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Report links fetal exposure to diabetes with heart disease

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Sarah Doran
A new report from the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba has found that fetal exposure to diabetes may be linked to heart disease in teens and young adults. The report, published Sept. 28 in...
Jenelle McCann
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Deeper knowledge requires diversity in education

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Sarah Doran
Faculty of education associate professor Richard Hechter is currently working on three interrelated projects involving multicultural approaches to science education. The first, funded by an internal U of M grant, focuses on whether cultural narratives...
Jenelle McCann
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Pandemic lifts restrictions on biodiversity research

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Sarah Doran
While the COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous global impact, humans aren’t the only ones who found their daily lives disrupted. Two University of Manitoba researchers from the faculty of environment, earth and resources’s...
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Manitoba Rural Northern Juried Art Show goes online

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Sarah Doran
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Manitoba Rural Northern Juried Art Show (MRNJAS) has pivoted to an online format. The show, run by the Manitoba Arts Network (MAN), displays the work of...
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Video games are the future of telerehabilitation

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Sarah Doran
The rehabilitation and physical therapy process is difficult for long-term patients. Appointments can number in the hundreds and the cost of care is often steep — not to mention the mental aspect of struggling...
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Life in poverty report calls for higher minimum wage

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Sarah Doran
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released a report Aug. 27 co-authored by Jesse  Hajer, an assistant professor in economics and the labour studies program at the U of M. The report, titled...
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U of M professor to study long-term effects of vaping

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Mario Mendez Diaz
The University of Manitoba has the potential to become one of Canada’s leading universities studying the health effects of vaping. Along with two other U of M research projects, assistant professor Chris Pascoe was awarded...

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