Dr. Oluwatoyosi Adaramodu (Lisa) from the department of biological sciences at the Faculty of Science is one of the challengers at the 2026 Three Minute Postdoc (3MP). Her research is titled "Linking Natural Genetic Variation to Cell-Type-Specific Mechanisms of Water-Stress Response in Rice" 🌾

Jason Gibbs, associate professor and department head in the Department of Entomology (Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences) will present a seminar titled "How I learned to love the most hated native bees." 📍 207 Buller 🗓️ September 18 at 3:30 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

Join the Manitoba Group in Protein Structure and Function Seminar Series for a lecture by Joanna Slusky. Slusky is a professor and associate chair in the department of molecular biosciences at the University of Kansas. 📍 207 Buller 🗓️ Oct 7 at 2:30 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

Madhawa Hulangamuwa, PhD candidate in the Department of Statistics at UM, will present a seminar titled "Bagging with ranked set sampling." 📍 EITC E2-160 🗓️ September 17 at 2:45 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

Associate Dean Carrie Madden will host the first drop-in sessions for those who want to chat about the student experience. 🎉⁠ Date: September 18, 2026⁠ Time: drop by any time between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m Location: SSA lounge

MSc candidate Heshani Mendis (Department of Statistics) will defend their thesis, "Flexible tree ensembles with data adaptive splitting rules." 📍 201 Biological Sciences Building and online via Zoom 🗓️ September 3 at 1:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

Advising, classes, student clubs, emails, socials, posters, community and so much more on your mind when you get on campus! 🥳 Your new associate dean for student experience, Carrie Madden welcomes you and wants you to say hi whenever you see her on campus! 👋 youtu.be/nm3v7xr7cnk

Welcome back students, 2026

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MSc candidate Alexander Senden (Department of Computer Science) will defend their thesis, "Deep generative dataset augmentation via layout conditioned diffusion transformers for downstream image segmentation." 📍 EITC E2-461 🗓️ August 31 at 1:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

MSc candidate Dhanushka M. Roshan (Department of Computer Science) will defend their thesis, "Multi-objective dynamic data-driven electric vehicle route planning." 📍 Hosted online via Teams 🗓️ August 25 at 9:30 a.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

MSc candidate Gayathri Subasinghe (Department of Statistics) will defend their thesis titled "Support vector regression with a novel ϵ-insensitive loss function." 📍 Hosted online via Zoom 🗓️ August 18 at 1:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

MSc candidate Madhawa Hulangamuwa (Department of Statistics) will defend their thesis titled "Bootstrap aggregating (bagging) with ranked set sampling." 📍 111 Armes and online via Zoom 🗓️ August 17 at 1:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

MSc candidate Goyumi (Lavanya) Kumarasiri (Department of Statistics) will defend their thesis, "Instrumental variable estimation in linear models with censored and mismeasured covariates." 📍 Hosted online via Zoom 🗓️ August 19 at 2:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

PhD candidate Xiaohua (Emma) Liu(Department of Statistics) will defend their thesis titled "A Bayesian approach to model selection and response optimization on data with a multistratum structure." 📍 Hosted online via Zoom 🗓️ August 19 at 9:00 a.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

MSc candidate Adham Sami (Department of Statistics) will defend their thesis titled "Quaternion tensor regressions and applications." 📍 Hosted online via Zoom 🗓️ August 17 at 10:00 a.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

That’s a wrap for Wawatay Summer Orientation 2026! It has been an incredible few weeks where students had the opportunity to build new friendships, strengthen their connections to the science community, and take part in a wide range of engaging, hands-on learning experiences. ⁠

MSc candidate Sanha Kil (Department of Statistics) will defend their thesis titled "Second-order least squares method for statistical inference in linear models with asymmetric errors." 📍 Hosted online via Zoom 🗓️ August 11 at 2:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

Would you like to see what the undergraduate students have been working on all summer in the labs? 👀

MSc candidate Emmanuel Segun-Lean (department of computer science) will defend their thesis titled "Exploring the feasibility of interactive storytelling as an anti-ageism intervention for older adults." 📍 EITC E2-461 🗓️ August 14 at 1:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

Wawatay Summer Orientation 2026 has been an incredible journey so far. Throughout the orientation, students have had the chance to connect with one another with so much variety of hands-on learning opportunities. 🎉

MSc candidate Md Nahidul Islam Opu (Department of Computer Science) will defend their thesis titled "The limits and promise of software-metric-based prediction: From method-level bugs to app popularity." 📍 EITC E2-461 🗓️ August 5 at 1:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

PhD candidate Jervis Gallanosa will defend their thesis, "Finite-sample-optimized nonparametric asymptotic confidence intervals for the mean and tests for change in the mean and regression coefficients." 📍 Zoom 🗓️ July 29 at 8:30 a.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

Applications have launched for the 2027 cohort of McCall MacBain Scholars! 🎉⁠

MSc candidate Md Shahidul Islam (Department of Computer Science) will defend their thesis titled "Improving our understanding of test code: Technical debt and evolution." 📍 EITC E2-461 🗓️ August 6 at 1:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

The Department of Microbiology is Canada’s only stand-alone Microbiology Department, offering students the opportunity to explore viruses, bacteria, fungi, and microbial communities through cutting-edge research and discovery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Z9... #Chemistry #UManitoba #UManitobaSci

MSc candidate Samuel Barrett (department of computer science) will defend their thesis titled ""Design your robot to listen attentively: A novel backchanneling authoring interface for non-experts." 📍 Hosted online via Zoom 🗓️ August 4 at 9:00 a.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

The 2026 Wawatay Summer Orientation started last week, and the students are having so much fun. Wawatay’s summer orientation offers an enriching experience, from engaging campus tours to exciting icebreakers and social events. 🥳

MSc candidate Shalini Jayanetti Arachchi (Department of Statistics) will defend their thesis titled "Causal discovery and causal effect estimation using time series data." 📍 304 Biological Sciences Building and online via Zoom 🗓️ July 24 at 9:00 a.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

MSc candidate Simran Panthi (department of computer science) will defend their thesis titled "Investigating Technology Support for Older Adults to Play Bingo Online." 📍 EITC E2-461 🗓️ July 24 at 1:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

Before a mineral becomes a battery, an alloy becomes an airplane part or a polymer becomes packaging, somebody has to understand those materials inside and out. That work happens at the Manitoba Institute for Materials (MIM) and Manitoba Isotope Research Facility (MIRF).

PhD candidate Samuel Morrissette (department of statistics) will defend their thesis, "Bayesian methods for the analysis of dissimilarities." 📍 304 Biological Sciences Building and online 🗓️ July 8 at 1:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...