Featured News Archive
![Reagan Croy, occupational therapy student](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Reagan-Croy-1-150x150.jpg)
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Occupational therapy student honoured by Manitoba 150
March 8, 2021 —
Reagan Croy, a first-year occupational therapy student at the College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, was taken by surprise when she found out she was named to Honour 150, a list that recognizes people who “stand out for their role in making Manitoba such an amazing province.”
![Music alumna Julie Lumsden](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/DSC00867-150x150.jpg)
Music alumna finds ways to showcase talent, explore Métis heritage during pandemic
February 12, 2021 —
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we work and play, Desautels Faculty of Music alumna and rising star Julie Lumsden [BMus(Perf)/15] has continued to find ways to showcase her talent and explore her Métis heritage
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Indigenous
Honouring the Founding Father of Manitoba
February 10, 2021 —
A Louis Riel Day message from Dr. Catherine Cook, Vice-President (Indigenous)
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Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management
A safe virtual space for BIPOC students, staff & alumni
February 2, 2021 —
The FKRM student council has created a safe space for the BIPOC community to share and connect in a virtual setting.
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Three UM researchers to work with community partners to address mental health needs of overlooked populations
January 27, 2021 —
Projects to focus on the people with hearing loss, parents, and frontline health care workers
![President Michael Benarroch holds a signs that asks us to be mindful of each other](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Michael-Benarroch-Bell-Lets-Talk-crop-150x150.jpg)
A message from President Michael Benarroch on mental health
January 26, 2021 —
We have all been dealing with mental burdens beyond the norm. So, let’s talk.
![Water flows from a metal pipe into a river.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/water-in-pipe-edited-150x150.jpg)
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Research project to analyze human viruses in Winnipeg’s rivers
January 15, 2021 —
A student in the VADA Program will test treated wastewater that flows into the Red and Assiniboine Rivers for human viruses, including the one that causes COVID-19.
![Snow covers the ground and trees around the Administration Building on Fort Garry campus.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Winter-Admin-Building-UM-Today-150x150.jpg)
President Michael Benarroch update on Summer Term and supporting our collective success
January 13, 2021 —
'Thank you to faculty, students, staff and everyone for your continued resilience and commitment to UM’s mission and vision'
![An exemplary skull of a gorgonopsian collected from Zambia in 2018 and currently at the Burke Museum of Natural History. The upper canine of this specimen is broken and would have extended below the lower jaw. Photo credit: Brandon Peecook](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/NHCCLB936-150x150.jpg)
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
UM researcher part of team that finds surprising connection between dinosaurs and mammals
December 23, 2020 —
Kirstin Brink is part of a team that discovered that gorgonopsians, early ancestors to mammals and not related to dinosaurs, have very similar tooth structure to carnivorous dinosaurs.
![Holiday graphic with admin building in snow globe.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/HolidayGreeting2020-UMToday_1200x800_FNL-150x150.jpg)
A year end message from President Benarroch
December 17, 2020 —
'This year, 2020, has demanded that we let go of so many daily practices and cherished traditions that brought meaning and connection to our lives'