UM Today Archives

November 26, 2025 —  Designed to help Arts undergraduates deliberate on their educational and/or employment future, the Arts Career Roundtable sat over 100 students with established professionals from all ends of the employment spectrum.

November 26, 2025 —  CBC Manitoba spoke to Frank Cormier, Sociology and Criminology about how there is a gap in specialized resources like housing for people with mental health and addictions issues.

November 26, 2025 —  CTV National spoke to Phil Ferguson, Rocket scientist, and Canada Research Chair about UM's STARLab team developing a CubeSat to orbit the moon, map its surface, and collect data, marking the first Canadian-made satellite to do so.

November 26, 2025 —  Manitoba fertilizer trials search for the the sweet spot where farmers can cut nitrogen rates, with a nitrification inhibitor, without harm to yield

November 25, 2025 —  A.I. is everywhere, including on the University of Manitoba campus, and while faculty leaders say work is being done to address its use in academics. Right now, its presence is overwhelming the school’s office of academic integrity and taking professors’ focus away from their students. “Currently, we’re not ready to handle it,” said Jenna Tichon, the Vice President of the University of Manitoba Faculty Association.

November 25, 2025 —  Active Abilities Canada and the Canadian Disability Participation Project 2.0 are launching the Municipal Guide for Disability Inclusion in Recreation and Physical Activity to coincide with International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) on December 3.

November 25, 2025 —  Highly publicized grizzly bear attacks have ignited calls to reopen grizzly trophy hunts across Western Canada. The most recent push came from the B.C. Wildlife Federation, a conservation and hunting advocacy organization that called for a hunting season on grizzlies after a bear attacked a group of schoolchildren in Bella Coola, B.C., leaving two people critically injured and two others seriously hurt.

November 25, 2025 —  CTV's Rahim Ladhani has the details on the Ontario Coaching Report and speaks with Dr. Jay Johnson, a Canadian hazing researcher and Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management at the University of Manitoba

November 25, 2025 —  The Rady Faculty of Health Sciences’ Nano and Cell Imaging Facility (NCIF) has a new home on the Bannatyne campus.