Research and International News Archive
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Read new issue of RadyUM magazine online
August 11, 2020 —
The summer 2020 issue of the RadyUM magazine is digital only and now available online.
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Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
The Churchill Marine Observatory
August 10, 2020 —
The Churchill Marine Observatory is dedicated to the studies on detection, impact and mitigation of oil spills and related contaminants in sea ice-covered waters, extreme weather, climate change and fresh-water marine coupling studies.
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Faculty of Science
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.
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UM team and partners are selected as finalist for Food System Vision Prize
August 10, 2020 —
UM experts bolstered a project that will help to decolonize food systems, and it was selected as a Top 10 Finalist for the Food System Vision Prize.
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Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
CEOS and MMF collaborate on community-based water monitoring
August 8, 2020 —
The collaboration expands community-based monitoring and facilitates sharing water, weather and climate information
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Muddied waters
August 7, 2020 —
Lake Winnipeg is dying and Indigenous communities and researchers supporting them have responded.
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Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management
New study aims to increase physical activity in people with pre-diabetes
August 7, 2020 —
A new research study at the University of Manitoba is exploring interventions designed to help people with pre-diabetes increase—and sustain—their levels of physical activity.
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UM pediatric researcher comments on World Breastfeeding Week
August 4, 2020 —
UM researcher Dr. Meghan Azad is Canada Research Chair in Developmental Origins of Chronic Disease and a research scientist at the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba (CHRIM). She was on CTV Winnipeg Morning Live to talk about the importance of breastfeeding.
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CBC: Lack of bees poses big problems
July 30, 2020 —
Crop yields found to be suffering in wake of decreasing bee populations, UM researcher and others report
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Three new Distinguished Professors at UM
July 27, 2020 —
Congratulations Drs. Tina Chen, Elizabeth Comack and Roberta Woodgate