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Removing barriers to online learning

May 5, 2020 — 
Make your gift to our COVID-19 UM Student Technology Fund

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Paving the way forward for organizational transformations

May 5, 2020 — 
'There’s a lot to celebrate when you consider that many organizations are responding'

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Like the first universities, we’ve moved our classes somewhere new

May 5, 2020 — 
The first universities had no central campus and held classes wherever space could be found

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CTV: Ticks are back, start checking yourself tonight

May 4, 2020 — 
Kateryn Rochon explains

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Security and privacy risks with patient portal accounts in US hospitals

May 4, 2020 — 
A research team working with Dr. Celine Latulipe in the UM Faculty of Science has found that many American hospitals may be inviting privacy violations by allowing password sharing between patients and their care providers.

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Why a little baby talk is good for your toddler

May 4, 2020 — 
Project brought together researchers from 16 countries around the world

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2014 Knight Lecture - Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair

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Who will be the next Knight Distinguished Visiting Lecturer?

May 1, 2020 — 
UM is now accepting proposals from across the university community for the next visiting lecturer as part of the Robert and Elizabeth Knight Distinguished Visitor Program.

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Hospital worker and COVID virus

Well-deserved praise for health care workers

May 1, 2020 — 
Dr. Royce Koop, head of political studies in the UM Faculty of Arts, urges us all to praise healthcare workers during the pandemic, as they are "prominent political actors."

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Photos of students and student life taken at the University of Manitoba on Tuesday, April 3, 2018.

Alumni News

UM launches free online lectures for alumni & friends

April 30, 2020 — 
The new virtual Learning for Life program will host weekly lectures from UM experts on a variety of topics

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Disease expert ‘cautiously optimistic’ about MB relaxing restrictions

April 30, 2020 — 
Infectious disease expert Dr. Jason Kindrachuk in the UM Rady Faculty of Health Sciences is “cautiously optimistic” about the province’s relaxing of restrictions as businesses and recreational areas open up.

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