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Join us as we discover the unknown + invent the future 🪐
Join us as we discover the unknown + invent the future 🪐
“Breaking barriers: 2SLGBTQIA+ representation and inclusion in science” is back for the third year on November 21, 2025. This year’s lecture is held by Dr. Sarah Veatch, titled "Using physics to function: How cells use phase transitions at membranes to sense and respond to changing environments."
October 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“Breaking barriers: 2SLGBTQIA+ representation and inclusion in science” is back for the third year on November 21, 2025. This year’s lecture is held by Dr. Sarah Veatch, titled "Using physics to function: How cells use phase transitions at membranes to sense and respond to changing environments."
Congratulations to all Fall 2025 graduates, we are proud of all that you’ve accomplished!
October 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Congratulations to all Fall 2025 graduates, we are proud of all that you’ve accomplished!
Join us for a lecture and panel discussion to recognize 2SLGBTQIA+ STEM Day on November 21!
Dr. Veatch will share a lecture titled "Using physics to function: How cells use phase transitions at membranes to sense and respond to changing environments."
Dr. Veatch will share a lecture titled "Using physics to function: How cells use phase transitions at membranes to sense and respond to changing environments."
October 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Join us for a lecture and panel discussion to recognize 2SLGBTQIA+ STEM Day on November 21!
Dr. Veatch will share a lecture titled "Using physics to function: How cells use phase transitions at membranes to sense and respond to changing environments."
Dr. Veatch will share a lecture titled "Using physics to function: How cells use phase transitions at membranes to sense and respond to changing environments."
Dr. Juliana Schulz, associate professor in the department of decision sciences at HEC Montréal, will present a seminar titled "Checking assumptions: what we can and cannot do."
📍 330 Allen
🗓️ Oct 16 at 2:45 p.m.
📍 330 Allen
🗓️ Oct 16 at 2:45 p.m.
October 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Dr. Juliana Schulz, associate professor in the department of decision sciences at HEC Montréal, will present a seminar titled "Checking assumptions: what we can and cannot do."
📍 330 Allen
🗓️ Oct 16 at 2:45 p.m.
📍 330 Allen
🗓️ Oct 16 at 2:45 p.m.
PhD candidate Lilian Wiens (department of biological sciences) will defend their thesis, “Blood metabolomes and molecular markers of cellular aging in wild fish.”
📍 304 Biological Sciences Building
🗓️ Oct 17 at 1:30 p.m.
📍 304 Biological Sciences Building
🗓️ Oct 17 at 1:30 p.m.
October 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
PhD candidate Lilian Wiens (department of biological sciences) will defend their thesis, “Blood metabolomes and molecular markers of cellular aging in wild fish.”
📍 304 Biological Sciences Building
🗓️ Oct 17 at 1:30 p.m.
📍 304 Biological Sciences Building
🗓️ Oct 17 at 1:30 p.m.
Join the Fall 2025 High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud Computing Workshop, open to all researchers from Manitoba institutions.
Date: October 14 to 17, 2025
Location: Room 204, St. John’s College (92 Dysart Road)
Date: October 14 to 17, 2025
Location: Room 204, St. John’s College (92 Dysart Road)
October 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Join the Fall 2025 High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud Computing Workshop, open to all researchers from Manitoba institutions.
Date: October 14 to 17, 2025
Location: Room 204, St. John’s College (92 Dysart Road)
Date: October 14 to 17, 2025
Location: Room 204, St. John’s College (92 Dysart Road)
Congratulations to all the recipients of the 2024 Merit Awards! A special shoutout to the exceptional recipients from the Faculty of Science.
October 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Congratulations to all the recipients of the 2024 Merit Awards! A special shoutout to the exceptional recipients from the Faculty of Science.
Join us for this speaker series to explore the vast and amazing places that a UM science degree can take you!
October 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Join us for this speaker series to explore the vast and amazing places that a UM science degree can take you!
