Disruption and Innovation News Archive
![UM researcher Thilini Dissanayake holds up a canola-based product that could replace plastic.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CTV-plastic-alternative-pic-150x150.jpeg)
The end of plastic pollution starts in a field
July 28, 2023 —
How do we drop our reliance on plastic packaging? The answer just might be found in a field of canola or in a UM lab.
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Harnessing AI’s creative potential
July 24, 2023 —
Step into the fascinating world of music composition, where Örjan Sandred, Professor of Composition at Desautels Faculty of Music, is revolutionizing the creative process with the aid of AI.
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WATCH: Take a tour of UM’s futuristic ‘smart suite’
July 6, 2023 —
Tour the College of Rehabilitation Sciences' recently developed "smart suite."
![Thilini Dissanayake](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ThiliniDissanayake-150x150.jpg)
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
From plastic to protein-based packaging
June 19, 2023 —
While grocery stores may have in recent years reduced the use of plastic bags, shoppers still often come home with multiple items encased in plastic packaging. It has become such a part of our daily lives that is may seem difficult to imagine how we can escape it.
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Research and International
Building a broken heart: UM researchers to create 3D bio-printed heart muscle
May 2, 2023 —
Researchers at the University of Manitoba and the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba (CHRIM)have been awarded $250,000 over two years to advance cutting-edge three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting technology to create patient-specific heart models of those living with rare genetic diseases.
![Christine Zhang, the flow cytometry core facility manager.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Christine-Zhang-2023-1-150x150.jpg)
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Rady Faculty invests in research through cutting-edge core platforms, labs
April 24, 2023 —
Technology helps make dreams a reality.
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Gods in the machine? The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions
March 16, 2023 —
We are about to witness the birth of a new kind of religion. In the next few years, or perhaps even months, we will see the emergence of sects devoted to the worship of artificial intelligence (AI).
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Extended Education
Pondering the future of AI and Machine Learning
November 29, 2022 —
“We want our grads to be both skilled and critically reflective.” - Kari Kumar