Research and International News Archive
No ‘back to normal’ after COVID-19
August 12, 2020 —
COVID-19 has placed a spotlight on the inequities of Canada’s current “curative” health-care system and the problems associated with viewing health policy in isolation from social factors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Muddied waters
August 7, 2020 —
Lake Winnipeg is dying and Indigenous communities and researchers supporting them have responded.
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.
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.
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