Dream Big
Campus will be bustling this week with lectures, demonstrations, and exhibitions for Dream Big, a series of events that brings together major figures in space…
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Women in science at the U of M
This week is International Women’s Week, and to observe the occasion, let’s take a look at women in the sciences at the University of Manitoba….
Women in the sciences: Hall of fame
Women have been contributing to the sciences for a great number of years. Here is a brief list of only a small fraction of the…
U of M gains seat in NSERC
Digvir Jayas, the University of Manitoba’s vice president (research and international) has recently been appointed to the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada…
The spread of superbugs
Researchers from Newcastle University, U.K., and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, recently shed light on a growing health concern. Published in the journal Environmental…
Video games to help battle dyslexia
Playing video games is not only for the fangirls and fanboys (although that new Deadpool game sure looks great). They can also be used to…
U of M engineering student wins first place at Sunnybrook Prize competition
University of Manitoba engineering student Cameron MacGregor is the winner of the third annual Sunnybrook Prize competition for internship research in biomedical engineering, held at…
<strong>CS Women</strong>
The Computer Science Students’ Association (CSSA) has announced that they will be sending two teams to the 2014 Computer Science (CS) Games, one of which…
Plastics polluting the waters
We live in an age of being environmentally conscious about our planet, so it is no surprise when topics like pollution cause a stir within…
Improving our health care
On the morning of Jan. 14, Harvey V. Fineberg, winner of the 2013 Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research, paid a visit to…