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Architect of sexual assault maps identified

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Janelle Curry
The creator of unidentified sexual assault maps, inviting people to share their experiences of sexual assault, posted in University Centre at the University of Manitoba last December has been identified as Caroline Inglis, a...
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Royal Canoe to headline Frost Fest

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Craig Adolphe
The University of Manitoba Students’ Union unveiled plans last week for their Frost Fest set to take place at the Fort Garry campus quad on Jan. 15. The lineup for the concert features local...
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Constant vigilance

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Jeremiah Yarmie
California ground squirrels have a difficult job of avoiding becoming snake food. Rather than running away, many prey animals will display a physical signal to indicate that they are aware of their predator or...
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Making protein without nucleic acid

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Jeremiah Yarmie
Genetic information being transferred from DNA to RNA to protein – this is the central dogma of molecular biology. In the standard flow of information transfer, a protein cannot build a protein, and the...
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Notes from Gnaraloo

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Bailey Rankine
January 5, 2015 We’re officially midway through sea turtle nesting season and are currently recording up to 15 activities per day here at Gnaraloo Bay Rookery, a sea turtle conservation program in Western Australia. This...
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Preventing chronic wasting disease in deer

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Jeremiah Yarmie
Prions are normal body proteins found in the brain of many animals, including humans. It is believed that prion proteins play a role in brain cell communication. Infectious prions are, lightly put, renegade zombie-proteins. They...
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Notes from Gnaraloo

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Bailey Rankine
December 2, 2014 It’s been nearly six weeks since my arrival in Western Australia (WA) and I can’t seem to decide if time is flying by or dragging on. It was a slow start, but...

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