MFA student Mary Stankevicius discussed the journey that took her from Ontario, to Halifax, to Kansas City, Long Beach California, back to Halifax and ultimately the University of Manitoba where she is exploring the internal flora that populate our bodies via hand-made large-scale clay sculptures.

What led Melanie Lalonde to the study of butterflies? And what's different about graduate studies at the Doctoral level from the Master's level? These questions and more with the Biological Sciences PhD student.

MSc in Biological Sciences student Ashley Tripp is just completing her research around acid-base regulations in freshwater crayfish in response to climate change and she discusses what led her to studying marine biology, where her research has taken her and why she supports the publication of negative research results.

Interdisciplinary Studies graduate student Kathleen Zawaly discusses what led her to qualitative research on the barriers to health care for the little-known but surprisingly prevalent Lynch's Syndrome.

Researching the intersection of environmental science and social justice, grad student Kristy Anderson discusses her role in Project H2O and the research she's been conducting in the Pine Creek community.

Brad Cownden is a PhD candidate in theoretical physics focusing on how to describe the universe in the moments just following the Big Bang. This was when the universe was a in a very hot, very dense state that we'll call a "plasma." This plasma was like a really thick soup made up of the insides of protons and neutrons. Hear how he's working on mathematical models to explain this, what the Hadron collider and a beach ball have to do with it, and discussed the 6 extra dimensions you likely haven't heard of.

Choral condutor Katy Harmer discusses what brought her to Winnipeg, a life spent in choirs and her involvement with the Winnipeg Beer Choir as well as her current graduate work in the Desaultel Faculty of Music

Linda Zhou describes what led her to spending an extended period of time on a farm in St. Francois Xavier and how her experiences guided her economic theories.

Transplanted Philadelphian Jessica Waldinger talks about what brought her to Winnipeg and why her research finds her spending her summers in Brooks, Alberta.

Doctoral student in economics Matthew Stargardter discusses his attempts to create a model for decision making related to Type 2 diabetes.

PhD candidate Amanda Woods discusses the path that led her from a career in research back to the classroom to work on racism as a determinant of health while incorporating Indigenous research methodology.

Biological Science MSc candidate Kelsey Johnson talks about the research that takes her to Canada's east coast during the summer season to study the diet and foraging behaviour of humpback whales in Newfoundland, research that grew out of working with Dr. Gail Davoren on capelin previously.

Jill Bueddefeld is a PhD student in the Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources and 2018 3MT finalist and People’s Choice winner. Bueddefeld’s research uncovers how nature-based tourism teaches people about the environment and their role in conservation.
http://news.umanitoba.ca/top-5...

Master's student Joy Eidse came on the show to speak about her research on racial identity awareness among white social workers.

Sardana Nikolaeva's journey from Russia to the University of Manitoba has been a lengthy and interesting one. She details what brought her here and the research in Socio-Anthropology that took her back to examine indigenous political movement growth.

PhD candidate Amanda Woods discusses the path that led her from a career in research back to the classroom to work on racism as a determinant of health while incorporating Indigenous research methodology.

Interdisciplinary Studies graduate student Kathleen Zawaly discusses what led her to qualitative research on the barriers to health care for the little-known but surprisingly prevalent Lynch's Syndrome.

Podcast of the episode can be found here.

Belinda Blair discusses her singular path - one that led her to a joint degree in Native Studies and Psychology that combines the two fields in an exploration of coded messages of whiteness in missionary educational texts from the 1830s.

Podcast of the episode can be found here.

Host of UMFM's Queer Quarks, Ley Fraser, is also a graduate student and so she moves from the host's chair to the guest's to sit down and discuss the path that brought her to the University of Manitoba and her research towards an MA in Psychology looking at social justice attitudes.

Podcast of the episode can be found here.

Jason Pchajek normally hosts This Week In Bison Sports and is one half of UMFM's Bison Men's Hockey broadcast team. But he's also a member of the UMGSA and on a special extended edition of Grad Talks he discusses his research on sports gambling.

Podcast of the episode can be found here.

Master's student in Biological Sciences, Justine Hudson, was recently featured in an article on UM Today for her entry in a Science Photography competition run by NSERC (news.umanitoba.ca/finally-a-breath…luga-whale-snot/). We talk to her about the science behind the photo and what she hopes to learn from beluga whale snot.

Podcast of the episode can be found here.

