News Release: China/Manitoba Partnerships Celebrated [2010]

News Release: China/Manitoba Partnerships Celebrated

October 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Agriculture, Asper School, Education, Engineering,Health, History, International Centre for Students, Medicine, News Release, Nursing,Outreach, Research, Social Work, conference, economics, human ecology, political studies

An academic symposium highlighting partnerships created between China and Canada during the past 40 years, will be held October 23, 2010, in Winnipeg. The focus will be on the numerous research and cultural partnerships that have been forged between China and the University of Manitoba during the past few decades.

The conference brings together Canadian academics and their counterparts at several Chinese universities, plus government representatives from Manitoba.

Among the topics that will be covered are:

• Social work with rural women in China
• Responding to HIV/AIDS prevention in China
• A nursing collaboration between the University of Manitoba and Sichuan University
• Canola genetics research
• Medical education partnering between Shantou University and the University of Manitoba
• Collaboration on grain storage and handling research
• Agricultural Student Transfer Programs between China and Manitoba
• Product Recalls and Reactions Against China (cf. http://bit.ly/a5DKNr)

“The University of Manitoba has partnership agreements with forty-nine different institutions in China, some dating back to the 1980s,” says Digvir Jayas, vice-president (research). “This sharing of information and knowledge has greatly benefited both of our countries.”

More than 100 University of Manitoba faculty are involved in Chinese/Canadian research partnerships. More than 40 per cent of the 2,165 international students enrolled at the University of Manitoba are from China.