Research and International News Archive
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Research and International
SET Day welcomes 188 students from record-breaking 35 schools to UM research labs
February 26, 2024 —
On Wednesday February 21, 188 Manitoba high school students visited UM for Science Engineering and Technology (SET) Day.
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Global Public Health at scale
February 22, 2024 —
A University of Manitoba (UM) project is focusing on improving maternal and child health in Uttar Pradesh – the largest state in India, with a population of 223 million, across 30,000 healthcare facilities and 300,000 front-line care providers.
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Rady Faculty researchers receive more than $8.3 million in CIHR funding
February 9, 2024 —
Researchers from the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences have been awarded more than $8.3 million in the latest round of Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) project funding.
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Faculty of Arts
Fair treatment for an overlooked group of refugees
February 8, 2024 —
Nabil Iqbal is a Master of Human Rights student and a 2023-24 recipient of a Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics (CPAE) Graduate Fellowship. He is keenly interested in finding ways to help improve the rights of an often overlooked refugee group – those who are forced to move across borders because of the threats to their homeland from climate change.
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Five UM researchers receive funding from Research Manitoba IPoC Program
February 6, 2024 —
A total of five University of Manitoba research projects will receive a total investment of nearly $550,000 over two years through Research Manitoba’s Innovation Proof-of-Concept (IPoC) Grant Program. The grants have been awarded to successful candidates in three areas: bioscience; infrastructure, transportation, and technologies; and advanced manufacturing.
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Research and International
Heart Health and You
February 5, 2024 —
On Wednesday February 28, 2024, leading researchers will share their insights into what you can do to protect your heart health at the UM Knowledge Exchange presentation Heart Health and You.
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Putting UM astrophysicists on the map… of the cosmos
February 2, 2024 —
The University of Manitoba is now member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) - an international network of scientists utilizing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) to advance the collective exploration of fundamentals of science.
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
The Winnipeg Foundation Innovation Fund supports cutting-edge projects
February 1, 2024 —
Three interdisciplinary teams from the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences have received $100,000 grants from The Winnipeg Foundation Innovation Fund to pursue leading-edge research in the areas of heart disease, phantom limb pain and Huntington’s disease.
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Power in the Data
January 24, 2024 —
Dr. Nathan Nickel directs UM's Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, which boasts the richest data mine in Canada -- in fact, one of the richest in the world -- for population-based research.
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Canadian Cancer Society awards two UM emerging scholars
January 22, 2024 —
Two researchers at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences were among the winners of the Canadian Cancer Society’s 2023 Emerging Scholar Research Grants competition.