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What Does Scrolling Do to Us?

May 8, 2025 — 
Why we should take a vacation from our smartphones this summer

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A Bison at the Centre of Transforming Communities

May 5, 2025 — 
Grand Chief Jerry Daniels talks healing, campus life and redeveloping the Hudson Bay building

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A Bison at the Centre of Canadian Football

March 27, 2025 — 
CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie explains how UM shaped him, on and off the field

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What Creates the Colours in Northern Lights?

March 14, 2025 — 
We asked UM instructor Danielle Pahud, in the Department of Physics and Astronomy

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A Bison at the Centre of Financial Journalism

February 14, 2025 — 
Amanda Lang tells us why there’s nothing boring about business reporting

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A Bison at the Centre of Social Innovation

December 18, 2024 — 
How UM alum Diane Roussin, project director of The Winnipeg Boldness Project, is co-creating solutions with residents in the city’s Point Douglas neighbourhood

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Why Do We Like Sad Movies?

December 18, 2024 — 
We asked Brenda Austin-Smith in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media to explain our love of tearjerkers

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A Bison at the Centre of Finance

November 21, 2024 — 
UM alum Charlie Spiring set himself apart and grew a $10-billion investment firm

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A Bison at the Centre of Human Rights Education

November 7, 2024 — 
UM alum Isha Khan shares her journey to CEO of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

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Why Are Pollinators Key to Year-Round Food Security?

October 22, 2024 — 
Indigenous scholar Kyle Bobiwash explains how a dip in pollinator populations from climate change affects farmers’ crops worldwide

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