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Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning

November is the 3rd Annual Entrepreneurship and Innovative Thinking Month

October 14, 2025 — 
2025 marks our third annual Entrepreneurship and Innovative Thinking month at the University of Manitoba.

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Barret Monchka smiles at the camera while standing outside the Brodie Centre. In the background, the entrance to the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences is visible.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

AI-powered health data research by Rady PhD student aims to improve patient outcomes and privacy

October 8, 2025 — 
Barret Monchka, a PhD student at the College of Community and Global Health (CCGH) in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, is advancing data linkage using artificial intelligence and improving patient data protection.

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Research and International

Undergraduate researcher explores Arctic engineering innovation

September 19, 2025 — 
Not many undergraduate students can say they spent their summer designing helium drone airships, assessing the density of whale blubber and figuring out how to effectively spin satellites in magnetic liquid

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A figure standing on the top of the world with a triangle illustrating its voice, reflecting the northern lights

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

Asper School of Business

Turning a passion project into a side hustle business

September 5, 2025 — 
With help from the Stu Clark Centre’s Side Hustle Course, UM alum Emily Thoroski turned her passion for science and music into The Environmental Musician.

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Sabine Mai

Research and International

Medical breakthrough provides hope for early risk stratification of a deadly blood cancer

November 29, 2024 — 
Dr. Sabine Mai publishes groundbreaking study shows early risk stratification of smoldering multiple myeloma, a precursor state to multiple myeloma, a deadly form of blood cancer.  

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Nolan De Leon holds his signature skateboard on the red carpet at the Falling Walls Lab in Berlin.

Research and International

Taking the stage at the global Falling Walls Lab in Berlin

November 15, 2024 — 
UM Falling Walls Lab grand-prize winner Nolan De Leon took the main stage at the global Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin, Germany.

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Research and International

Can mental illness be passed down through generations?

November 14, 2024 — 
Dr. Amani Hamad, assistant professor of community health sciences, has been awarded a prestigious Canada Research Chair in population data science and data curation.

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Research and International

Four Canada Research Chairs announced at UM

November 14, 2024 — 
Recently, the federal government announced support of four Canada Research Chairs (CRC) at UM. This includes three new CRCs and one CRC renewal.

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Research and International

New Canada Research Chair using AI to improve quality of life in older populations

November 13, 2024 — 
In the next five years, the senior population in Canada is projected to exceed 9.5 million individuals, comprising approximately 23 percent of the total population. 

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