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Meet Aleeza Gerstein, 2021 Rh Award Winner in the Health Sciences category
May 27, 2022 —
Aleeza Gerstein is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Science, who specializes in the evolution of human fungal pathogens
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Meet Amar Khoday, 2021 Rh Award Winner in the Humanities category
May 27, 2022 —
Amar Khoday studies the connections between resistance and the law
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Meet Sabine Kuss, 2021 Rh Award Winner in the Applied Sciences Category
May 27, 2022 —
This award recognizes her team’s discoveries and developments in rapid, accurate and cost-efficient point-of-care biosensor devices, which aims to save time, health care costs and, most importantly, lives
![Raphael Clouatre is the recipient of the Terry G. Falconer Memorial Rh Institute Foundation Emerging Researcher Award in the Natural Sciences category](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Raphael-Clouatre-Falconer6-cropped-150x150.jpg)
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Meet Raphaël Clouâtre, 2021 Rh Award Winner in the Natural Sciences category
May 27, 2022 —
This award is in recognition of his theories underlying recent developments in operator algebras and operator theory
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Meet Filiz Koksel, 2021 Rh Award Winner in the Applied Sciences category
May 27, 2022 —
Filiz Koksel is a food scientist with expertise in food processing and non-destructive assessments of food quality
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Research and International
Meet Peter Nickerson, the 2021 Dr. John M. Bowman Memorial Winnipeg Rh Institute Foundation Award winner
May 27, 2022 —
Peter Nickerson is the recipient of the 2021 Dr. John M. Bowman Memorial Winnipeg Rh Institute Foundation Award in recognition of his 27-year research program which significantly enhances patients’ access to transplants, reduced their risk of rejection, and improved their quality of life
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Faculty of Social Work
Improving access to health care and social services for marginalized people in Canada
May 26, 2022 —
Dr. Rusty Souleymanov, assistant professor, has been nationally recognized for his current efforts to make health care, community-based services, and social programs accessible to some of Canada's most disenfranchised and marginalized communities. Over the past two years, Dr. Souleymanov was awarded more than $1.2 million through multiple grants from the Federal Government of Canada, the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to lead his program of study. His research seeks to inform culturally sensitive models of health care and community-based services.
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Faculty of Law
Canadian Journal of Human Rights celebrates publication of 10th anniversary edition
May 26, 2022 —
The only Canadian peer-reviewed academic journal dealing exclusively with human rights research is still staying true to its original mandate 10 years later. Founded in 2012 by Faculty of Law professor, Dr. Donn Short, the Canadian Journal of Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Policy remains a publication of the Law Faculty Council at the University of Manitoba.
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Asper School of Business
Steven Zheng selected for the Stu Clark Professorship in Financial Management
May 19, 2022 —
Dr. Xiaofan (Steven) Zheng from the Asper School of Business has been selected for the Stu Clark Professorship in Financial Management.
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Research and International
Denying abortion access has a negative impact on children and families
May 19, 2022 —
As abortion access is limited, the consequences at the individual level ripple through society as, on average, people denied abortions and their children are more likely to experience negative economic, social and health effects.