Physics and astronomy News Archive
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International award-winning cosmic image
October 7, 2020 —
Dr. Jayanne English, an expert in astronomy image-making in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, at the University of Manitoba won 2nd place in the prestigious National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) cosmic image contest for her latest cosmic image, a composite VLA and Hubble Space Telescope image revealing the extended magnetic field of the galaxy NGC 5775. Named: Magnetic Field of Galaxy NGC 5775.
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Winners of the 2020 3MT Undergraduate Student Competition
August 31, 2020 —
The winners of the 2020 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience 3MT thesis competition hosted by the Faculty of Science are:
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Cheer on the Undergraduate Science 3MT competitors!
August 10, 2020 —
Over forty undergraduate students enrolled in the Faculty of Science are participating in the first (virtual) Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Science Undergraduate Student Competition, August 11th, & 12th, 2020. A new initiative, part of the Faculty of Science, Student Undergraduate Summer Research Experience Program. Three Minute Thesis challenges students to communicate their ideas and research discoveries concisely to a non-specialist audience, in three minutes or less. There will be two competitions that will air live on the Faculty of Science YouTube channel.
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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Magic Squares: Past, Present and Future
February 26, 2020 —
New book display and exhibit at the Sciences and Technology Library
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NRAO: Image release: Giant magnetic ropes in a galaxy’s halo
December 3, 2019 —
An astronomy composite image produced by professor Jayanne English, physics and astronomy, using radio data reveals an image of the “Whale Galaxy” (NGC 4631), made with the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), reveals hair-like filaments of the galaxy’s magnetic field protruding above and below the galaxy’s disk.
UM researchers create ‘Romulan Cloaking Device’
September 24, 2019 —
Dr. Yipu Wang and PhD students in the Faculty of Science have made a nonreciprocal microwave device that is completely opaque for microwaves traveling in one direction
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Invent the Future Together – Be a Mentor
September 5, 2019 —
Contribute to the future success of our immensely talented students, and become a mentor.
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Connecting heaven and earth: UM researchers have highly anticipated nuclear experiment underway
July 16, 2019 —
Professors Dr. Juliette Mammei, along with her colleagues Dr. Michael Gericke and adjunct professor Dr. Russell Mammei, currently have an experiment running at Jefferson Lab, the world’s premier electron scattering facility, to measure the neutron skin of lead in an “earth-based” experiment.
Six minds that will change our society now call the U of M home
May 16, 2019 —
U of M students receive prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships to pursue trailblazing research