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, […]

[Read more →]

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 […]

[Read more →]

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 […]

[Read more →]

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 […]

[Read more →]

The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced today it has awarded $2,197,648 to eight University of Manitoba researchers from the Leaders Opportunity Fund (LOF). The projects range from advancing knowledge about Arctic climate change to the control and prevention of infectious diseases to improving cereal crop yields.
“Canadians from coast to coast to coast can be […]

[Read more →]

You could call it “paying it forward.” A trip to the Emergency Department (ED) is every parent’s worst nightmare. But what if the information documented as a result of your child’s visit could help a child with similar symptoms a few provinces away?
Terry Klassen and his research team of leading pediatric emergency physicians at Pediatric […]

[Read more →]

Tomorrow, Tuesday, January 17, 2012, the University of Manitoba and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) are hosting Café Scientifique, an informal event that brings together experts with non-researchers in a relaxed atmosphere to talk about important health questions.
As a society, we rely heavily on scientific facts as they relate to our health. But […]

[Read more →]