UM Today Archives

October 24, 2025 —  Sixteen teams of Robson Hall students competed in the twentieth annual Robson Hall Negotiation Competition on the evening of October 14th, 2025. These upper-year students were selected for having excelled in the Legal Negotiation course they took in their second year of law school.

October 24, 2025 —  A bold idea, backed by UM donors, is taking on one of the most entrenched and pernicious problems in our society: hate speech and antisemitism. The newly launched Winograd Initiative for the Study of Contemporary Hate Speech & Antisemitism will greatly enhance the work being done on UM campuses to promote peace and justice. Funded by alumni, Chuck and Libby Winograd, this initiative will integrate rigorous research, academic engagement, and community collaboration, to address hate speech and antisemitism.

October 24, 2025 —  Many published studies have shown that exposure to cigarette smoke in the womb increases a person’s risk of asthma and other inflammatory lung diseases. “What no one knows is how that actually happens,” says Aguilar.

October 24, 2025 —  UM Libraries Digitization Centre is officially open and accepting digitization requests from UM students, staff, faculty and the public. The Digitization Centre digitizes materials such as books, textual materials, photographs, slides, negatives, large formats like maps or architectural drawings, and now film.  

October 23, 2025 —  Brandon Trask, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Manitoba provides perspective on the changes.

October 23, 2025 —  Mayor Earl Funk added that Brandon University is ready to partner with the Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba to create a “rural stream” for medical training, provided the province invests in the program. 

October 23, 2025 —  Late on an October Monday night, George Springer smashed a three-run homer to send nearly 45,000 fans in Toronto’s Rogers Centre — and a record national television audience — into a frenzy.

October 23, 2025 —  The University of Manitoba will be lowering the flag on the Administration Building on October 27, in memory of Dr. Jerry Gray.

October 23, 2025 —  The College of Nursing welcomed 97 new nurses to the profession at a pinning ceremony on Oct. 22, the day after the bachelor of nursing students graduated at convocation. Twenty-eight students from the college’s graduate programs also crossed the convocation stage to receive their degrees, including 20 graduates from the nurse practitioner program.

October 23, 2025 —  Wally Dion: a thousand tiny prayers opens at the School of Art Gallery