Enrolment soars at U of M
Enrolment numbers at the University of Manitoba for 2011-12 are only 21 students short of the all-time record. This year’s first-day enrolment at the U…
September 2011
Disappearing into Thin Air
It was late at night, around this time last year, downtown Winnipeg. Just past eight o’clock, I stepped off the 62 bus and out onto…
Life on the road
Hitting the road to follow your favourite team, no matter the sport, can be an almost spiritual pilgrimage for some, and simply an excuse to…
Ready for takeoff
With just over a month to go until the first NHL regular season of the reborn franchise, the Winnipeg Jets unveiled their jerseys in a…
Game, set and match
For the better part of the last two decades, the profile of Canadian tennis had been buoyed by the success of doubles player Daniel Nestor;…
Bison athlete profile
Anthony Coombs played high school football at Sturgeon Heights before being recruited by the University of Manitoba in the spring of 2010 and was a…
Bison briefs
Golf The Bison men’s golf team were successful in their first event of the season, capturing the team title at the 2011 Concordia Invitational two-day…
Multiple sclerosis research at the U of M
According to Emma Frost, a professional associate in the University of Manitoba’s faculty of pharmacy, multiple sclerosis (MS) is a regionalized disease. “We are advocating…
How to drive forever
What if eight grams of fuel could power your car for a lifetime? What if that fuel was a radioactive element? Would you still be…
Computers designed like brains
Nature often supplies us with great ideas for engineering. Leonardo da Vinci drew concepts of flying machines based on observing birds in motion, centuries before…