Research & Technology

Research & Technology

Meet some of the 2023 URA students

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Elah Ajene
This summer, the Undergraduate Research Award (URA) program welcomed over 200 students, allowing them to work alongside researchers across all disciplines. Third-year biological sciences student Sarah Cameron worked with assistant professor Az Klymiuk as a...
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A palliative approach in health care

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Elah Ajene
When Rady faculty of health sciences nursing student Jogminder Sandhu started his clinical in an acute medical surgery unit, he took the principles and approaches learned in his palliative care coursework into practice. Palliative care...
Teegan Gillich
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Team discovers new sweat bee species in the Prairies

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Elah Ajene
Back in 2017, Jason Gibbs and his wife — who were newcomers to Manitoba at the time — went to Spruce Woods Provincial Park to collect bees. While analyzing the collected samples in his lab,...
Teegan Gillich
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Unveiling the world of sports psychology

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Elah Ajene
Why do athletes sometimes thrive and sometimes don’t? Why are sports fans sometimes engaged and happy and sometimes not? This is what drives Ben Schellenberg, assistant professor in the faculty of kinesiology and recreation management. “These...
Teegan Gillich
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Inside the U of M’s Village Lab

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Elah Ajene
Gigii-bapiimin is an Ojibwe language term meaning, “we survived.” It is an expression that reflects the resilience and strength of Indigenous people. The Gigii-Bapiimin study, launched by the Village Lab — U of M’s faculty of...
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Project to examine period poverty across U of M campuses

By
Elah Ajene
Periods are a fact of life. They are a basic human biological function for nearly half the world’s population. However, many individuals face challenges in accessing basic necessities to manage menstruation due to financial or other...
Ebunoluwa Akinbo
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New research finds T. rex had scaly lips

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Elah Ajene
About 65 million years after their extinction, dinosaurs remain some of the most famous prehistoric animals, and are often depicted in popular culture. In the 1993 film Jurassic Park, the iconic Tyrannosaurus rex was portrayed...
Faith Peters

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