UM Today Archives

April 12, 2021 —  Karn Chahal was nervous about beginning his first experiential rotation in a community pharmacy. He wasn’t sure if he knew as much as he should and if he would be able to apply what he’d learned in class to real-life situations.

April 12, 2021 —  Meet the 2021 MT180 Challengers

April 12, 2021 —  Nine high school students seeking admission to UM have been awarded BMO Financial Group Leaders of Tomorrow and Indigenous Leaders of Tomorrow scholarships.

April 12, 2021 —  The Winnipeg Jets, in conjunction with the National Hockey League, today announced that goaltender Connor Hellebuyck and the First Nations Pandemic Rapid Response Team’s Melanie MacKinnon have been named the NHL's Co-First Stars of the Week for the week ending April 11, 2021.

April 12, 2021 —  Chukwuebuka Idafum, Kenyo Musa & Victor Odusanya, Environmental Design students win Cool Gardens design competition

April 12, 2021 —  Researchers at the University of Manitoba are part of the project helping to make the Winnipeg sport community more inclusive and welcoming

April 12, 2021 —  “I was very grateful to work with Kevin. He was an excellent teacher. He helped to shape me into a better researcher. He inspired me.” - Christie Lavallée

April 9, 2021 —  UM researchers: Drs. Julien Arino, Stéphanie Portet, and Kang-Ling Liao, (mathematics) are part of a $10 million-dollar investment in Emerging Infectious Diseases Modeling established between the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Public Health Agency of Canada. The funding supports five multidisciplinary infectious disease modelling networks, that will significantly improve the coordination of infectious disease modelling to help Canada better respond to future public health threats.

April 9, 2021 —  Daniel Rea received the Award for the 2020 doctoral dissertation, “Now You’re Teleoperating with Power: learning from video games to improve teleoperation interfaces,” completed under the supervision of Dr. Jim Young in the UM Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCI).

April 9, 2021 —  Children may not be as infectious in spreading COVID-19 to others as previously thought, according to new University of Manitoba-led research in CMAJ Canadian Medical Association Journal.