Join the upcoming Graduate Student Research Series workshops on Zotero and Endnote to learn how to manage your sources efficiently. Register for all workshops to receive credit on your Experience Record (Co-Curricular Record)
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September 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Join the upcoming Graduate Student Research Series workshops on Zotero and Endnote to learn how to manage your sources efficiently. Register for all workshops to receive credit on your Experience Record (Co-Curricular Record)
For more information, lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/calendar/lib...
For more information, lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/calendar/lib...
The first episode of The Science Lens is live! 🎉 We asked Houda and Abishek to weigh in on which is more important in their day-to-day, data or intuition? 🧠📊
Join us to discover the unknown and invent the future!
#TheScienceLens
Join us to discover the unknown and invent the future!
#TheScienceLens
September 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The first episode of The Science Lens is live! 🎉 We asked Houda and Abishek to weigh in on which is more important in their day-to-day, data or intuition? 🧠📊
Join us to discover the unknown and invent the future!
#TheScienceLens
Join us to discover the unknown and invent the future!
#TheScienceLens
The first episode of The Science Lens is live! 🎉 We asked Houda and Abishek to weigh in on which is more important in their day-to-day, data or intuition? 🧠📊
Join us to discover the unknown and invent the future!
#TheScienceLens #UManitoba #UManitobaSci
Join us to discover the unknown and invent the future!
#TheScienceLens #UManitoba #UManitobaSci
September 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The first episode of The Science Lens is live! 🎉 We asked Houda and Abishek to weigh in on which is more important in their day-to-day, data or intuition? 🧠📊
Join us to discover the unknown and invent the future!
#TheScienceLens #UManitoba #UManitobaSci
Join us to discover the unknown and invent the future!
#TheScienceLens #UManitoba #UManitobaSci
This is The Science Lens: the Faculty of Science podcast at the University of Manitoba. Together, let’s discover the unknown and invent the future.
September 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This is The Science Lens: the Faculty of Science podcast at the University of Manitoba. Together, let’s discover the unknown and invent the future.
Join the Manitoba Group in Protein Structure and Function Seminar Series for a lecture by Anja Thalhammer, this lecture is titled "The unstructured advantage: LEA proteins and the biophysics of dehydration survival."
📍 205 Armes
🗓️ Sept 17 at 3:30 p.m.
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📍 205 Armes
🗓️ Sept 17 at 3:30 p.m.
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September 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Join the Manitoba Group in Protein Structure and Function Seminar Series for a lecture by Anja Thalhammer, this lecture is titled "The unstructured advantage: LEA proteins and the biophysics of dehydration survival."
📍 205 Armes
🗓️ Sept 17 at 3:30 p.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
📍 205 Armes
🗓️ Sept 17 at 3:30 p.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
MSc candidate Kelsey Wog (department of microbiology) will defend her thesis, “Beyond cyp51: A novel reduced spore dormancy pathway confers azole resistance in Fusarium graminearum."
📍 207 Human Ecology
🗓️ September 9 at 9:30 a.m.
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📍 207 Human Ecology
🗓️ September 9 at 9:30 a.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
September 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
MSc candidate Kelsey Wog (department of microbiology) will defend her thesis, “Beyond cyp51: A novel reduced spore dormancy pathway confers azole resistance in Fusarium graminearum."
📍 207 Human Ecology
🗓️ September 9 at 9:30 a.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
📍 207 Human Ecology
🗓️ September 9 at 9:30 a.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
MSc candidate Md. Mehadi Hasan (department of mathematics) will defend his thesis, “Investigating transmission pathways of a nosocomially transmitted fungal infection."
📍 225 St. Paul's College
🗓️ August 18 at 1:00 p.m.
📍 225 St. Paul's College
🗓️ August 18 at 1:00 p.m.
August 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
MSc candidate Md. Mehadi Hasan (department of mathematics) will defend his thesis, “Investigating transmission pathways of a nosocomially transmitted fungal infection."
📍 225 St. Paul's College
🗓️ August 18 at 1:00 p.m.
