Faculty of Graduate Studies News Archive
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Rady students place 1st and 2nd in 3MT final
June 23, 2020 —
Staring into a video camera, Toby Le finished his Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentation, and the tiny audience of 11 other competitors broke into applause.
Faculty of Graduate Studies
Meet Belal Zia, one of five of UM’s 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients
June 22, 2020 —
UM Today caught up with Zia to chat about how the Vanier Scholarship will support his research titled: Promoting treatment seeking among Canadian Muslims: The development, implementation and evaluation of a psychoeducational intervention utilizing the theory of planned behaviour and internalized stigma model.
Faculty of Graduate Studies
Meet Rachel Nickel, one of five of UM’s 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients.
June 22, 2020 —
UM Today caught up with Nickel to chat about how the Vanier Scholarship will support her research titled: Understanding and using the new physics of shape-selective magnetic nanoparticles: New ammunition for attacking biofilms.
Faculty of Graduate Studies
Meet Sarah Turner, one of five of UM’s 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients.
June 22, 2020 —
UM Today caught up with Turner to chat about how the Vanier Scholarship will support her research titled: Breastfeeding and child behaviour: Understanding the link through five different pathways in the Canadian CHILD birth cohort study.
Faculty of Graduate Studies
Meet Ashley Hayward, one of five of UM’s 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients.
June 22, 2020 —
UM Today caught up with Hayward to chat about how the Vanier Scholarship will support her research titled: Incarcerated mother’s experience with pregnancy and childbirth: A narrative inquiry.
Research and International
Meet Javad Alizadeh, one of five of UM’s 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients.
June 22, 2020 —
UM Today caught up with Alizadeh to chat about how the Vanier Scholarship will support his research titled: The role of mitophagy and extracellular matrix (ECM) stiffness in the regulation of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and subsequent metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) model.
Five Vanier Scholars will call UM home in 2020
June 19, 2020 —
Considered to be the Canadian equivalent of the United Kingdom’s Rhodes Scholarships, these $150,000 awards will help recruit and keep top doctoral students from across the country and around the world
COVID-19: Lessons learned from viral outbreaks
June 12, 2020 —
What did health professionals learn about dealing with viral outbreaks from the Ebola epidemic of 2018?
Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management
FKRM master’s student nets 3rd place at 3MT finals
June 5, 2020 —
Sarah Bohunicky's thesis on reducing shoulder pain gives her a podium finish in the 2020 UM Three Minute Thesis finals.
3MT winner dedicates award to research lab
June 4, 2020 —
A student who is working with an international team of researchers to understand the link between a birth control drug and HIV infection impressed a prestigious panel of judges at the eighth annual University of Manitoba Three Minute Thesis finals on June 3, 2020,