Research and International News Archive
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Top Conversation Canada stories of 2021
December 23, 2021 —
All of these stories were first published on The Conversation Canada, and then republished on our own UM Today
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Winnipeg Free Press: ‘Boot camp’ for grad students fosters entrepreneurship
December 22, 2021 —
The U of M joins Dalhousie, Memorial and Ryerson universities in this 16-week "boot camp" for graduate students who believe the research they are engaged in has commercial potential.
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
UM neonatologist edits book on hypoxic respiratory failure in newborns
December 20, 2021 —
Book spotlights the work of 80 authors, edited by a team of world experts led by UM's Dr. Shyamala Dakshinamurti.
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
UM researchers investigate why being on a ventilator can damage organs
December 16, 2021 —
A UM research team is examining how being on a ventilator affects a patient’s vascular (circulatory) system, and how those effects may be connected to organ damage beyond the lungs.
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Alumni
Grave of UM Aggie, Great War Casualty, Identified in France
December 15, 2021 —
On Nov. 16, 2021, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission confirmed the grave of University of Manitoba Agriculture student, Lance Corporal Morgan Jenkins in Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery near Haucourt, France.
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UM Café Scientifique offers rich array of topics in 2022
December 14, 2021 —
Learn and join the discussion!
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
On Target
December 14, 2021 —
Dr. Ted Lakowski’s research passion is the relatively new field of epigenetics.
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Faculty of Architecture
Archimagination – Architecture faculty, students and alumni contribute to the 2021 Venice Biennale
December 13, 2021 —
How will we live together? – This was the question posed by the 17th International Architecture Biennale, which ran from May 22 to November 21, 2021, in Venice and virtual venues. While the pandemic and related crises keep pushing people apart, this forum fostered ways of imagining a more livable world together.
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Research and International
University of Manitoba receives highest ever research funding
December 10, 2021 —
A total of $231 million in grants and contracts was delivered to UM to support research in every discipline
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
UM scientist named to Canada’s Top 40 Under 40
December 7, 2021 —
Dr. Meghan Azad, an international expert on how children’s experiences in the womb and during infancy shape lifelong health, was recently honoured as one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 for 2021