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Left to right: Cutting the ribbon on the new Stanley Pauley Engineering Building Dr. Marcia Friesen (U of M), Dr. Digvir Jayas (U of M), Terry Duguid (Parliamentary Secretary & MP for Winnipeg South), The Honourable Kelvin Goertzen (Minister of Education, Province of Manitoba), Sarah Guillemard (MLA for Fort Richmond), President & Vice-Chancellor Dr. David Barnard (U of M), Dr. Zahra Moussavi (U of M), Dr. Jonathan Beddoes (Dean, Faculty of Engineering)

The Stanley Pauley Engineering Building officially opens

May 31, 2019 — 
Thanks to a joint federal-provincial investment at the University of Manitoba, a new engineering facility officially opened its doors on May 31, 2019

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Robots battle to the death…of weeds

May 29, 2019 — 
The University of Manitoba’s Agricultural Robotics Team (UM-agBOT) captured third place at a recent international competition.

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Catherine Auld receives her masters of city planning degree in 1980 from her mother and then-U of M-Chancellor, Isabel Auld. // U of M Archives & Special Collections

Alumni News

What’s your fondest memory of your graduating year?

May 29, 2019 — 
Hear from our newest grads and share your own memories!

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Price Faculty of Engineering News

Memorial Design Competition winners announced

May 28, 2019 — 
Memorial to honour 14 women killed in the Montreal massacre

Shea Hunt (3rd from Left) at the Rehabilitation Centre for Children

Students News

Convocation 2019 – Meet Engineering’s Shea Hunt

May 28, 2019 — 
In celebration of the University of Manitoba’s 140th Spring Convocation, UM Today is celebrating some of the outstanding students who are graduating

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Price Faculty of Engineering News

ICTAM: Immigrant Women in Technology: Navneet Thind

May 28, 2019 — 
Navneet Thind graduated with a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in 2012 but it took her close to six years to find an industry job in Canada.

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Black hole // Image: NASA

Discovery research and training supported

May 21, 2019 — 
$13.7 million in new funding announced

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This illustration depicts a three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated image of a number of drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae diplococcal bacteria. Note that extending from the organisms’ exterior were type IV pili, or hair-like appendages, which in this case, are used to promote motility for these bacteria, and improve surface adherence. The artistic recreation was based upon scanning electron microscopic (SEM) imagery.

Research pushing the boundaries

May 13, 2019 — 
Early career researchers are among the inaugural recipients of funding from the New Frontiers in Research Fund

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Reading a book. Trees in the background. // Image from Pixabay

Alumni News

10 inspiring books to read this summer

May 7, 2019 — 
We asked our alumni and UM community to tell us about the most inspiring books they’ve ever read and they answered with an eclectic list

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Cattle ranchers can now use satellite technology to monitor forage growth

From farms, to treating municipal wastewater

May 3, 2019 — 
Two U of M studies receive federal funding

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