Research and International News Archive
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
UM health researchers receive more than $6.7 million in federal support
September 6, 2023 —
Health researchers at UM have been awarded more than $6.7 million in the latest round of project funding by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
UM-developed ‘smart glove’ offers hand therapy remotely
September 5, 2023 —
As part of an international scholarship, Silas Müller, a biomedical engineering student from Stuttgart, Germany, has spent the summer at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences conducting validation testing on a new telerehabilitation tool that will help people who need physical therapy on their hands.
Research and International
Four new Royal Society of Canada scholars named at UM
September 5, 2023 —
Four UM professors have been elected to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the country’s most esteemed association of scholars and scientists.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Rady grad student profile: Erwin Taguiam studies gene expression in tuberculosis and HIV co-infection
September 1, 2023 —
Erwin Taguiam’s research focuses on searching for a “signature” in blood that could potentially be used to quickly and easily detect TB in people living with HIV.
Faculty of Architecture
Master of Landscape Architecture students win 2nd place at International poster competition
August 31, 2023 —
Master of Landscape Architecture students Matthew Glowacki and Gel Illagan have been awarded 2nd place in the international DLA 2023 Student Poster Competition. The competition has been part of the 24th Annual Digital Landscape Architecture Conference in Dessau, Germany. The theme of the competition was "Future Resilient Landscapes". Students were invited to showcase their work by submitting a poster presenting landscape architecture visualization techniques “fueled by experimental communication …, while exploring the boundaries of digital techniques in landscape architecture”. (Competition brief)
Faculty of Graduate Studies
Four UM graduate students named Vanier Scholars
August 29, 2023 —
Students from the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, and Faculty of Science are Vanier Scholars
Research and International
Team of UM researchers honoured with inaugural Robbins‐Ollivier Award for Excellence in Equity
August 29, 2023 —
A new UM project addressing inequities experienced by those with disabilities because of systemic ableism has received federal support through the inaugural Robbins‐Ollivier Award for Excellence in Equity.
Research and International
Growing health-care partnerships with rural and northern communities
August 29, 2023 —
Leah Crockett is a new Banting Scholar, working to build on established partnerships between key stakeholders across more than a dozen rural and northern communities.
More than 100 UM researchers receive Discovery Grant funding
August 29, 2023 —
Today more than $5 million in project funding was announced in support of 115 UM researchers through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
UM receives $2.5 million for research infrastructure
August 29, 2023 —
The federal government recently announced the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) recipients of the John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) for fall 2022 and spring 2023. Among the recipients are UM researchers who were awarded $2.5 million for nine research infrastructure projects in fields ranging from internal medicine to biochemistry to food and human nutritional sciences, and much more.