UM Today Archives

October 22, 2025 —  Joyce Adhiambo has lived with HIV for the past 24 years, and she depends on antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to keep her alive.

October 22, 2025 —  From scholarship recipient to peer mentor, Zyrinne shares her journey through the Schroeder Transition Program and how she’s now giving back by supporting new students at UM.

October 22, 2025 —  Dr. Niigaan Sinclair, Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba, spoke about the slow return of a birch bark scroll from the Vatican amid news that Indigenous artifacts held in the Vatican Museums are finally heading back to Canada.

October 21, 2025 —  The Faculty of Law congratulates Master of Laws (LLM) students graduating at Fall Convocation, 2025. Before they finished their program, we had an opportunity to get to know a little about some of the members of the LLM Class of 2025. 

October 21, 2025 —  “Bacterial leaf streak has been detected in Canada since the 1920s but we are seeing the re-emergence of it. And it’s worsening rapidly,” said Dr. Shaheen Bibi, a plant pathologist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manitoba in Dr. Dilantha Fernando’s lab

October 21, 2025 —  The new program, announced in Manitoba, links Prairie farmers, students and researchers with tools and training to promote sustainable agriculture.

October 21, 2025 —  Manitoba researchers are looking into the effects of tick and fly disease in cattle

October 21, 2025 —  Eden Middleton, recipient of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) 2025 Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s (CGS-M) award, shares more about their research and vision for the future. Can you tell me a little bit about yourself? My name is Eden Middleton (they/she) and I am a Settler Canadian from Treaty 7, Moh’kins’tsis. I come from a farming family, grew up camping in the Rockies, and studied English and Drama at the University of Calgary.  This sparked a love for critical theory and the arts-based research that I’m translating into my Master in Social Work program here at the University of Manitoba. I’m also a practicing theatre artist, working as a playwright, dramaturg, producer and theatre-maker.

October 21, 2025 —  More than 150 students shared their research findings with the wider UM community at the Undergraduate Research Showcase.

October 21, 2025 —  Renowned cellists take to the stage of the Desautels Concert Hall