Distinguished Professor Digvir Jayas is a father, husband, teacher, researcher, vice-president of research at the oldest university in Western Canada, and now he’s a member of the 300 club: his 300th refereed article has been approved for publication.
His first refereed article, “Finite element modelling of carbon dioxide diffusion in stored wheat”, was published in 1983 […]

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First Manitoba-based researcher elected as Foreign Fellow to National Academy of Agricultural Sciences India
Dr. Digvir S. Jayas, Vice-President (Research) and Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba has earned an international reputation as a leading researcher in effective grain storage methods. The often referred to “leader of grain storage” has been elected as the 2011 […]

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It’s referred to as ????????????? in China and its English acronym of CCRCSGE is only slightly less convoluted, but the result of the agreement signed by the University of Manitoba and four Chinese institutes is straightforward: increased food supply.

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“There are pretty big implications for this,” says physicist Johan van Lierop at the University of Manitoba. “We’ve exceeded a limit in magnetism that may point the way towards much smaller storage media.”
van Lierop’s Nanomagnetism Research Group at the University of Manitoba, in collaboration with a physicist from the University of Bristol in the United […]

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