Research and International News Archive
Faculty of Graduate Studies
Dentistry students present studies at Research Day
May 12, 2021 —
Three years of hard work and sacrifice culminated in Dr. Rohan Kirtane winning first prize at the Dr. Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry Research Day. The effort the master of science in orthodontics student put into his research project paid off.
Manitoba Crop Alliance and University of Manitoba advancing Canadian Agriculture through new research facility
May 11, 2021 —
Manitoba Crop Alliance contributes $500,000 toward Prairie Crops & Soils Research Facility
Research and International
Apply to help UM become more age-friendly!
May 7, 2021 —
New funding open to faculty and staff to make UM more age-friendly
How Uber drivers avoided — and contributed to — the fate of taxi drivers
May 7, 2021 —
Countries around the world are wrestling with whether to classify Uber drivers and other gig economy workers as independent contractors or employees
Faculty of Science
UM Science Co-op graduate Madison Chapel on frontline national watch for COVID-19 variants
May 6, 2021 —
In October 2020, Madison Chapel graduated with a BSc. Honours degree in Microbiology, now she’s at the frontlines of Canada’s national genomic surveillance program for the virus that causes COVID-19
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Rehearsing for reality
May 4, 2021 —
Being unsure of what to expect on the day of an operation can fill some patients with dread.
Faculty of Science
Bioinformatics Lab – Q&A with Olivier Tremblay-Savard
May 3, 2021 —
A professor in the department of computer science, Bioinformatics Lab at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Tremblay-Savard’s research interests include comparative genomics, and human computing games in genomics. His interest in science goes way back and he credits the terrific science teachers he had in high school/ CEGEP and scientific tv shows for inspiring him. Dr. Tremblay-Savard received a BSc and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the University of Montreal. He completed a postdoc, in Human Computing and Bioinformatics from McGill University.
Faculty of Science
Physicists suggest Neutron stars should be bigger than they are
April 30, 2021 —
UM physicists Drs. Juliette Mammei and Micheal Gerricke are part of an international research experiment that has made the most precise measurement yet of the neutron distribution in a heavy nucleus, with implications for the structure of neutron stars. Their paper, Accurate Determination of the Neutron Skin Thickness of 208Pb through Parity-Violation in Electron Scattering has just been published in the Physical Review Letters.
New Associate Vice-President (Research) appointed
April 23, 2021 —
Dr. Annemieke Farenhorst appointed Associate Vice-President (Research)
3MT winner cites passion for research as driving force in competition
April 22, 2021 —
Nolan De Leon, a graduate student who is an aspiring physician won first place and the Archie McNicol Prize at the University of Manitoba Three Minute Thesis finals on April 21, 2021