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UM community invited to celebrate Louis Riel Day

February 11, 2020 — 
In advance of the Louis Riel Day provincial holiday, the sixth annual Louis Riel Day celebration at the University of Manitoba will be held on Friday, Feb. 14 at Migizii Agamik – Bald Eagle Lodge

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Canada Excellence Research Chair, Dr. Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (right), led the team that discovered the plant fossiles inside the Cold War-era ice samples

Discover: Skip the Gloom and Doom and Get Cracking on Solving Climate Change

February 10, 2020 — 
Discover magazine interviewed professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen

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Looking down on fruits and vegetables at a grocery store. // Image from Pixabay

Wpg Free Press: Online Winnipeg atlas charts food deserts, ‘city-wide’ insecurity

February 6, 2020 — 
Food insecurity in Winnipeg, and health problems associated with it, have spread far beyond the city's poorest neighbourhoods, the map shows

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Postmedia: Indigenous achievers to be honoured at the Indspire Awards in Ottawa

February 5, 2020 — 
As an advocate for Indigenous women, law student and Manitoba Métis Federation member, Alana Robert has worked to fight gender-based violence

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New Academic Jobs – February 5, 2020

February 5, 2020 — 
New Academic Jobs - February 5, 2020

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Flag lowered for Hunter Skaritko

February 5, 2020 — 
The flag will be lowered on Feb. 7

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Cities negatively altering mammal evolution

February 5, 2020 — 
UM research finds that cities may be lowering mammals’ ability to evolve in response to changing environments

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Mourning the loss of Dr. Francis Plummer, OC OM FRSC, (MD/76)

February 4, 2020 — 
The University of Manitoba community is in mourning with the sad news that Dr. Francis Plummer, OC OM FRSC, (MD/76), a world renowned scientist, academic and HIV/AIDS researcher, has passed away at the age of 67.

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Dr. Meghan Azad

Improving global health through breast milk

February 4, 2020 — 
A $6.5 million grant has been awarded to a University of Manitoba researcher by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to establish a new global health initiative dedicated to breast milk: the International Milk Composition (IMiC) Consortium.

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Canadian Press: Canada’s Scott still relishes role as a midfielder destroyer

February 3, 2020 — 
10 years on the national team for Scott

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