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Front row (l-r): Recipients Aaron Marshall, Michael Czubryt, Roberta Woodgate (CRC), Kellie Thiessen and Elder Katherine Whitecloud (Assembly of First Nations) (back row, l-r): Recipients Frank Schweizer and Brian Mark, MP Terry Duguid, UM VP Research & International Digvir Jayas, and recipients Ian Dixon, Leslie Roos and Benedict Albensi.

Celebrating the achievements of cutting-edge researchers

March 15, 2019 — 
$10.4M in funding for U of M researchers is part of a national investment by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to support researchers studying full spectrum of health issues

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Minister of Science and Sport, Kirsty Duncan (centre) at U of M Health Sciences campus for announcement of CFI-JELF awards.

Research and International

Seven U of M research projects funded by CFI

March 14, 2019 — 
More than $1.1 million in support of seven U of M research projects in areas such as disease, food processing and supercomputers

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Sea lions in repose

Alumni Abroad: Science to the extreme

March 4, 2019 — 
Allyson Hindle can tell you a lot about mammals in extreme environments

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Globe and Mail: The chosen few: We asked Canada’s business leaders to nominate the brightest minds you’ve never heard of

March 1, 2019 — 
There’s a new generation of leaders coming up through the ranks who are changing the face of business in Canada

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Sustainability

Sustainability Night: Exploring the UN Sustainable Development Goals

February 25, 2019 — 
Come join us for Sustainability Night on March 7 to connect with other sustainability-focused people

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Food Systems Research Group

FSRG talk – An Offering: Lakota Elders Contributions to the Future of Food Security

February 19, 2019 — 
Feb 27 FSRG talk: Mary Kate Dennis shares contributions to the future of food security by Lakota Elders

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ARTIST'S IMPRESSION OF A KILONOVA, BY A. SIMONNET

A kilonova in our neighbourhood

February 4, 2019 — 
An international team of researchers, led by U of M astrophysicist Dr. Samar Safi-Harb, proposes that the merging of two neutron stars relatively near the Earth has created a “kilonova remnant”

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Pourang Irani (right) with students inspecting a spatio-temporal dataset on a large screen display.

The human architect

February 3, 2019 — 
Pourang Irani is focused on enhancing our human capabilities by providing data in ways that will help us make better decisions and navigate our day-to-day

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Blue digital graphs showing data with a black background.

Faculty of Science

A golden age for statistics: Honoured alum Shirley Mills on the profession she loves

January 29, 2019 — 
Dr. Mills is a recipient of the 2019 Faculty of Science Honoured Alumni Awards.

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someone hold up slides of what looks like blood

$10.4 million investment in transformative health research

January 28, 2019 — 
CIHR funds 15 studies that will benefit individuals coping with disabilities and many life-threatening conditions

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