A research summit on June 20 will highlight the findings from a recently completed study: Understanding the Disability Trajectory of First Nations Families of Children with Disabilities.
The study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and was led by Roberta Woodgate, a professor in the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Nursing. Research partners […]

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The Government of Canada announced today it has awarded $2,008,479 to nine University of Manitoba research projects from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Leaders Opportunity Fund (LOF). The projects range from finding strategies to support to family caregivers to studying the effects of Type 2 diabetes on the cardiovascular system to advancing knowledge about […]

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The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has announced $2.7 million in funding for two partnership projects at the University of Manitoba. Professor Peter Kulchyski (Native Studies) will lead a team of researchers from Manitoba, across Canada, and New York on a seven-year journey to build a Canadian Consortium for Performance and Politics in […]

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Professors and brothers Ian Hudson (Economics) and Mark Hudson (Sociology) have co-authored a book on ethical consumption – Fair Trade, Sustainability and Social Change.
They are available to comment on how ethical consumption changes corporate behaviour. This issue has come up recently in the context of the deaths of the textile workers in Bangladesh and a […]

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Researchers at the University of Manitoba will receive new funding for grants and scholarships from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) over the next five years.
The money will support research in a variety of areas, including magnetism at the nanoscale, learning and memory, and geothermal energy.
The awards total $9,500,100 and were […]

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Lake Winnipeg, the tenth largest lake in the world, is in trouble. Researcher Greg McCullough is committed to finding the solutions and his work has not gone unnoticed.
The Lake Winnipeg Foundation presented McCullough with the 2012 Alexander Bajkov (1894-1955) award last night. The award is given in memory of Bajkov, one of the first […]

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The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) International Infectious Disease and Global Health (IID&GH) Training Program is offering a course that’s designed to enhance graduate and post-doctoral research training.
Arguably the most unique feature of the training program is that the major course that is held annually at one of the four international sites; bringing […]

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