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Portrait of Dr. Terry Klassen.

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UM researchers to develop COVID-19 resources related to kids coming to Emergency

August 15, 2022 — 
A University of Manitoba project aimed at providing emergency department health-care professionals with the latest information about conditions related to COVID-19 and children has received more than $433,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research

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Rady PhD candidate working to enrich ERs

August 12, 2022 — 
After working as an emergency nurse around the world for nearly 15 years, it became clear to Sarah Filiatreault is now researching how to best enhance emergency department care.

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Portrait of Dr. Kathleen Decker. A whiteboard with blue writing all over it is in the background.

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UM study focuses on impact of COVID-19 pandemic on cancer care in Manitoba

August 11, 2022 — 
A University of Manitoba study focused on understanding the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on cancer care in Manitoba has received more than $439,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

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Woman sits a desk, looking at her computer screen.

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Neuroscientist thrives in faculty role as researcher, teacher, mentor

August 10, 2022 — 
Alumna helps shape the minds of future researchers and pharmacists while advancing the field of neuroscience

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PhD student chosen to network with Nobel laureates

August 9, 2022 — 
UM's Diane Tshikudi will join award-winning scientists from around the world in Germany next June to attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

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UMSU University Centre in the fall. The leaves on the trees in front of the building have turned a yellow-orange and some have already fallen.

Students News

2022/2023 Tuition and Fees now available in Aurora

August 9, 2022 — 
Tuition and Fees for the Fall 2022/Winter 2023 Terms are now available in your Aurora account! It is important to understand your fees, when they are due, and how to pay them.

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Cover of Summer 2022 issue of RadyUM magazine, showing Dr. Brian Postl giving a checkup to a baby.

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Longtime dean of health sciences featured in new issue of RadyUM

August 5, 2022 — 
Dr. Brian Postl, the long-serving dean of health sciences and medicine at UM, shares his retirement reflections in the latest issue of RadyUM magazine, now posted online.

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Transmission electron microscopic image of an isolate from the first U.S. case of COVID-19, formerly known as 2019-nCoV. The spherical viral particles, colorized blue, contain cross-sections through the viral genome, seen as black dots.

New research collaboration aims to better understand COVID variants

August 4, 2022 — 
COVID-19 variants will continue to affect the global population until more solutions are found to limit transmission, and two University of Manitoba researchers are working on strategic projects that will help do just that

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A pulse oximeter is places on the finger of a Black person

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UM researchers find racial disparities in patient care associated with inaccurate medical device

August 3, 2022 — 
Dr. Barret Rush and Dr. Jennifer Ziegler have co-authored a study that has found critically ill Black, Asian and Hispanic patients receive less supplemental oxygen than white patients – a discrepancy associated with a flaw in the fingertip device used to measure oxygen in the blood

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Dr. Peter Nickerson.

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Dr. Peter Nickerson appointed dean of health sciences and medicine

July 28, 2022 — 
Dr. Peter Nickerson, a prominent physician and researcher in the field of organ transplantation, has been appointed dean of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and dean of the Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba

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