Biologist Gordon Goldsborough and his graduate student Richard Grosshans discuss the benefits of cattails.
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The Delta Marsh Field Station, operated by the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Science, will be evacuated temporarily because of flooding concerns.
Mark Whitmore, dean of science, notes: “To protect the safety of our employees, we will officially evacuate the station on April 1, 2011. This date was chosen based on provincial predictions that we could […]

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Melissa Bailey, the University of Manitoba’s 93rd Rhodes Scholar, has received another award: the Canadian Association of Co-operative Education (CAFCE) student of the year.
CAFCE chooses one Canadian university student each year to receive this award. Since 1994 this award has recognized a wide variety of achievements — job performance, academic performance and responsibility, and particular […]

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The University of Manitoba is honoured to announce that Melissa Bailey and Jody Reimer are recipients of Rhodes Scholarships for 2011. This continues the excellent record for University of Manitoba students winning Rhodes Scholarships, bringing the total to 95 students, more than any other university in Western Canada. The Rhodes Scholarships are the most prestigious […]

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Research by undergraduate students will shine for the public during an upcoming competition of posters outlining their projects and findings.
Fifty-eight budding researchers will go head-to head in a handful of categories at the fifth annual Undergraduate Student Research Poster Competition scheduled for Nov. 5 at University Centre on the Fort Garry campus. These categories include: […]

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University of Manitoba researchers are studying various aspects of Lake Winnipeg and freshwater systems, which are the recent focus of a government cleanup effort.

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As the world recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of man’s landing on the moon, the University of Manitoba is hosting a Manitoba Space Adventure Camp designed to make “space” accessible to all Manitoba students.”Forty years ago, space was reserved for the very few,” says Witold Kinsner of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of […]

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