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Rick Duha smiling, standing in front of paint drums

Alumni News

Meet the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient for Lifetime Achievement : Network News

July 22, 2025 —  Throughout his remarkable career, Rick Duha has exemplified what it means to lead with vision, integrity, and a deep commitment to community.

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Dr. John Wade in the Brodie Centre atrium.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences News

UM community mourns loss of Dr. John Wade, medicine dean emeritus : Network News

July 21, 2025 —  Dr. Peter Nickerson, dean, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and dean, Max Rady College of Medicine, and the entire UM medical community are saddened to learn of the passing of a dear colleague, John Wade [MD/60], on July 17, 2025 at age 91.

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Dr. Zulma Rueda smiling at the camera in her lab.

CTV Morning Live: Fighting HIV stigma : UM in the News

July 21, 2025 —  Dr. Zulma Rueda, Canada Research Chair in sexually transmitted infection – resistance and control at the Max Rady College of Medicine speaks to CTV Morning Live about how her team is tackling record-high HIV rates and stigma through community-led, Manitoba-made research.

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Research and International News

The Conversation: More people are considering AI lovers, and we shouldn’t judge : Network News

July 21, 2025 —  People are falling in love with their chatbots. There are now dozens of apps that offer intimate companionship with an AI-powered bot, and they have millions of users.

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Dr. Zulma Rueda smiling at the camera in her lab.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences News

#ZeroHIVStigmaDay: UM researchers highlight urgent need to address HIV stigma and care gaps : Network News

July 21, 2025 —  This #ZeroHIVStigmaDay, University of Manitoba researchers are working to reduce stigma and improve HIV care through science, collaboration with community, and the lived experience of those affected.

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An artist's impression of two black holes merging, which can be detected on Earth through the gravitational waves the collision creates. (Victor de Schwanberg/SPL)

Faculty of Science News

CBC Manitoba: Manitoba researchers part of team working to unravel mystery of largest black hole merger ever detected : UM in the News

July 20, 2025 —  Discovery helps us understand 'where we come from,' says U of M Canada Research Chair in Extreme Astrophysics

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Melina Jobbins, in the foreground, and summer student Mitchell Baker sift through rock at an Interlake quarry, looking for fossils. (Karen Pauls/CBC)

Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources News

CBC Manitoba: Move over, Jurassic Park. Manitoba was home to newly discovered 390-million-year-old extinct fish : UM in the News

July 20, 2025 —  Manitoba paleontologist identifies, renames new classification of ancient fish

pea size hail stones in a pile in someone's hand

Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources News

CBC Manitoba: Hail-focused research projects ‘long past due’ in Canada, U.S., prof says : UM in the News

July 20, 2025 —  Projects aim to minimize damage by better predicting hailstorms, hailstone sizes

The countryside around Teknaf, Bangladesh. A cloudy sky above rice fields where a few cows graze. The landscape is green with mountains in the distance.

Faculty of Law News

Voices from the Naf River : Network News

July 18, 2025 —  Dr. Kjell Anderson shares a glimpse of the research he has been doing this summer on the Rohingya Genocide based largely on the accounts of Rohingya survivors.

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BROOK JONES/FREE PRESS Poor food intake and subsequent malnutrition can lead to a host of problems for people living in long-term care, University of Manitoba professor Christina Lengyel says.

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences News

Free Press: From unpalatable to appalling : UM in the News

July 18, 2025 —  The state of long-term care home food is tough to stomach for many residents and their loved ones

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