Produced in collaboration with the UMGSA, Grad Talks is a series of conversations with graduate students at the University of Manitoba about their research. This episode explores the journey that brought Eduardo Vergolino from his native Brazil to Winnipeg to study Indigenous education and what the populations of both Canada and Brazil can learn from each other.

Podcast of the episode can be found here.

Rebroadcast of March 20, 2018 episode:

Researching the intersection of environmental science and social justice, grad student Kristy Anderson discusses her role in Project H2O and the research she's been conducting in the Pine Creek community.

Rebroadcast of March 13 2018 epsiode:

Pharmacology student Taylor Morriseau's research centres on type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Oji-Cree youth, who experience some of the highest rates of T2D in the world. In the late 90s, a "genetic predisposition" was identified in the Oji-Cree in a gene called HNF-1alpha and those that carried the variant gene were "virtually certain of having diabetes by the age of 50". Despite this discovery nearly two decades ago, we still don't know how the variant actually affects diabetes development and more importantly, how the effects of colonization and food security interact with the gene variant to accelerate disease onset. We used gene editing technology to create a mouse model that expresses the genetic variant and try to understand how genes influence diabetes development. We will begin to feed these mice either a "Western" obesogenic diet to understand gene-environment interactions or a diet that reflects a traditional Oji-Cree intake with hopes of counteracting or delaying disease onset.

Rebroadcast of December 7 2017 episode:

Graduate student in city planning Lissie Rappaport joins Grad Talks to discuss her research into policies on inclusionary zoning which looks at incorporating housing at multiple income levels in any new development.

Rebroadcast of March 27, 2018 episode.

PhD candidate Amanda Woods discusses the path that led her from a career in research back to the classroom to work on racism as a determinant of health while incorporating Indigenous research methodology.

Rebroadcast of January 30 2018 episode:

Recently graduated Human Geography MA student Cheryl Sobey did a two-year participatory action research project in collaboration with Ka Ni Kanichihk on food insecurity, poverty and racism in Winnipeg that involved a group of 8 single Indigenous moms.

Rebroadcast of February 27 2018 episode:

Joey Simoes, MSc candidate in the Department of Civil Engineering discusses his research into ice formation on the Assiniboine and Red Rivers

Rebroadcast of January 16 2018 episode:

MFA student Gayle Buzzi discusses investigating the relationship Western society has with wildlife, specifically the Canadian wilderness.

Megan Bourns, in her second year of study in the Department of Soil Science in the Faculty of Agriculture shares how someone who grew up in the city ended up studying potassium levels in soil and what exactly field research entails.

Rebroadcast of October 24, 2017 - Salina Pirzada, MSc Candidate, Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology

Having recently relocated from Toronto, Pirzada discusses what brought her to the Bannatyne campus of the University of Manitoba and the research she is involved in on spatial normalization of brain MRI data in the presence of MS lesions.

PhD student Michelle Lam is using a board game to promote empathy and understanding of the refugee experience in Canada. An experienced English as an Additional Language teacher who married into a family of former refugees, her doctoral research explores refugee language learning in rural areas of Manitoba.

MSc in Biological Sciences student Ashley Tripp is just completing her research around acid-base regulations in freshwater crayfish in response to climate change and she discusses what led her to studying marine biology, where her research has taken her and why she supports the publication of negative research results.

PhD candidate in biomedical engineering Ahmed Elwali discusses his research into obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and working towards measuring tracheal breathing sound signals in patients that are awake to better screen possible OSA sufferers.

PhD candidate in Civil Engineering Shervin Gomi discusses the path that brought him to the University of Manitoba and why a childhood passion led him to studying fiber reinforced polymer in reinforced concrete (FRP-RC)structures and their resistance to earthquakes.

Biological Science MSc candidate Kelsey Johnson talks about the research that takes her to Canada's east coast during the summer season to study the diet and foraging behaviour of humpback whales in Newfoundland, research that grew out of working with Dr. Gail Davoren on capelin previously.

Doctoral student in economics Matthew Stargardter discusses his attempts to create a model for decision making related to Type 2 diabetes.

Biology Masters' student Elise Couillard discusses what led her to studying the black-tailed prairie dog and the research that took her to 5 national parks to observe "jump-yipping" behaviour in the animal and what the instigators vigilance does to help the overall population of prairie dogs in an area. She also discusses why many perceive a disconnect between Biology and Psychology (her double-major at the undergraduate level) and why she believes the two are strongly interconnected.

