The media is bombarded with stories about our aging population and how this will impact society. How do we meet the needs of this increasingly older population? What changes need to happen? How do we ensure a high quality of life as we age?
Dr. Verena Menec, Canada Research Chair in Healthy Aging and Director of […]

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Civil engineering professor Ahmed Shalaby cringes when he drives by “Slippery When Wet” signs posted on the side of the road. He insists streets don’t need to be slippery, icy and potentially dangerous for motorists no matter what the weather is.

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Why have a group of commercial sex-trade workers in Kenya remained uninfected with HIV despite years of exposure to the virus?
Microbiologist Keith Fowke and his University of Manitoba colleagues are part of a global team looking for answers to this question.

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Leon Leyson, whose name was on “Schindler’s List”, will tell his story of life in Oskar Schindler’s factory at two free public lectures on March 3rd and 4th.

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Award winning architect Edward Cullinan will give a public lecture tomorrow on his life as an architect. The event is hosted by the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture and the Manitoba Association of Architects.

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The department of statistics and the Faculty of Science present a free public lecture by Jeffrey S. Rosenthal of the department of statistics, University of Toronto.
“The Curious World of Probabilities” is a lighthearted talk for a general audience, exploring what happens when we’re not sure what will happen next. Everything from lottery jackpots to airplane […]

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The 2009 John P. Zubek Memorial Lecture presents a talk by Melvyn A. Goodale, Centre for Brain and Mind, University of Western Ontario.His talk will be: “Acting without thinking: When do visually-guided actions escape conscious control?”
Human beings are capable of reaching out and grasping objects with great accuracy and precision - and vision […]

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