Front and Centre – Graduate Student Support News Archive
![PhD student and 2018 3MT finalist and People’s Choice winner Jill Bueddefeld](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Untitled-1-150x150.jpg)
Faculty of Graduate Studies
Top 5: experiences to learn about nature in Manitoba
May 18, 2018 —
Grad student and researcher Jill Bueddefeld shares her recommendations.
![Jill Bueddefeld](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Jill-150x150.png)
Driving change: Teaching people to alter behaviour in the face of climate change
May 17, 2018 —
PhD student Jill Bueddefeld uncovers how nature-based tourism teaches people about the environment and their role in conservation
![Shervin Ghomi](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Shervin-150x150.png)
Building change: Creating towers to survive earthquakes
May 14, 2018 —
Shervin Ghomi, winner of U of M’s 2018 3MT competition, works with his supervisor, Ehab El-Salakawy, on developing safer and more efficient structures by exploring bold ideas
![Front and Centre.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/DNR-00-104-NatPhilDay-Web-UMTodayStill-150x150.jpg)
Happening now: Our greatest transformation
November 17, 2017 —
'We have reached a new, unprecedented level of generosity in our Front and Centre campaign'
![a stethoscope wraps around the globe](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Global-Health_000004877268Medium-150x150.jpg)
Heinz Bohnet Travel Award for post-docs in endocrinology and metabolic disease
October 19, 2017 —
The awardee must have presented a lecture or poster at an international or national conference/workshop during the period April 1, 2017, to September 30, 2017, or has been selected to present a lecture or poster at a conference/workshop during the period October 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018.
![Aurelie Delaforge is a PhD student in the Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/fullsizeoutput_170e-150x150.jpeg)
Monster discovered in Canadian Arctic
October 19, 2017 —
Graduate student Aurelie Delaforge discovered Canada’s first scientifically sound monster lurking under ice
![Jacqueline Hay](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Vanier-Photos-4131091-150x150.jpg)
Faculty of Graduate Studies
Meet Vanier Scholar Jacqueline Hay
September 20, 2017 —
When she was eight, she hung from a monkey bar for 11 minutes to prove a point, which was that she could hang from a monkey bar for 11 minutes
![Dr. Bonnie Buhler, centre, announced a $1 million gift on Sept. 14, 2017 to create an endowment fund to support outstanding graduate students in the Desautels Faculty of Music.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Homecoming-Stewardship-0686003-150x150.jpg)
Opening Manitoba’s newest music space
September 15, 2017 —
Desautels Faculty of Music unveils premier space, receives a major donation
![Savannah sparrow chick (the host species that was parasitized by the brown-headed cowbird) by Emily Pipher](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/epipher_savschick-150x150.jpg)
Birds in Alberta oil fields forced to raise imposters at alarming rate
July 18, 2017 —
NRI's Nicola Koper's latest study finds oil and gas infrastructure has lead to a four-fold increase of parasitic brown-headed cowbirds, which is bad news for songbirds
![(L-R) Katelin Neufeld and Dr. Krishnamurti Dakshinamurti.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Human-rights_WEB-150x150.jpg)
Social change: are you doing it right?
June 9, 2017 —
Katelin Neufeld [MA/14] is the inaugural recipient of the Mahatma Gandhi Scholarship in Human Rights