Research & Technology
Conversing about death and dying
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For many older adults, long-term care homes are where they will spend their final days. In Manitoba, these are also known as personal care homes. While medical care at the end of life is...
Sleep is a cousin of death
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“Don’t fall asleep...”
This is a line that kept me up at night, made me afraid to sleep when I was younger, and a line from Nancy Thompson, the protagonist of Wes Craven’s 1984 film...
Conflict management guide for legal students
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A new edited collection titled The Other Side of the Bar: Conflict Transformation in Legal Practice brings fresh insights into how lawyers and mediators can navigate complex and multidimensional conflicts. Co-edited by Richard Jochelson, dean...
Is AI dependency a choice or a trap?
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ChatGPT has become the leading artificial intelligence (AI) large language model (LLM) since its introduction in 2022. It now receives nearly six billion monthly site visits and 700 million active weekly users — the...
Understanding capitalism’s impact on the environment
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Mark Hudson, a professor in the department of sociology and criminology at the U of M, studies how social structures and political economies influence the way people relate to the non-human world. His research...
U of M researcher innovates remedy for surgical anxiety
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Renée El-Gabalawy, an associate professor in the department of clinical health psychology at the U of M’s Max Rady college of medicine, studies how mental health affects medical care, especially pre-surgery. She is also...
Crop or weed?
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Alex Senden, a second-year master’s student in the U of M’s department of computer science, is developing artificial intelligence (AI) tools that could help researchers distinguish crops from weeds in agricultural images.
“My research is...
