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Global Winnipeg: University of Manitoba professor’s Chat GPT experiment

August 22, 2023 — 
A University of Manitoba professor attempted an experiment with the AI app Chat GPT

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CBC Manitoba: Bikes, shopping carts and oil drums were among the trash pulled out of Winnipeg’s Seine River

August 22, 2023 — 
Save Our Seine team collected enough garbage to fill over 100 bags

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Barry Prentice

Winnipeg Free Press: Barry Prentice on taking another view of a northern link

August 16, 2023 — 
Supply chain expert in the Asper School of Business and the director of the University of Manitoba Transport Institute, Barry E. Prentice, wrote an op-ed about why it's important to consider the Hudson Bay corridor and gateways more broadly

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UM researcher Thilini Dissanayake holds up a canola-based product that could replace plastic.

BNN Bloomberg: Creating a canola-based plastic alternative

August 16, 2023 — 
Creating a canola-based plastic alternative

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CTV Winnipeg: Manitoba virologist discusses EG.5, new COVID-19 strain

August 16, 2023 — 
The emerging COVID-19 variant, known as EG.5, has been detected in Manitoba and may eventually become the dominant strain.

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Dr. Jae Yun Kim

CBC Info AM: Jae Kim, chair, Richard Morantz and Sheree Walder Professorship in business ethics talks about his research around rethinking passion for work

August 14, 2023 — 
Jae Kim, chair, Richard Morantz and Sheree Walder Professorship in business ethics at the Asper School of Business spoke to Marcy Markusa about his research around people rethinking how they see their passion for their job.  

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Winnipeg Free Press: Liquor corp. agrees to arbitration to end strike

August 14, 2023 — 
Crown-owned MLL backs down on very day it seeks replacement workers

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Dr. Jan Stewart

CBC Manitoba: Jan Stewart, dean, Faculty of Education weighs in on new chief superintendent and CEO for the Winnipeg School Division (WSD)

August 12, 2023 — 
Jan Stewart, dean, Faculty of Education weighs in on new chief superintendent and CEO for the Winnipeg School Division (WSD)

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Jason Gibbs curates the the J.B. Wallis/R.E Roughly Museum of Entomology

CTV News: Seeing more wasps? Jason Gibbs, associate professor of Entomology explains why and what to do about them

August 10, 2023 — 
Jason Gibbs, associate professor in Entomology talked to ctvnews.ca about why we're seeing so many wasps and how to avoid them.

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CBC Manitoba: New research suggests there’s something hidden deep inside the genes of some people that naturally slows how HIV spreads in the body

August 9, 2023 — 
New research suggests there's something hidden deep inside the genes of some people that naturally slows how HIV spreads in the body.

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