest and most precise asymmetry ever measured in the scattering of polarized electrons from protons," said U of M's Peter Blunden
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Science Rendezvous 2018 delightfully messy
May 15, 2018 —
Four thousand attendees, 300 pounds of cornstarch,1000 servings of liquid nitrogen ice cream, and 600 bags of popcorn, Science Rendezvous 2018, held Saturday, May 12 was a tactile extravaganza!
![A partial view of the apparatus used at Jefferson Lab to measure the weak charge of the proton. The electron beam travelled down a vacuum pipe from left to right. Electrons scattered from the liquid hydrogen target were selected by a contoured shielding system and deflected radially outwards by an 8-fold symmetric magnetic spectrometer in the center of the figure; they were detected by an array of quartz Cerenkov bars forming the black octagonal structure at the far right. The Canadian group designed and constructed the magnetic field coils with support from NSERC and TRIUMF. U of M students and scientists played a key role in building and operating the electron detector array, which was surrounded by a heavy concrete shielding structure (not shown) during data taking.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/HIGH-Resolution-Qweak-Photo-150x150.jpg)
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The weak side of the proton
May 9, 2018 —
An international team, including several university of Manitoba researchers, have gained new insight into the most elusive of the four fundamental forces in nature
![Extended Education May 2 event at Forth.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/UMTalkSmart-150x150.jpg)
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Smart City – Intelligent Ideas
May 9, 2018 —
Winnipeg: Smart City-Intelligent Community was a chance to start, and continue, the conversation about how we will make our community not only Smart with its adaptation of technology, but also Intelligent in using that technology to improve people’s lives.
![2018 Distinguished Alumni Awards features graduating Faculty of Music student Elena Howard-Scott and U of M, Bison and NFL alumnus Israel Idonije](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ALM-00-126-DAA2018-UMT-Feature-F-150x150.jpg)
Prepare to be dazzled at the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Awards
May 9, 2018 —
Recipients’ defining moments explored at this year’s gala celebration
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Full STEAM ahead – Science Rendezvous!
May 8, 2018 —
Science Rendezvous, a free day of fun and discovery returns to the University of Manitoba, Fort Garry campus Saturday, May 12
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Winnipeg: Smart city – intelligent community
May 1, 2018 —
The first session of the Dean’s Lecture Series on May 2