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The Vice-President (Academic) and Provost is the senior academic officer at the University of Manitoba and is responsible for providing academic vision at the University and leadership in all matters relating to students and academic staff, including academic programs, long-range academic planning, and enrolment management. All human resource and immigration matters related to The University of Manitoba faculty are the responsibility of this office.

Biography
Dr. Joanne Keselman received her doctoral degree in quantitative psychology from the University of Manitoba in 1978.  From 1997 until 2008, she served as the University’s Vice-President (Research); prior to assuming this position, she served for five years as Associate Vice-President (Research).  In 2009, she was appointed to her current position as Vice-President (Academic) & Provost at the University of Manitoba.

Dr. Keselman is a Professor of Psychology. Her area of expertise is applied statistical analysis, and she has published extensively on such topics as the analysis of repeated measures designs, multiple comparison procedures, multivariate analysis, and meta-analysis. Dr. Keselman is a member of numerous associations and professional associations. She is a member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and its Executive, Governance and Nominations Committee, and the Premier of Manitoba’s Economic Advisory Council and its Executive Committee.  She is also co-chair of the Province of Manitoba’s Innovation Council and a member of the Government of Canada’s Tri-Agency Panel on Responsible Conduct of Research.   She previously served on the boards of directors of ArcticNet, ISIS Canada, and the International Centre for Infectious Diseases, and is the past Chair of the board of directors of RESOLVE, a prairie research network on family violence, and of the advisory board of the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals. She also previously served for seven years as a member of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and its Executive Committee, including five years as Council Vice-President.