Avery Simundsson – Tile Drainage Explained
Technological advances in agriculture in the past twenty years have been moving at an astonishing pace as we race to produce more food on fewer acres. We have been steadily refining our ability to track […]
Researcher Profiles
“It was devastating”: A graduate students’ thoughts on the emotional toll of the strike A week? Two weeks? A month? I was in a constant state of not knowing what was happening, or what was going to happen in the future.
In order to demonstrate how the strike affected me, I first have to make a confession: I have an anxiety disorder. My anxiety became a factor around the same time I was accepted into the […]
Raising racial identity awareness among white social workers Research profile: Joy Eidse
Joy Eidse is a Master’s student in the faculty of social work who’s exploring the role of racial identity in her field. Her thesis is focused on racial identity awareness among white social workers. On […]
Brittany Lynn Moyce: From Farm to Pharmacology
Brittany L. Moyce is a third year PhD student in the department of pharmacology and therapeutics at the University of Manitoba. Her thesis is entitled, “Altered Fatty Acid and Mitochondrial Metabolism in the Liver of […]
Communication breakdown: Expected mindreading and how it can affect your social life The significance of open communication to establishing new friendships
Are you ever frustrated when someone doesn’t seem to know how you’re feeling? Justine MacLean is a University of Manitoba graduate student studying that exact phenomenon. Entering the first year of her PhD studies in […]
Treating people like people PhD student looks to address systemic issues within the mental health system
University of Manitoba PhD student Walter Chan first connected with the disability movement in 2002 while completing his master of social work. From there, it wasn’t a far leap to join the psychiatric survivors movement […]
Catch and release Studying the migratory habits of the Canada Warbler
University of Manitoba graduate student Amélie Roberto-Charron is a migratory bird researcher currently studying the migration habits of the Canada Warbler. Roberto-Charron, who completed her undergrad in ecology at the University of Alberta, developed an […]
Talking the talk U of M linguistics student studies Cree
Irina Volchok is a University of Manitoba graduate student studying linguistics. Moving into the second year of her graduate studies, she has shifted her focus to Algonquin languages after stumbling upon them during her undergraduate […]
Music to her ears U of M graduate student sounds off on orchestral conducting
University of Manitoba music graduate student Mariana Menezes first became interested in conducting in high school. The conductor of the small ensemble she was a part of sparked her interest in the field. “I always […]
The ethics of artificial intelligence Researcher profile: Nicholas Novelli
When you think of artificial intelligence (AI) you may picture an android like Data on Star Trek, the artificial general intelligence of The Terminator‘s Skynet, or any of the many incarnations of AI that have […]