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Royal School’s Luna the Polar Bear design is one of 25 finalists in a new NASA contest.

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The Free Press: Winnipeg elementary school shoots for moon with stuffie design

August 28, 2025 — 
Luna the Space Polar Bear could blast off with astronauts next year

A person standing in a warehouse in front of a large turbine engine

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Summer work highlights

August 21, 2025 — 
What happens when sharp, driven engineering students step out of the classroom and into industry? They deliver real results, make an immediate impact and drive meaningful progress.

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Mural of floral motif and black bear painted in hallway

Indigenous

When murals speak: Indigenous art on campus

August 14, 2025 — 
Indigenous artists offer connection, share stories and spark conversation through art

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Full moon Photo by: David Besh

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CBC Manitoba: NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon

August 12, 2025 — 
NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon

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A group in safety vests and hard hats looking at a dam

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The Narwhal: Prairie provinces are supposed to share water. What happens during a drought?

August 8, 2025 — 
Manitoba is the last in line for water sharing from Prairies rivers stemming from the Rockies. It’s also the province most dependent on that water for electricity generation

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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Top Crop Manager: Grain storage expert shares research on canola storage and aeration strategies

July 18, 2025 — 
Fuji Jian shared the results from four grain storage studies.

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A basketball court is over grown with weeds and being taken over with flood water (credit Harrison Haines)

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CBC Manitoba: Could flash floods happen in Manitoba?

July 8, 2025 — 
Could flash floods happen in Manitoba?

Research and International

New research aims to improve quality of Lake Winnipeg

July 4, 2025 — 
A new research project is set to provide solutions to improve Lake Winnipeg’s water quality. Led by UM’s Dr. David Lobb, Professor in the Department of Soil Science, this project will investigate a critical missing piece in the decades-long effort to reduce harmful nutrient pollution by fingerprinting the sources of airborne phosphorus that affect water quality of the lake.

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Ahmed Shalaby, a civil engineering professor at the University of Manitoba, says under current design standards, a highway intersection would have a median wide enough for a truck and a stop sign. (Travis Golby/CBC)

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CBC Manitoba: Site of deadly Manitoba bus crash was studied in 2006, but suggested improvement wasn’t completed

June 23, 2025 — 
Province to announce recommendation for upgrade this week, 2 years after crash that killed 17 near Carberry

students and staff filming a video in the digital literacies lab

Provost and Vice-President (Academic)

Strategic Support Fund initiatives drive progress on UM’s shared goals

June 20, 2025 — 
As UM moves forward with implementing MomentUM: Leading Change Together, Strategic Plan 2024-2029, innovative projects supported through the Strategic Initiatives Support Fund (SISF) are bringing the plan’s vision to life. With the 2024–2025 funding cycle concluding, several impactful initiatives have successfully wrapped up, while a new round of funding recipients have just been announced. Learn about three projects that illustrate the kind of transformative work that is taking place at UM..

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