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Download UM Safe, our new mobile safety app

September 8, 2020 — 
This essential tool provides instant access to campus safety resources, and also features UM COVID information and updates

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2019 Merit Awards announced

September 8, 2020 — 
Faculty recognized for outstanding teaching, research, scholarly work and creative activities, and service

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Distinguished Professor Aniruddha Gole [MSc/80, PhD/82], recipient of the Dr. John M. Bowman Memorial Winnipeg Rh Institute Foundation Award

Research and International News

Rh Awards Recognize UM Research Excellence

September 8, 2020 — 
Tune in on Sept. 22, 7 pm on the UM YouTube channel to view the Rh Awards Celebration, and hear a bit about each recipient’s research from them, personally.

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Royal Society of Canada

Three UM professors elected to Royal Society

September 8, 2020 — 
Three University of Manitoba professors have been elected to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the country’s most esteemed association of scholars and scientists.

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UM campus in the fall.

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Welcome to the University of Manitoba!

September 8, 2020 — 
Welcome Day message from President Michael Benarroch

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COVID-19 pandemic

UM researchers get $9.4M for COVID-19 rapid response grants and clinical trials

September 4, 2020 — 
Research Manitoba has announced $3.8M in research funding to support recipients of the Manitoba COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant Competition and eight Manitoba clinical trials related to COVID-19 and applied health research.

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Heavy snow blankets the Fort Garry campus causing tree branches to bend and break.

Extreme precipitation events have always occurred, but are they changing?

September 4, 2020 — 
The evidence that human activity has warmed the global climate over the past century is incontrovertible. Individual extreme events are, however, influenced by many other factors.

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Two students wearing masks walk together down a hallway on campus.

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New committee steers UM’s COVID-19 recovery efforts into the future

September 2, 2020 — 
The new COVID-19 Recovery Steering Committee will recommend the UM’s overall response to COVID-19 recovery

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences News

Disruption of all Forms of Racism policy approved

September 1, 2020 — 
On Tuesday, August 25, 2020, the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences’ Faculty Executive Council (FEC) approved the RFHS Disruption of all Forms of Racism policy, the first anti-racism policy to be passed by any faculty or post-secondary institution in Canada.

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A black and white photo of the Shubenacadie Residential School classroom in Nova Scotia.

Recognition of historic significance of the Residential School System and former Residential Schools crucial step on path to Reconciliation

September 1, 2020 — 
The NCTR, Parks Canada and the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change announced that the Residential School System is now formally designated as an “event of national historic significance.” 

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