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Provost and Vice-President (Academic) News

Honouring faculty excellence at UM

May 14, 2025 — 
On May 6, the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) hosted the Faculty Recognition Reception. The event honours recipients of teaching awards, community engagement awards, Merit Awards, and those granted Tenure.

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David Gerhard photo by Gavin Boutroy Radio Canada

Faculty of Science News

CTV Winnipeg: How AI is shaping your online world

May 14, 2025 — 
How AI is shaping your online world

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University students and kids on both sides of a table with microscopes while some kids are looking through the microscopes and some university students are explaining or showing the science experiments to kids.

Faculty of Science News

Radio-Canada Manitoba: Science Rendezvous de l’U. du Manitoba permet aux jeunes « d’exciter leur curiosité »

May 12, 2025 — 
Science Rendezvous de l’U. du Manitoba permet aux jeunes « d’exciter leur curiosité »

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A university students with long hair and a red shirt working with colorful plastic straws to build structures and cubes while explaining it to the kids that are gathered around the table.

Faculty of Science News

Back by popular demand: Science Rendezvous 2025

May 7, 2025 — 
Get ready for Manitoba’s largest hands-on science and engineering festival. Join us on Saturday, May 10, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. right here in Winnipeg, at the University of Manitoba, Fort Garry campus. 

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University of Manitoba PhD student Rana Ahmed winner of the 3K pitch competition.

Faculty of Science News

CBC Manitoba: U of M student awarded for new cholera treatment idea

April 24, 2025 — 
U of M student awarded for new cholera treatment idea

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Sustainability News

Sustainability award winners announced!

April 17, 2025 — 
An exceptional group of students, staff and faculty were recognized with 2025 UM Sustainability Awards.

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Research and International News

The Free Press: Saving lives with Manitoba-made vaccines

April 15, 2025 — 
Future vaccine development through research at UM

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Hamid Hadipour and Dr. Silvia Cardona side by side, each smiling at the camera sitting on a chair.

Faculty of Science News

GraphBAN: making drug discovery faster and more affordable through Artificial Intelligence (AI)

April 14, 2025 — 
UM researchers have developed a deep learning model to predict compound protein interactions. GraphBAN is an inductive graph-based approach. The model is all about discovering new drug candidates in the pre-clinical stage. This means speeding up the drug discovery process and making it more affordable.

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Romulus and Remus, two puppies with dire wolf genes. One scientist describes them as 'dire-ish.' (Colossal Biosciences)

Faculty of Science News

CBC News: A biotech company has, sort of, revived the long-extinct dire wolf

April 9, 2025 — 
Scientists say Colossal's pups are an impressive feat, but more 'dire-ish'

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A yellow Elections Canada sign with the word VOTE on it in bold letters placed in the grass along a sidewalk.

Faculty of Science News

CBC North by Northwest: Professor David Gerhard on the use of AI in the upcoming election

March 31, 2025 — 
Professor David Gerhard on the use of AI in the upcoming election

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