UM Today Archives

May 28, 2018 —  As the Globe and Mail reports, past and present U of M faculty and researchers Gary Kobinger and Xiangguo Qiu have been recognized with Governor General’s Innovation Awards

May 28, 2018 —  Karl Kohut (Assistant Professor, Jazz Bass) and Dr. Rebecca Simpson-Litke (Assistant Professor, Music Theory) join the Desautels Faculty of Music.

May 28, 2018 —  Current hashtags, links and other social media bits & pieces

May 28, 2018 —  Christine Stochl wants to change how we experience brands

May 25, 2018 —  A group of 12 students from grades nine through 11 at Victor Sammurtok School had a unique opportunity with the arrival of a pair of Winnipeg scientists in Chesterfield Inlet earlier this month.

May 25, 2018 —  The College of Dentistry will receive the largest gift in its history on May 29.

May 25, 2018 —  The flag will be lowered on May 25, 2018 for Jennifer Shay

May 24, 2018 —  Survey results were presented by H2O program student Lakeisha Barkman on May 18 at the University of Manitoba’s fifth annual First Nation water and sanitation security conference

May 24, 2018 —  The 2018 Year End Exhibition was once again a success

May 24, 2018 —  Every galaxy is thought to harbor a supermassive black hole in the center, or nucleus, of the galaxy, and in active galaxies this black hole is fed by infalling matter. This “central engine” is typically surrounded by dusty molecular gas in a doughnut configuration, which hides the black hole and the infalling material from our view along certain viewing directions. The picture of a central engine plus obscuring doughnut is thought to apply to all accreting supermassive black holes, explaining the apparent variety of active galaxies from the very brightest quasars to the lower-luminosity radio galaxies under a single “unified scheme.”