It may seem a bit idiosyncratic for a Canadian university to build a special experimental facility for making ice (and hockey is not involved), but this research laboratory may be the key to helping scientists better understand climate change.
The Sea-ice Environmental Research Facility (SERF) is the first of its kind in Canada: a large, outdoor, […]

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The University of Manitoba will transform the Southwood Lands into a landscape that epitomizes the ideal live-work-learn-play place for Winnipeggers and it took the inaugural step last night by meeting with neighbours, interest groups, and government officials.
The University of Manitoba is working with stakeholders in developing an understanding for how the 120 acres should evolve. […]

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The new People’s Citizenship Guide, edited by two University of Manitoba professors, won’t help anyone pass the test to become a Canadian, but it might help make all of us more critical and thus better citizens.
In 2009, the contents of the official Canada citizenship guide that is given to all recent immigrants was changed to […]

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A major donation by a graduate of the University of Manitoba Faculty of Engineering will support an upgrading and redevelopment of electrical engineering research and teaching facilities at the Fort Garry campus.
Mr. Stanley F. Pauley, through The Pauley Family Foundation, has donated $4 million to renovate and refurbish existing laboratories and facilities at 105 Dafoe […]

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The University of Manitoba has upgraded some of its drinking fountains in University Centre, aiming to reduce waste and support sustainability on campus.
Each new drinking fountain is a state-of-the-art EZH2O bottle filling station, providing the rapid filling of pure filtered water into reusable bottles, eliminating the need for students, staff and visitors to buy disposable […]

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On January 27, 2012, the University of Manitoba publicly thanked the federal and provincial government for their financial support of the renovation and redevelopment of two major education and research facilities in the Faculty of Science. The Biological Sciences building and the Buller Building Science Laboratories were projects funded by the federal and provincial governments […]

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Manitoba residents are being invited to participate in the largest study of aging ever undertaken in Canada.
The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) will follow at least 50,000 Canadians between the ages of 45 and 85 for 20 years. The national study will collect information on the changing biological, medical, psychological, social, lifestyle and economic […]

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