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COVID-19 News Archive

Research and International

On the wing

March 1, 2021 — 
How birds changed their migrations during lockdowns

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Research and International

Hip to heparin

March 1, 2021 — 
A University of Manitoba research team is emerging as a global leader in COVID-19 anticoagulation trials thanks to their innovative, global trial studying different types of heparin, an anticoagulant (blood thinning) and anti-inflammatory drug

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Research and International

COVID-19 anxiety in the age of the anthropocene

March 1, 2021 — 
Graduate student Sarah Paradis work will show how traditional learning environments, such as schools and classrooms have become impacted by the pandemic

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T2200S form for employees working from home in 2020

February 26, 2021 — 
To claim remote work expenses, employees have the option of using the Temporary Flat Rate Method or the Detailed Method

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Stay safe on campus

February 24, 2021 — 
UM takes a proactive approach to staff and student safety and security on our campuses, through a variety of programs and security measures.

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Students

Winter 2021 UM Tech Support Program open for applications

February 16, 2021 — 
Students who are in need of a personal computer may be eligible for a $500 subsidy towards the purchase of a laptop from the UM Bookstore

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Looking out over clouds and the wing of an airplane in flight. // Image from Pixabay

Non-essential travel discouraged, 14-day quarantine in place

February 10, 2021 — 
Travel checklist: Insurance and HR implications for post-travel quarantine

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BellMTS Mobile Offer

Students

Discounted Mobile Internet Plans for UM Students Continue for Winter Term

February 1, 2021 — 
The University of Manitoba and BellMTS are pleased to be able to provide UM students with more affordable access to technology. 

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A dental student wearing personal protective equipment performs a dental procedure on a patient while a plastic funnel attached to plastic tubing vacuums aerosols away from the patient's chin area.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Saliva samples from UM dental personnel to aid COVID-19 research

January 27, 2021 — 
Students, faculty and support staff in dentistry and dental hygiene at UM will soon be asked to contribute their saliva to a research study of COVID-19 at Canada’s 10 dental schools.

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Gizmodo: Scientists now worried the UK coronavirus variant is deadlier

January 22, 2021 — 
'This is of course quite concerning, given the speed at which this variant has overtaken circulating strains across different regions and our inability to control general transmission in many parts of the world'

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