A new research and education partnership between the University of Manitoba, Denmark’s Aarhus University, and the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources brings together more than 200 of the world’s leading Arctic researchers.
This summer, David Barnard, University of Manitoba President and Vice-Chancellor, met his counterparts from Denmark and Greenland to sign the Arctic Science Partnership (ASP) […]

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University of Manitoba researchers are available to speak to members of the media today about our warm and dry winter.
It’s expected to reach 7 C in Winnipeg today and so little snow has fallen you could mow a lawn. Is this weather indicative of our new climate? Is it even fair to say this weather […]

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Visionary Conversations is a speaker series at the University of Manitoba hosted by president and vice-chancellor Dr. David T. Barnard. Some of the university’s leading minds share their insight on issues affecting our world and how the decisions we make today will shape our future.
For the next event, titled “‘Oh the Weather Outside is Frightful’: […]

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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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The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), today announced new funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) of $700,547 to three University of Manitoba researchers who are working on projects that will directly impact agricultural and food science research initiatives.
“The investments being announced today at the University of Manitoba will further […]

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On Wednesday, August 31, 2011, at 2:00 pm, there will be a tour of the Trace Gas Manitoba (TGAS MAN) greenhouse gas research site at the University of Manitoba Glenlea Research Station.
Media are invited to join the tour and learn about field scale greenhouse gas (GHG) research and mitigation at the TGAS MAN Research Site. […]

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The University of Manitoba’s Drought Research Initiative will take the first steps towards addressing climatic extremes in Canada.
Researchers from across Canada who study extremes – from droughts to floods – will gather at the Inn at the Forks in Winnipeg for a two-day workshop beginning on Feb. 7.
Climate extremes are arguably the most significant issue […]

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