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Research funding may not sustain universities’ research
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While provincial funding for research at the University of Manitoba has increased over the past five-years, the level of funding the university receives may not be enough to sustain the amount of research it...
Cangene Plasma Centre opens on U of M campus
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Cangene Plasma Resources Winnipeg, also known as the Rh Plasma Centre, recently celebrated the grand opening of its new location at University of Manitoba, on Innovation Drive.
Cangene, founded in 1984, with its headquarters located...
New research project aims to improve access for media
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A new project at the University of Manitoba is looking to create better access for the media on research covering health policy topics.
The Best Evidence Network project will link journalists to academics who...
U of M Aboriginal community outraged by racist classified ad
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Aboriginal students at the University of Manitoba are outraged over an online classified ad offering free “extraction” and “relocation” of Aboriginal youth from within city limits to reserves or areas of the city with...
2010 UMSU general election results
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Unofficial, partial results:
2374 ballots were cast — just over 10 per cent of eligible voters at U of M
309 were international students
1586 identified as women
1522 identified as Aboriginal
1422 identified as LGBTT*
1527 identified as students...
UMSU elections Facebook-free
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This year, the supplementary rules for the upcoming University of Manitoba Students Union (UMSU) election campaigns bans candidates from using Facebook.com to gain support for their campaigns.
After the supplementary rules were brought to UMSU...
Science opinions
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If you’ve been keeping up with news from Afghanistan in recent years you’ll know that a significant problem for NATO governments is the rapid growth in illicit opium poppy farming and export from that...