📍 225 St. Paul's College
🗓️ August 18 at 1:00 p.m.
MSc candidate Julieta Novomisky Nechcoff (department of microbiology will defend their thesis, “Combining machine learning and CRISPRi to discover novel antimicrobials against Pseudomonas aeruginosa."
📍 306 Buller
🗓️ August 19 at 10:00 a.m.
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📍 306 Buller
🗓️ August 19 at 10:00 a.m.
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August 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
MSc candidate Julieta Novomisky Nechcoff (department of microbiology will defend their thesis, “Combining machine learning and CRISPRi to discover novel antimicrobials against Pseudomonas aeruginosa."
📍 306 Buller
🗓️ August 19 at 10:00 a.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
📍 306 Buller
🗓️ August 19 at 10:00 a.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
MSc candidate Ali Karoobi (department of mathematics) will defend their thesis, “Non-commutative rational functions and full Fock spaces around a matrix center."
📍 Hosted online via Zoom
🗓️ August 15 at 10:00 a.m.
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📍 Hosted online via Zoom
🗓️ August 15 at 10:00 a.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
August 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
MSc candidate Ali Karoobi (department of mathematics) will defend their thesis, “Non-commutative rational functions and full Fock spaces around a matrix center."
📍 Hosted online via Zoom
🗓️ August 15 at 10:00 a.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
📍 Hosted online via Zoom
🗓️ August 15 at 10:00 a.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
PhD candidate Sulalitha Bowala Mudiyanselage (department of statistics) will defend their thesis, “Dynamic data science applications in demand forecasting and finance."
📍 201 Biological Sciences Building
🗓️ August 14 at 9:00 a.m.
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📍 201 Biological Sciences Building
🗓️ August 14 at 9:00 a.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
August 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
PhD candidate Sulalitha Bowala Mudiyanselage (department of statistics) will defend their thesis, “Dynamic data science applications in demand forecasting and finance."
📍 201 Biological Sciences Building
🗓️ August 14 at 9:00 a.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
📍 201 Biological Sciences Building
🗓️ August 14 at 9:00 a.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
PhD candidate Hermie Monterde (department of mathematics) will defend her thesis, “Quantum pure state transfer."
📍 Hosted online via Zoom
🗓️ August 14 at 10:00 a.m.
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📍 Hosted online via Zoom
🗓️ August 14 at 10:00 a.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
August 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
PhD candidate Hermie Monterde (department of mathematics) will defend her thesis, “Quantum pure state transfer."
📍 Hosted online via Zoom
🗓️ August 14 at 10:00 a.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
📍 Hosted online via Zoom
🗓️ August 14 at 10:00 a.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
MSc candidate Tijotop Binjibon (department of mathematics) will defend their thesis, “Investigating the dynamic behavior of neurofilaments in zebrafish.”
📍 225 St. Paul's College
🗓️ August 14 at 1:00 p.m.
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📍 225 St. Paul's College
🗓️ August 14 at 1:00 p.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
August 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
MSc candidate Tijotop Binjibon (department of mathematics) will defend their thesis, “Investigating the dynamic behavior of neurofilaments in zebrafish.”
📍 225 St. Paul's College
🗓️ August 14 at 1:00 p.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
📍 225 St. Paul's College
🗓️ August 14 at 1:00 p.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
PhD candidate Chandramali Piyasundara (department of mathematics) will defend their thesis, “Space-time spectral methods for PDEs on irregular domains.”
📍 225 St. Paul's College and online via Zoom
🗓️ August 13 at 9:30 a.m.
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📍 225 St. Paul's College and online via Zoom
🗓️ August 13 at 9:30 a.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
August 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
PhD candidate Chandramali Piyasundara (department of mathematics) will defend their thesis, “Space-time spectral methods for PDEs on irregular domains.”
📍 225 St. Paul's College and online via Zoom
🗓️ August 13 at 9:30 a.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...
📍 225 St. Paul's College and online via Zoom
🗓️ August 13 at 9:30 a.m.
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...