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2020 Vanier Scholar-Rachel Nickel

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.

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2020 Vanier Scholar-Sarah Turner copy

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.

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2020 Vanier Scholar-Ashley Hayward

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.

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2020 Vanier Scholar-Javad Alizadeh

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.

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UM's 2020 Vanier Scholars from left to right: Javad Alizadeh, Ashley Hayward, Belal Zia, Rachel Nickel, Sarah Turner.

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

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Brayden Schindell is working in the Kindrachuk Lab on understanding viral outbreaks

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?

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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.

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Toby Le won the 2020 3MT competition

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,

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Asper School of Business

Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship Small Business Award Competition

June 2, 2020 — 
The Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship (SCCE) hosted a new competition for University of Manitoba students asking them to nominate their favourite Manitoba small business.

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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Puffed snacks and urban waste in 3, 2, 1

June 1, 2020 — 
Zoe Li and Jessica Nicksy will compete in the Three Minute Thesis final on June 3 at 7 pm.

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