2020 Featured Faculty and Staff

March

Explore home, belonging, and civic duty with Dr. Eliakim Sibanda

April

The first episode of Research Question, a podcast that profiles researchers at The University of Winnipeg provides insight into the research questions Dr. Craig Willis has about managing wildlife diseases in the wake of global bat-borne pandemics like COVID-19.

May

A full “pantry” of data collected last summer has kept Dr. Janis Thiessen, Kent Davies, and Kimberley Moore’s SSHRC-funded Manitoba Food History project trucking along despite the need to work remotely.

June

The University of Winnipeg’s Centre for Research in Cultural Studies (CRiCS) offers a series, COVID-19 and Cultural Studies: Articulating the Pandemic, that will unfold through the summer and potentially into the fall term. Each published story in the series also has embedded audio, with the author’s voices.

September

UWinnipeg biologist, Dr. Caleb Hasler heads Canadian Aquatic Resources Section

October 

Dr. Jerry Fontaine's new book shares Ojibway-Anishinabe vision for future

November

The University of Winnipeg’s partnership with Enterprise Machine Intelligence and Learning Initiative (EMILI) was recently featured at a virtual Agriculture Enlightened conference aimed at advancing collaboration between industry and academia. Dr. Christopher Bidinosti, Department of Physics, and Dr. Christopher Henry, Department of Applied Computer Science, are leading the multi-disciplinary project.

UWinnipeg launches Master In Environmental & Social Change

Dr. Sandra Kirby has been appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada for “her pioneering research on athlete harassment and for her sustained efforts as an advocate for equity, inclusion and safety in sport.”

December

In the most recent Research Question podcast, Dr. Mary Jane Logan McCallum explains why it's so important to look to history to understand present day forms of structural racism.

Dr. Jaime Cidro leads innovative partnership supporting urban Indigenous women throughout their pregnancies.

UWinnipeg professor Dr. Nora Casson co-led a new report looking at the impact of climate change on winters in the northern forest region.