UWinnipeg's Canada Research Chairs are world-class scientists and scholars from diverse backgrounds who are working on new discoveries and innovations that help our environment, health, communities and economy thrive. Meet our current chairholders.
Canada’s vast water resources are threatened by climate change, agricultural pollution, and urbanization. Dr. Nora Casson is helping us understand the changes we see in lakes, streams and wetlands in hopes of protecting them.
Chemists, like UWinnipeg's Dr. Christopher Wiebe, are creating the materials which go into your smart phones, your computer, and your batteries.
UWinnipeg's Dr. Angela Failler examines the lack of public memory regrading the worst terrorist attack in Canada's history, the 1985 Air India flight that killed all 329 passengers.
Dr. Jeff Martin is receiving a three-year Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Subatomic Physics Project Grant to support a joint project between physicists in Canada and Japan.
Dr. Ryan Bullock’s research to better understand the dynamics of environmental resource governance systems has received new funding from the federal government through the renewal of his Tier II Canada Research Chair.
Dr. Angela Failler will continue her internationally-recognized research into public memory and the afterlife of the 1985 Air India bombings, thanks to the federal government's renewal of her appointment as Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Culture and Public Memory.
Thanks to a $2.5 million Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant and a diverse and knowledgeable network of community partners, Dr. Julie Nagam's vision of creating a supportive mentorship network that allows Indigenous people to thrive and lead is coming to life.
SSHRC awarded the Thinking Through the Museum (TTTM) research network a 7-year, $2.5 million dollar Partnership Grant for Thinking Through the Museum: A Partnership Approach to Curating Difficult Knowledge in Public.
The Royal Society of Chemistry has recognized Canada Research Chairs Dr. Christopher Wiebe and Dr. Jaime Cidro's Indigenizing Chemistry at The University of Winnipeg project with a grant in support of Indigenous-based scholarships and research.
The University of Winnipeg's research funding has more than doubled in the past six years. "I am proud of the fantastic growth in research funding we’ve seen in recent years. It has surpassed expectations," said Vice-President of Research and Innovation Dr. Jino Distasio
