Editor’s Picks News Archive
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Rady Faculty Vanier Scholar feels she now ‘belongs in academic research’
November 3, 2025 —
For Deanne Nixie Miao, receiving the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship has helped her feel that she fits in doing research in the lab.
What Are the Risks and Opportunities of a Changing Arctic?
September 17, 2025 —
We asked Feiyue Wang, Canada Research Chair in Arctic Environmental Chemistry at UM
How Will Connectivity Change Life in the North?
September 17, 2025 —
We asked Phi Ferguson, who leads UM’s Space Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Lab
Research and International
Opinion: Manitoba holds the key to nation building in Canada
July 17, 2025 —
In responding to calls for action, individual Canadians have been boycotting American goods and travel and rallying around the “Buy Canadian” mantra.
UM ranks 6th in Canada on Climate Action; Good Health and Wellbeing
June 30, 2025 —
The University of Manitoba ranks in Canada’s top 20 in the 2025 Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings.
Indigenous
Celebrating Indigenous Excellence: Honouring the Indigenous Campus Community 2025
June 12, 2025 —
Ten members of the Indigenous campus community at UM are being recognized this National Indigenous Peoples Day for leading transformational change and weaving Indigenous knowledges into all they do.
The Next Chancellor
May 16, 2025 —
Get to know Dave Angus, industry bridgebuilder, champion for Manitoba, and UM’s newest addition
Research and International
Healthy animals, healthy humans
March 20, 2025 —
Dr. Hooman Derakhshani, Assistant Professor in the Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, is exploring the natural gut microbiome, aiming to create the next generation of probiotics for livestock.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
UM partner clinics in Nairobi fear for HIV patients after Trump’s freeze on foreign aid
February 4, 2025 —
For 45 years, the University of Manitoba has partnered with the University of Nairobi and the non-profit Partners for Health and Development in Africa (PHDA) to achieve successful STI and HIV research, prevention, care and treatment programs to the most vulnerable communities in Kenya and in Africa.
Research and International
Newly funded research could revolutionize quantum technologies
January 22, 2025 —
A new research project is set to explore what is sometimes called ‘quantum weirdness’ in certain types of magnetic materials. Researchers are examining how excitations that can be produced in some magnetic materials through interactions with light might be used in quantum technologies.