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Optimus Gear is designed to protect pets riding in vehicles

Keeping canines from car calamities : News

August 8, 2022 —  A family project that’s gone to the dogs

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Asper School of Business News

Young Associates host inaugural IGNITE Award and Gala Dinner : Network News

August 8, 2022 —  The Young Associates and The Associates create new opportunity to welcome new-to-Asper students to the business community

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Information Services and Technology News

Take the stress out of the first day of teaching and feel confident using your electronic classroom : Network News

August 8, 2022 —  Take the stress out of the first day of teaching and feel confident using your electronic classroom

Robson Hall Faculty of Law exterior

Faculty of Law News

Faculty of Law expands clinical options for experiential learning : Campus News

August 5, 2022 —  Starting this fall, third-year law students at Robson Hall have their pick of an expanded number of experiential learning, or clinical courses. Out of approximately 100 students coming into their final year of the University of Manitoba’s Juris Doctor program, over half applied for an externship opportunity to get a chance to roll up their sleeves and do some work helping clients with legal matters or seeing first-hand how law works in practice.

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Cover of Summer 2022 issue of RadyUM magazine, showing Dr. Brian Postl giving a checkup to a baby.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences News

Longtime dean of health sciences featured in new issue of RadyUM : Network News

August 5, 2022 —  Dr. Brian Postl, the long-serving dean of health sciences and medicine at UM, shares his retirement reflections in the latest issue of RadyUM magazine, now posted online.

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Update on UM’s informal flexible work arrangement for support staff for Fall Term 2022 : Campus News

August 5, 2022 —  Units will have the option for Fall Term 2022 of continuing to allow flexible work arrangements currently in place for support staff, based on their specific operational needs

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Transmission electron microscopic image of an isolate from the first U.S. case of COVID-19, formerly known as 2019-nCoV. The spherical viral particles, colorized blue, contain cross-sections through the viral genome, seen as black dots.

New research collaboration aims to better understand COVID variants : News

August 4, 2022 —  COVID-19 variants will continue to affect the global population until more solutions are found to limit transmission, and two University of Manitoba researchers are working on strategic projects that will help do just that

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The painted portrait of Dean Emeritus Dr. Garland Laliberte

Price Faculty of Engineering News

Remembering Dean Emeritus, Dr. Garland Laliberte : Network News

August 3, 2022 —  The Price Faculty of Engineering regrets to announce the passing of Dean Emeritus Dr. Garland Laliberte on July 30, 2022. 

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Call for support staff participation : Campus News

August 3, 2022 —  Digital Strategy Steering Committee and Sub-Committees

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Uber deliberately positioned itself as a tech company to avoid the regulations of the taxi industry. (Shutterstock)

Research and International News

The manipulation of Uber’s public image profoundly impacted the lives of taxi drivers : UM in the News

August 3, 2022 —  Uber’s controversial behaviour during its aggressive global expansion didn’t just help the company build its global empire, it put taxi drivers’ livelihoods at risk and negatively impacted their lives.

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