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Tonight on TV: Oops! Professor Popsicle Does It Again!

November 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Advisory, Biology, Environment and Geography, Health, Kinesiology, Media, Medicine, Outreach, Research, Science, Sports, Video

Dr. Gordon Giesbrecht, head of the Laboratory for Exercise and Environmental Medicine in the U of M’s Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, once again allows TV cameras into his lab to disprove a myth about the effects of cold weather on the body.
Tonight, as part of a Nature of Things segment on “Myth or […]

You’re a cold, cold man, Gordon Giesbrecht

October 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Health, Kinesiology, Medicine, News Release, Outreach, Research, Sports, Staff, environment

He’s probably Manitoba’s best-known research scientist, having been on The Late Show With David Letterman, the Rick Mercer Report (twice) and was tracked by anxious onlookers around the world by satellite as he walked the length of Lake Winnipeg.
To celebrate 25 years of cold research and education, Dr. Gord Giesbrecht is reminiscing and expanding wistfully […]

Governor General celebrates U of M’s Inner-City programs

October 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Aboriginal, Education, Environment and Geography, Kinesiology, Music, News Release, Outreach, Peace and Justice, Social Work, Sports, Staff, Students, arts

University of Manitoba president and vice-chancellor David Barnard and His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, celebrated inner city success stories today.
The Celebrating Inner-City Community Connections event showcased highlights of the University of Manitoba Connecting to Kids report. This report demonstrated that world-class scholars, researchers and staff are joining with community […]

Linking Manitoba With Gorillas

October 6th, 2011 · No Comments · Kinesiology, News Release

Michael Campbell, professor in the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, has won a Skål International “green award” for his work in sustainable gorilla tourism in Uganda.
Campbell took home the trophy for best Educational Program at the tenth annual Skål International Sustainable Development in Tourism Awards recently held in Finland. Founded in […]

Grads Tune Up Jets

August 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Kinesiology, News Release

Athletic therapy graduates from the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management keep Winnipeg’s professional athletes in competing form.
The Winnipeg Jets have four athletic therapists and they all graduated from the University of Manitoba. They worked for the Manitoba Moose and were kept on staff when the new team arrived. Rob Milette (B.E.S.S./02) […]

Camp Days for Flood Evacuees

July 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Aboriginal, Kinesiology, Outreach

University of Manitoba President David Barnard today announced a special Mini-U children’s camp for 279 children who are displaced from their homes as a result of this year’s flooding.
Since March 2011, 279 children and their families from flooded First Nations communities have lived in Winnipeg hotels. On July 14, 25 Manitoba institutions, including the University […]

Get Your Sneakers in Motion

June 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Health, Kinesiology, News Release, Outreach, Sports, Staff

On Thursday, June 9, 2011, the 22nd annual Sneakers In Motion Day will be held at the University of Manitoba Fort Garry Campus. (The Bannatyne Campus will have its own parallel event on Thursday, June 16, 2011.)
At noon, the event begins with an enthusiastic mass warm-up at the Curry Place Pedway (located between Aboriginal House […]