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UM proudly represented among Canada’s top 100 most powerful women in 2024

October 30, 2024 — 
Five UM community members have been named among Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women in 2024, recognized for their leadership, vision, determination, passion and mentorship of others. 

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UM lab at the forefront of antibiotic drug development using artificial Intelligence (AI)

October 29, 2024 — 
Faced with the university shut down in 2020 due to Covid-19, chemistry professor Rebecca Davis and PhD candidate Hunter Sturm, from UM’s Davis Research Group, had to re-examine their work processes and goals to continue moving forward with their research program.

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The Conversation: Commercial whaling and climate change are inhibiting evolutionary change in Arctic whales

October 28, 2024 — 
Bowhead whales are the longest-lived mammals on Earth with some able to live hundreds of years. What’s more, Inuit hunters have observed these whales breaking ice over half a metre thick – ice strong enough to support a fully-loaded semi truck.

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Winners of the 2024 Undergraduate Research Showcase stand and kneel together smiling.

Research and International News

Student achievement on display at the UM Undergraduate Research Showcase

October 28, 2024 — 
2024 Undergraduate Research Showcase hosts more than 140 undergrad research posters and presentations.

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Research and International News

UM receives funding from The Gates Foundation for transformative family planning research in Africa and Pakistan

October 15, 2024 — 
The Gates Foundation has awarded UM researchers USD$12.5 million to expand the work of the globally recognized Institute for Global Public Health (IGPH) to identify barriers and improve access to life-saving family planning and maternal and newborn health goods and services in priority regions.

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Research and International News

UM Launches Strategic Research Plan 2024-29: A New Era of Discovery and Impact

October 10, 2024 — 
On October 8, UM faculty, staff, students and external stakeholders gathered at a well-attended event at the Innovation Hub to celebrate an historic milestone - the official launch of our ambitious five-year strategy for maximum research impact.

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Dr Mario Pinto

Research and International News

Winnipeg Free Press: U of M strategic research plan: ‘bold’ goals, Indigenous focus

October 9, 2024 — 
U of M strategic research plan: ‘bold’ goals, Indigenous focus

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The Conversation: Indigenous students and faculty are on the rise — and universities have a moral obligation to support them

October 1, 2024 — 
As we close out September, universities across Canada are well into their new year of learning. An exciting change is underway.

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2024 JELF recipient headshots

Research and International News

UM researchers receive more than $1.5 million infrastructure investment from the John R. Evans Leaders Fund

September 26, 2024 — 
Eight new UM research project have received critical infrastructure funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund.

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Research and International News

New study reveals breastfeeding duration influences infant microbiome and respiratory development

September 19, 2024 — 
A major study co-led by UM, NYU. and involving researchers from universities across North America. has been published in Cell.

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