Brad Cownden is a PhD candidate in theoretical physics focusing on how to describe the universe in the moments just following the Big Bang. This was when the universe was a in a very hot, very dense state that we'll call a "plasma." This plasma was like a really thick soup made up of the insides of protons and neutrons. Hear how he's working on mathematical models to explain this, what the Hadron collider and a beach ball have to do with it, and discussed the 6 extra dimensions you likely haven't heard of.

PhD candidate Amanda Woods discusses the path that led her from a career in research back to the classroom to work on racism as a determinant of health while incorporating Indigenous research methodology.

Researching the intersection of environmental science and social justice, grad student Kristy Anderson discusses her role in Project H2O and the research she's been conducting in the Pine Creek community.

Pharmacology student Taylor Morriseau's research centres on type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Oji-Cree youth, who experience some of the highest rates of T2D in the world. In the late 90s, a "genetic predisposition" was identified in the Oji-Cree in a gene called HNF-1alpha and those that carried the variant gene were "virtually certain of having diabetes by the age of 50". Despite this discovery nearly two decades ago, we still don't know how the variant actually affects diabetes development and more importantly, how the effects of colonization and food security interact with the gene variant to accelerate disease onset. We used gene editing technology to create a mouse model that expresses the genetic variant and try to understand how genes influence diabetes development. We will begin to feed these mice either a "Western" obesogenic diet to understand gene-environment interactions or a diet that reflects a traditional Oji-Cree intake with hopes of counteracting or delaying disease onset.

Biological Sciences PhD student Melanie Lalonde discusses her work on evolutionary biology and more.

Joey Simoes, MSc candidate in the Department of Civil Engineering discusses his research into ice formation on the Assiniboine and Red Rivers.

Recently graduated Human Geography MA student Cheryl Sobey did a two-year participatory action research project in collaboration with Ka Ni Kanichihk on food insecurity, poverty and racism in Winnipeg that involved a group of 8 single Indigenous moms.

MFA student Gayle Buzzi discusses investigating the relationship Western society has with wildlife, specifically the Canadian wilderness.

UMGSA President Carl Neumann talks about how he got involved with the organization, the circuitous route that led him to pursuing a Masters in Philosophy and what Nietschze has to say about our contemporary world.

Transplanted Philadelphian Jessica Waldinger talks about what brought her to Winnipeg and why her research finds her spending her summers in Brooks, Alberta.

Graduate student in city planning Lissie Rappaport joins Grad Talks to discuss her research into policies on inclusionary zoning which looks at incorporating housing at multiple income levels in any new development.

Choral condutor Katy Harmer discusses what brought her to Winnipeg, a life spent in choirs and her involvement with the Winnipeg Beer Choir as well as her current graduate work in the Desaultel Faculty of Music

Composer Liam Ross Gibson is working on his graduate degree in the Desaultels Faculty of Music and he joins us on the program to share an excerpt of his music and an in-depth discussion of his studies.

Masters in Orchestral Conducting student Osvaldo Vidal Ferraz explains what led him from Brazil to Winnipeg and how a love of pop music led to his masters' work.

We kick off music month on Grad Talks with a conversation with second year composition student Nolan Krell! Nolan also shares two of his compositions with us! Each Tuesday in November we'll be joined by a different Faculty of Music student to discuss their Graduate Studies.

This week we talk to PhD student in Native Studies, Timothy Maton, about his speculation that - and research around - the idea that at Winnipeg’s Civic Centre, settler-colonials have built an architectural personification meant to express the British body as a thing completely other to the Indigenous.

Specifically Maton is addressing the corporate erasure of culture and history at Portage and Main by asking Indigenous peoples their stories about the place.

Salina Pirzada, MSc Candidate, Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology: Having recently relocated from Toronto, Pirzada discusses what brought her to the Bannatyne campus of the University of Manitoba and the research she is involved in on spatial normalization of brain MRI data in the presence of MS lesions.

Evan Tremblay, Graduate Student, Landscape Architecture: Evan joins us to pose the question: "If psytrance festivals are one organ, what would the whole body look like? What are the circuits, the relationship of the constituent parts, of a landscape that is one integrated whole or organism, of which humans are one part?"

On the first episode of Grad Talks for 2017/18, we're joined by Adam Nepon, Graudate Student from the Asper School of Business - MBA Program. Adam discusses his current research and work which is focused on Aboriginal Business and Economy as well as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Call to Action #92.