Gordon “Professor Popsicle” Giesbrecht celebrates twenty-five years of his cold water research with the release of a new DVD that’s free to the public and geared towards saving lives.Giesbrecht, a professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, is available to tell media about Beyond Cold Water Boot Camp, and parts of the film […]

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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 […]

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Don’t have tickets to the games? The next best thing may be a remarkable collection of Winnipeg Jets memorabilia that is remaining on display at the University of Manitoba during the next few months.
A donor presented to the University a collection of 741 Jets hockey programs that document Jets home games from December 1975 to […]

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History professor Gerry Bowler, a recognized Christmas expert and author of the popular book Santa Claus: A Biography, is currently featured in a series of Christmas-themed videos that can be found on the University of Manitoba’s YouTube channel (youtube.com/umanitoba).
Bowler discusses the origin of Santa’s iconic image and whether Coca-Cola had anything to do with it. […]

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 Is the founder of Wikileaks doing more harm than good?
George MacLean, head of the department of political studies at the University of Manitoba, weighs in on what’s at the core of the Wikileaks issue with a short video commentary.
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For more information, contact George MacLean, […]

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Phil Hultin, a professor of chemistry at the University of Manitoba, explains how road salt, which is essentially table salt, melts ice.
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For more information contact Sean Moore, public affairs, University of Manitoba, 204-474-7963 (sean_moore@umanitoba.ca).

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For the fourth consecutive year, a team of students from the University of Manitoba took part in the American Association of Cereal Chemists International (AACCI) Product Development Competition held in Savannah, Georgia and walked away with a top prize.
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The team, led by food science […]

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