UM Today Archives

December 12, 2025 —  What's one of the only places you can go grocery shopping and clubbing at the same time for free? Filipino grocery chain Seafood City. But the secret to the success of the pop-ups might be part of a larger trend.

December 12, 2025 —  Dr. Hannah Wallace, Lead Research Associate in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases at the University of Manitoba with expertise in viral immunology, said it is strange that after years of avian influenza circulating in North America there would be so many bird deaths at once. 

December 11, 2025 —  “Someone with mental-health conditions, they (try) multiple medications, and sometimes it takes months or years to get to a point where those drugs work for them, or to have less side effects,” said Dr. Abdullah Maruf, the lead investigator on the study and assistant professor in U of M’s College of Pharmacy.

December 11, 2025 —  What does it take to land a job at a high-profile pharmaceutical company like Pfizer? For Daryl Fediuk [B.Sc.(Pharm.)/03, PhD/12], it all started 24 years ago with a summer job in a UM lab.

December 11, 2025 —  Jason Shields, an assistant professor in the Department of Interior Design in the Faculty of Architecture is leading a project to preserve a 400-foot concrete mural crafted by late Canadian artist Bruce Head and titled “The Wall.”.

December 10, 2025 —  On Dec. 16, the Office for Equity Transformation and the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management are hosting a webinar to celebrate the launch of a book titled Inclusion and Equity in Outdoor Leisure. The book co-edited by FKRM Assistant Professor, Dr. Mandi Baker.

December 10, 2025 —  Dr. Divya Ramachandran, Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Manitoba, speaks with CBC's Marjorie Dowhos about how connecting the return of American products to charity may change Canadian consumer attitudes.

December 10, 2025 —  An exhibit featuring student photography that examines health and social issues took place on Dec. 2 on the Fort Garry campus.

December 10, 2025 —  Asper School Professors Chi Liao, Sean Buchanan, Mohammad Eslami, and Wei Wang were celebrated during the 2025 Associates Awards.

December 10, 2025 —  Dr. Britt Drögemöller's lab team is the first in the world to harness two kinds of unique large-scale data to develop a polygenic risk score for cisplatin-induced hearing loss.