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Students walking on Fort Garry campus in winter, near Buller Building.

COVID health and safety update

January 17, 2022 — 
Message from Diane Hiebert-Murphy, Provost and Vice-President (Academic), and Naomi Andrew, Vice-President (Administration)

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Arctic water. // Image from Pixabay.

Faculty of Graduate Studies

Protecting and preserving the North

January 12, 2022 — 
Grad students represent researchers and scholars at the leading edge of science in the North

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Samar Safi-Harb

Three new Canada Research Chairs

January 12, 2022 — 
Chairs in nutrition, health economics and extreme astrophysics

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Lanette Siragusa at a Manitoba COVID-19 news briefing in 2020.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Siragusa ‘excited to get started’ in dual role at UM

January 10, 2022 — 
Lanette Siragusa, a familiar face to Manitobans for her position in the province’s COVID-19 fight, says she hopes to be an asset to UM when she assumes her new dual role as vice-dean, education for the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and associate director of Ongomiizwin – Health Services

mage from the office of the Governor General of Canada: The insignia of the Order is a stylized snowflake of six points, with a red annulus at its centre which bears a stylized maple leaf circumscribed with the motto of the Order: DESIDERANTES MELIOREM PATRIAM–Latin for “They desire a better country”.

Members of UM community promoted, added to Order of Canada

January 7, 2022 — 
The new list includes 10 individuals from the UM community

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7 WXN Women's Top 100 winners photos: Top row (L-R): Dr. Patricia Birk, Dr. Tracie Afifi, Dr. Melanie Morris, Dr. Janice Ristock. Second row: Melanie MacKinnon, Dr. Tina Chen, Dr. Joanne Embree.

Top stories of 2021

December 23, 2021 — 
Members of the UM community achieved incredible successes, and many students, faculty, staff and alumni came together to face challenges and find solutions

Fort Garry campus in winter, showing Tier Building. // Photo from Chris Reid

UM moving the start of Winter Term to remote

December 20, 2021 — 
Update from Michael Benarroch, President and Vice-Chancellor

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A sick baby in hospital, hooked up to many wires and tubes.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM neonatologist edits book on hypoxic respiratory failure in newborns

December 20, 2021 — 
Book spotlights the work of 80 authors, edited by a team of world experts led by UM's Dr. Shyamala Dakshinamurti.

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Dr. Christopher Adams, rector of St. Paul's College. Photo taken December 15, 2021 (University of Manitoba)

St. Paul’s College re-appoints Dr. Christopher Adams as rector

December 17, 2021 — 
Dr. Adams to continue to lead college for a new five-year term

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Michael Benarroch speaks at a lectern.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

One year since Manitoba’s first COVID-19 vaccine given on Bannatyne campus

December 17, 2021 — 
More than 2.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been given to Manitobans over the past year, and it all started on the University of Manitoba’s Bannatyne campus

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