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Basketball takes over parking lot E on the Bannatyne campus during the summer.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

CTV Winnipeg: How wildfire smoke is impacting youth sports in Winnipeg

July 31, 2025 — 
How wildfire smoke is impacting youth sports in Winnipeg

Two instructors guide students in a dentistry lab as they examine dental models.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Kids discover health-care careers at UM summer camp

July 24, 2025 — 
The University of Manitoba’s Rady Faculty of Health Sciences welcomed students back to its Biomedical Youth Program (BYP) Summer Camp — a week-long immersive experience where youth explore careers in the health sciences through hands-on learning. After a pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the camp returned this year with new programming. 

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Dr. Mojgan Rastegar, wearing a lab coat and plastic gloves, holds a dish of cells.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Bio-banking Hope

July 24, 2025 — 
More than a decade ago, Dr. Mojgan Rastegar gave the keynote address at an Ontario meeting focused on Rett syndrome, an incurable neurodevelopmental disorder.

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Group of campers in lab coats during a medical workshop.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

CBC Manitoba: Summer camp gives Winnipeg kids, youth hands-on science experience

July 24, 2025 — 
Summer camp gives Winnipeg kids, youth hands-on science experience

Dr. Zulma Rueda smiling at the camera in her lab.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

CTV Winnipeg: Manitoba researchers working to put end to HIV stigma

July 22, 2025 — 
Manitoba researchers working to put end to HIV stigma

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UM researcher, Courtney Marshall in a lab wearing a white lab coat and holding a lab apparatus while smiling at the camera.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Asthma research earns UM scientist a nomination to attend Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

July 22, 2025 — 
Courtney Marshall, a PhD candidate in the department of immunology at the Max Rady College of Medicine, won three awards at the International Congress of Academic Medicine, including a nomination to attend the Lindau Meeting.

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Dr. John Wade in the Brodie Centre atrium.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM community mourns loss of Dr. John Wade, medicine dean emeritus

July 21, 2025 — 
Dr. Peter Nickerson, dean, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and dean, Max Rady College of Medicine, and the entire UM medical community are saddened to learn of the passing of a dear colleague, John Wade [MD/60], on July 17, 2025 at age 91.

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Dr. Zulma Rueda smiling at the camera in her lab.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

#ZeroHIVStigmaDay: UM researchers highlight urgent need to address HIV stigma and care gaps

July 21, 2025 — 
This #ZeroHIVStigmaDay, University of Manitoba researchers are working to reduce stigma and improve HIV care through science, collaboration with community, and the lived experience of those affected.

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Two people stand behind a podium on a small stage. One speaks into a microphone. On a screen behind them text reads: "Welcome to the Department of Clinical Health Psychology Residency Program 55th Anniversary Celebration. Max Rady College of Medicine. Rady Faculty of Health Sciences." Dozens of people sit at round tables in the crowd.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Clinical health psychology residency program ‘truly outstanding’ at 55 years

July 18, 2025 — 
When the University of Manitoba’s clinical health psychology residency program launched during the 1969-70 academic year, there were just two residents and one training site.

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Illustration of mpox virus.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

CBC Manitoba: University of Manitoba researcher concerned about Mpox mutation

July 16, 2025 — 
University of Manitoba researcher concerned about Mpox mutation

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