Innovation and entrepreneurship News Archive
Research and International
Taking the stage at the global Falling Walls Lab in Berlin
November 15, 2024 —
UM Falling Walls Lab grand-prize winner Nolan De Leon (MD, PhD) took the main stage at the global Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin, Germany.
Research and International
Four Canada Research Chairs announced at UM
November 14, 2024 —
Recently, the federal government announced support of four Canada Research Chairs (CRC) at UM. This includes three new CRCs and one CRC renewal.
Price Faculty of Engineering
2024 Technical Excellence Award
November 12, 2024 —
Alfaro is a geotechnical engineering professor, his work spans geosynthetics, ground improvement and permafrost engineering as well as stabilizing Winnipeg's riverbanks and protecting the city's century-old aqueduct from ground vibrations.
Research and International
UM researchers using AI to improve cancer research and early detection of genetic diseases
November 7, 2024 —
UM researchers are developing new genomics methods with the potential to reveal the genetic mechanisms behind human health and disease.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
First-ever oral cancer screening pop-up clinic held on Bannatyne campus
November 4, 2024 —
More than 100 people were screened for oral cancer at a pop-up clinic held in the Brodie Centre atrium.
Open Water
October 22, 2024 —
As climate change melts sea ice in Manitoba’s subarctic, northern communities explore Churchill’s future as a shipping route connecting the province to the global supply chain. See how UM scientists at the Churchill Marine Observatory are helping navigate the path forward
Desautels Faculty of Music
Music Education for a Prairie Town: Decolonizing and Indigenizing School Music by Focusing on the Local
October 11, 2024 —
Dr. Jody Stark has received just over $60 000 from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to develop and pilot a local music pedagogy that responds to and incorporates various music scenes and ways people make and enjoy music in Winnipeg, Canada.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
UM team receives $6.9 million to test pneumonia treatment and expand network of research sites
August 13, 2024 —
An international, UM-led clinical trial to assess the effects of a steroid drug on patients hospitalized with pneumonia has been awarded $6.9 million by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Research and International
Medical breakthrough provides hope for early risk stratification of a deadly blood cancer
August 8, 2024 —
Dr. Sabine Mai publishes groundbreaking study shows early risk stratification of smoldering multiple myeloma, a precursor state to multiple myeloma, a deadly form of blood cancer.
Asper School of Business
Willing to fail, unwilling to give up
August 1, 2024 —
A little over a year before UM student Tinashe Mutamangira was preparing his Dragon’s Den Season 19 audition, he was preparing his business plan for the 2023 Stu Clark New Venture Championships.