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COVID-19 News Archive

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Asper School of Business

Q & A with an MBA: Dean Beleyowski [BComm. (Hons.)/92, MBA/03]

July 20, 2020 — 
For this month’s Q & A with an MBA feature we share the story of one of our Asper alumni and highlight the generosity and community support of the local organization he works for.

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Faculty of Education

Education prepared for 2nd pandemic wave

July 20, 2020 — 
As University of Manitoba bachelor of education students look forward to fall term, they can rest easy that the Faculty of Education is ready in the event of a second wave.

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Scientists cautiously reopen labs on Bannatyne campus

July 16, 2020 — 
The lights are back on in some of the labs and world-class experiments have resumed.

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Experts must track mutating COVID-19 to develop effective vaccine: UM study

July 14, 2020 — 
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences researchers determined that scientists must track the genetic diversity of COVID-19 in order to develop an effective vaccine. They also determined that testing for the virus may produce false negative results if experts don't track how it's changing around the world. 

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Tier Building-Spring 2020

CBC: A crash course in COVID: New University of Manitoba class will explore impact of pandemic

July 8, 2020 — 
Anthropology course devoted to COVID-19 borne out of students' interest when crisis hit

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A drawing of planet Earth in space, with spikes emanating from the planet so that it resembles the coronavirus.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

COVID-19 could outwit science unless knowledge stays current: UM study

July 7, 2020 — 
A study of whole genome sequencing samples from COVID-19 patients worldwide shows that rapid changes in the virus may cause false-negative test results.

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

COVID-19 summer work disruption sends students back to class

July 6, 2020 — 
School’s out for the summer; but not for all. Some learners in the Rady Faculty’s Interdisciplinary Health Program opted to enroll in summer courses this year due to scarce summer jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Tier Building

UM to offer course on COVID-19 this fall

July 6, 2020 — 
A course on COVID-19 will be offered this fall as an anthropology elective.

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A protestor holds a sign that reads End Systemic Racism

Research and International

How to build a better Canada after COVID-19: The power of everyday actions can bring about change

July 6, 2020 — 
We live in a world where “normal” means systemic injustice that has become only more intense and apparent during COVID–19.

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM team develop inexpensive 3D-printed ventilator following shortage

June 24, 2020 — 
Doctors around the world could turn to a made-in-Manitoba design if hospitals experience a ventilator shortage during the second wave of COVID-19.

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