For the second year in a row, two upcoming University of Manitoba first-year students have each been awarded Schulich Leader Scholarships, a four-year award totaling $60,000.
Jayden McKoy, who recently graduated from Miles Macdonell Collegiate, and Ella Thompson, a new graduate of Balmoral Hall School, are the lucky ones.
Every Canadian high school, secondary school and CEGEP […]

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University of Manitoba fourth-year Biosystems Engineering student Andrea Kneale wanted to help and serve others using her engineering education.  Last week, she returned from a project trip to Croix des Bouquets, Haiti, where she was able to do just that.
Kneale travelled to Haiti with a team of engineers and architects from across North America who […]

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A team of international scientists report today in the journal Science how sperm whales and other diving mammals evolved to survive for long periods underwater without breathing.
Biologist Kevin Campbell at the University of Manitoba worked with a team of researchers to identify a distinctive molecular signature in the oxygen-binding protein myoglobin in all lineages of […]

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A celebratory wall was raised on a Habitat home in a University of Manitoba Bannatyne Campus parking lot on June 10 by Manitoba’s health minister, the Dean of Medicine, medical students, academic physicians, Habitat staff and other volunteers.
The building of the home is made possible through the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine’s new partnership […]

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A study on social housing by the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) at the University of Manitoba has found that Manitobans living in social housing face increased levels of mental health issues, illness and teen pregnancy compared with those not living in subsidized social housing. In addition, women in social housing are less likely […]

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The Government of Canada announced today it has awarded $2,008,479 to nine University of Manitoba research projects from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Leaders Opportunity Fund (LOF). The projects range from finding strategies to support to family caregivers to studying the effects of Type 2 diabetes on the cardiovascular system to advancing knowledge about […]

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The University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine is pleased to host the 26th annual Canadian Student Health Research Forum and 5th Annual Canadian National Medical Student Research Symposium June 4 – 6, 2013 at the University of Manitoba’s Bannatyne Campus.
The event, themed Big Science, Informatics, and Biomedicine, joins more than 250 health research students and […]

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