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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Always a Mentor
December 18, 2025 —
This academic year, Judith Scanlan [Cert.Nurs.(T&S)/66, BN/67, M.Ed./83, PhD/96], associate professor of nursing, is marking an extraordinary 51 years of teaching at UM.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
UM project to enlist community members in improving services for patients with HIV, other infections
December 18, 2025 —
An innovative UM-led project will train people with lived experience from across the Prairies to work with researchers on developing clinical trials focused on HIV and sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections (STBBIs), such as gonorrhea and syphilis.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Pharmacy students honour outstanding educators at annual awards
December 18, 2025 —
Three educators who go above and beyond to inspire future pharmacists were celebrated for their teaching excellence at the College of Pharmacy’s 2025 Academic Awards Ceremony.
Asper School of Business
Giving Back with the President’s Student Leadership Program
December 18, 2025 —
Learn how students in the seventh cohort of the President's Student Leadership Program recently made an impact on their communities.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Chronic diseases decline, but diabetes shows alarming growth, new Manitoba ‘health atlas’ reveals
December 18, 2025 —
The rates of heart attacks, strokes and nearly every major chronic disease have declined over the past two decades in Manitoba, but the rate of diabetes is soaring, says a comprehensive data study conducted by the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) at the University of Manitoba.
Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management
Cultivating tomorrow’s leaders
December 17, 2025 —
Gagnon says the leaders and supervisors, the people who are with the campers every day, are the ones who make the biggest difference tothe camp experience.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Infections of Inequity
December 17, 2025 —
Souradet Shaw [BA/97, M.Sc./09, PhD/18] is an expert at analyzing public health data to shed light on the spread of infectious diseases.
Faculty of Law
Legal Clinic outreach to Northern Manitoba
December 16, 2025 —
From November 27–28, 2025, law students from the University of Manitoba’s L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic and the Manitoba Legal Clinic for the Arts travelled to The Pas to bring free legal services to northern residents. It was their second visit to the town in recent years, following a trip to Thompson last spring.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Holiday message from the Rady Faculty deans
December 16, 2025 —
Season's Greetings, everyone, and congratulations on all the hard work you have put in this year across the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences.
Faculty of Law
Tréchelle Bunn’s extraordinary year
December 16, 2025 —
Tréchelle Bunn has been having an extraordinary year – make that two years. Since first setting foot in Robson Hall, the third-year law student from Wampum, Manitoba, has been making a huge impact on every community she is part of, be it furthering Truth and Reconciliation, or working to improve access to justice for incarcerated persons. From organizing an annual Reconciliation Run in her home community of the Birdtail Sioux First Nation to speaking before the United Nations Human Rights Council on behalf of Indigenous Peoples, Bunn proceeds with quiet determination and a passion for challenges.