Research and International News Archive
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Improving science literacy
September 18, 2019 —
This week marks national Science Literacy Week, which provides an opportunity to highlight Canada’s outstanding scientists and science communicators from coast-to-coast
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The future of work will still include plenty of jobs
September 18, 2019 —
There is now widespread anxiety over the future of work, often accompanied by calls for a basic income to protect those displaced by automation and other technological changes
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
International students use video to share First Nations community research
September 18, 2019 —
Two College of Nursing students originally from Nigeria took part in a workshop with youth in Little Saskatchewan First Nation this summer that explored video as a way to share the community’s continuing struggles following a devastating 2011 flood.
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Manitobans are getting healthier overall, U of M study shows
September 17, 2019 —
Research by U of M’s Manitoba Centre for Health Policy reveals the overall health of Manitobans is improving across province’s five health regions.
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Grain researcher recognized by Royal Society of Canada
September 17, 2019 —
Digvir Jayas, vice-president (research and international) at UM, has received the 2019 Sir John William Dawson Medal from the Royal Society of Canada
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Health gap between First Nations and other Manitobans widening, study finds
September 17, 2019 —
A joint study by the First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba and the U of M’s Manitoba Centre for Health Policy finds health inequities are getting worse.
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#Fridaysforfuture: When youth push the environmental movement towards climate justice
September 17, 2019 —
In a time of climate catastrophe, after record-breaking temperatures scorched many parts of the world this summer and a devastating hurricane recently battered the Bahamas, school climate strikes are back
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Research and International
The leaders of tomorrow
September 12, 2019 —
Supporting early career researchers through a lifecycle approach
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With a federal election looming, an appeal for politicians to stop buying us off
September 10, 2019 —
With the federal election soon upon us, it’s time to issue a call for politicians to stop buying us off with our own money
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One new RSC Fellow, one new RSC College member
September 10, 2019 —
Professor Dawne McCance has been named a new Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and professor Frank Deer has been elected a member of the RSC’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists