COVID-19 News Archive
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
COVID-19 has created opportunity for change
May 12, 2020 —
Dr. Nazim Cicek, associate head of biosystems engineering at UM, says that some good could come out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Faculty of Arts
Faculty of Arts launches COVID-19 UM Student Emergency Fund
May 12, 2020 —
The Faculty of Arts COVID-19 UM Student Emergency Fund offers financial support to Arts undergraduate and graduate students directly impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Navigating the ‘new normal’ post COVID-19 lockdown
May 8, 2020 —
As the province starts to ease restrictions on public life, Manitobans who have been spending a lot of time at home physical distancing or isolating may be experiencing feelings of anxiety related to COVID-19 at the prospect of going out into the public
Desautels Faculty of Music
The Show Goes On
May 7, 2020 —
Desautels musicians spread music, not viruses, during the COVID-19 pandemic
Asper School of Business
Out-Innovate: Doing more with less
May 7, 2020 —
In Alexandre Lazarow’s (BComm(Hons)/06) new book Out-Innovate: How Global Entrepreneurs - from Delhi to Detroit - Are Rewriting the Rules of Silicon Valley he outlines where entrepreneurs outside the most-developed start-up ecosystems, are out-innovating their Silicon Valley counterparts.
Life in a post-COVID-19 world
May 6, 2020 —
Dr. Michael Benarroch was interviewed by Martin Cash of the Winnipeg Free Press about what he thinks life (and especially the economy) might look like in a post-COVID-19 world.
Updates for the week of April 29 to May 6
May 6, 2020 —
Summary of this week's UM COVID-19 information
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Medical student using 3D printing skills to make face masks
May 5, 2020 —
A second-year Max Rady College of Medicine student is using his 3D printing experience to help a group of physicians develop reusable silicone face masks to be used to protect health-care workers from COVID-19.
Economy after pandemic will be different, say experts
May 5, 2020 —
A UM finance prof and an economist have weighed in on how the economy and business sector will look like post-pandemic, and agree that it will definitely be different.
Why are some COVID-19 tests false positives?
May 5, 2020 —
In a story on CBC, medical microbiologist Dr. Philippe Legasse-Weins explains why some tests for COVID-19 turn out to be false positives, like the one case in Nunavut that turned out to be a mistake.