UM Today Archives

February 4, 2020 —  Consultations sessions announced for the President’s Task Force on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

February 4, 2020 —  News and events from the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

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.

February 4, 2020 —  They used their original powered footplate design and took it a step further by creating a feasibility study that looks into the economic, social, environmental, technical and commercial aspects.

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.

February 4, 2020 —  Navigating safely through a cluttered environment requires avoiding static and moving obstacles and, more specifically, other pedestrians. This topic will be explored in detail at the Friday, Feb. 7 edition of the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management Research Seminar Series.

February 3, 2020 —  Bringing an exciting, new take on Administrative Law (cue the groans from second-year law students), there’s a new prof in the Hall this term, fresh from travelling the world with the ink still drying on his Doctor of Philosophy in Laws degree from Osgoode Hall.

February 3, 2020 —  At an emotional ceremony on Jan. 31, a commemorative beaded quilt made to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls was unveiled at the entrance of the Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library at Bannatyne campus

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

February 3, 2020 —  Are assessments of an athlete’s mental toughness influenced by how that athlete performs in a single moment in a game? A new Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management study suggests it does.