Vanier Scholar News Archive

Top stories of 2020
December 22, 2020 —
A year to remember or a year to forget? The COVID-19 pandemic dominated headlines across the globe, including here at the University of Manitoba, but there was always light behind the dark clouds. Positive stories shone through.

Faculty of Graduate Studies
Meet Belal Zia, one of five of UM’s 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients
June 22, 2020 —
UM Today caught up with Zia to chat about how the Vanier Scholarship will support his research titled: Promoting treatment seeking among Canadian Muslims: The development, implementation and evaluation of a psychoeducational intervention utilizing the theory of planned behaviour and internalized stigma model.

Faculty of Graduate Studies
Meet Rachel Nickel, one of five of UM’s 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients.
June 22, 2020 —
UM Today caught up with Nickel to chat about how the Vanier Scholarship will support her research titled: Understanding and using the new physics of shape-selective magnetic nanoparticles: New ammunition for attacking biofilms.

Faculty of Graduate Studies
Meet Sarah Turner, one of five of UM’s 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients.
June 22, 2020 —
UM Today caught up with Turner to chat about how the Vanier Scholarship will support her research titled: Breastfeeding and child behaviour: Understanding the link through five different pathways in the Canadian CHILD birth cohort study.

Faculty of Graduate Studies
Meet Ashley Hayward, one of five of UM’s 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients.
June 22, 2020 —
UM Today caught up with Hayward to chat about how the Vanier Scholarship will support her research titled: Incarcerated mother’s experience with pregnancy and childbirth: A narrative inquiry.

Research and International
Meet Javad Alizadeh, one of five of UM’s 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients.
June 22, 2020 —
UM Today caught up with Alizadeh to chat about how the Vanier Scholarship will support his research titled: The role of mitophagy and extracellular matrix (ECM) stiffness in the regulation of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and subsequent metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) model.

Five Vanier Scholars will call UM home in 2020
June 19, 2020 —
Considered to be the Canadian equivalent of the United Kingdom’s Rhodes Scholarships, these $150,000 awards will help recruit and keep top doctoral students from across the country and around the world

Student success stories of 2019
December 20, 2019 —
The UM has no shortage of incredible students - here’s a snapshot of some of our students’ biggest successes of the year

Six minds that will change our society now call the U of M home
May 16, 2019 —
U of M students receive prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships to pursue trailblazing research

2019 Vanier Scholar: Aleah Fontaine
May 16, 2019 —
Aleah Fontaine is one of six 2019 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients from the University of Manitoba - a record setting year for the university.