Connecting academic research with real world issues: Grace Elendu’s URA Experience

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Connecting academic research with real world issues: Grace Elendu’s URA Experience

February 11, 2025 —
Grace Elendu, a criminology major in the Faculty of Arts, earned an Undergraduate Research Award (URA) and learned valuable skills through 16 weeks of mentorship.

criminology, Faculty of Arts, restorative justice, sociology, Transforming the Learning Experience, Undergraduate Research Awards, undergraduate students, URA

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Meet the 2024 Faculty of Arts Gold Medal Recipients

June 3, 2024 —
The Faculty of Arts is pleased to present the 2024 undergraduate academic medal winners. Their achievements are recognized in the Spring 2024 convocation ceremony.

convocation2024, English, Faculty of Arts, history, psychology, sociology, Students

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Introducing St John’s College newest fellows

May 23, 2024 —
St John’s College is proud to welcome four academics to our fellowship this spring. The new fellows come from across UM, representing both the Faculty of Science and Faculty of Arts, and include a former Warden and Vice-Chancellor of SJC.

Department of Sociology and Criminology, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Science research, faculty research, Fellowship, Microbiology, philosophy, science research, sociology, sociology and criminology, St John's College, St John's College community, St John's College fellowship, Statistics

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Faculty of Arts

CP24: Child care cost less in 2023, but more parents say spots are hard to find: StatCan

December 6, 2023 —
Child care cost less in 2023, but more parents say spots are hard to find: StatCan

child care, economics, Faculty of Arts, sociology

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Faculty of Arts

Celebrating undergraduate research

October 6, 2023 —
This past summer, the Faculty of Arts gathered to celebrate the efforts and contributions of undergraduate student researchers.

Faculty of Arts, political studies, psychology, sociology, student research, Students, Transforming the Learning Experience

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Research and International

Six-part Canada Research Chair Symposium concludes, showcasing groundbreaking researchers

June 26, 2023 —
Last week concluded the six-part Canada Research Chair (CRC) Symposium at UM.

Biochemistry, Chemistry, Community Health Sciences, Dr. Andrew Halayko, Dr. Britt Drögemöller, Dr. Galen Wright, Dr. Heather Armstrong, Dr. James Blanchard, Dr. Janilyn Arsenio, Dr. Kathryn Sibley, Dr. Lisa Lix, Dr. Lorrie Kirshenbaum, Dr. Marcelo Urquia, Dr. Meghan Azad, Dr. Robert Lorway, Dr. Sabine Mai, Dr. Souradet Shaw, Dr. Susan Logue, Dr. Terry Klassen, Dr. Ties Boerma, Dr. Tracie Afifi, Dr. Zulma Rueda, electrical and computer engineering, Environment and Geography, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Science research, food and human nutritional sciences, Institute for Global Public Health, internal medicine, linguistics, Max Rady College of Medicine, mechanical engineering, medical microbiology, Pediatrics and Child Health, pharmacology and therapeutics, Physics and Astronomy, physiology, political studies, Price Faculty of Engineering, psychiatry, psychology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Research and International, Riddell Faculty, sociology

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Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources

‘Farmland Matters’ podcast hosted by UM master’s students

June 24, 2022 —
Four University of Manitoba Masters Students created a podcast based on their research into how patterns of farmland ownership are changing across the Canadian Prairies.

Environment and Geography, Environment Earth and Resources, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Graduate Studies, sociology

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Faculty of Arts

Meet the 2022 Faculty of Arts Gold Medal Recipients

June 7, 2022 —
The Faculty of Arts is pleased to present the 2022 undergraduate academic medal winners

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Wpg Free Press — LGBTTQ+ students picked on, feel unsafe: report

March 31, 2022 —
'Student members of the LGBTTQ+ community are far more likely to be victims of targeted harassment and feel unsafe at school than their peers who are cisgender and heterosexual, Manitoba researchers have found — once again'

Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Graduate Studies, sociology

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Faculty of Graduate Studies

Master’s student pursues research with support from the Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement

October 14, 2021 —
University of Manitoba graduate student Hanika Nakagawa is one of this year’s recipients of the Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement.

Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Graduate Studies, sociology

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