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Don’t Get Hooked This Season

October 25, 2024 — 
As the holiday season nears, it's important to stay wary against phishing email gift card scams. Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting unsuspecting gift-shoppers, exploiting the festive spirit to their advantage. Here's what you need to know to protect yourself and our UM cyber community.

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Santa Claus in a sleigh pulled by reindeer. In the background, trees bedecked with Christmas lights and skyscrapers.

Join UM in the Manitoba Hydro Santa Claus Parade

October 21, 2024 — 
We are thrilled to announce our participation in this year's Manitoba Hydro Santa Claus Parade on Saturday, November 16. We are seeking 40 enthusiastic staff and faculty members to help us spread Bison holiday cheer throughout the streets of Winnipeg.

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Get your information from a trusted source with the Winnipeg Free Press

October 17, 2024 — 
Media Literacy Week is Oct. 21-25. Never has it been more important to think critically about the information you’ve consumed online. That’s why it’s important to get news from a trusted source.

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Individual uses a virtual reality headset.

Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning

Improve your student conversations skills using virtual reality

October 17, 2024 — 
A new training series is combining new technology with verbal communication training to help faculty members and sessional instructors have better conversations with students.

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Three colleagues demonstrate the composting system in their office lunchroom.

Sustainability

Become a GO-Rep and join a community of sustainability-minded colleagues

October 15, 2024 — 
When Anna Nekola started at the university in January this year, she was surprised to find that sustainability was part of the culture at the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, where she works as an educational developer.

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Handwritten sign for Give and Go event.

Sustainability

Finding a home for useful, yet unwanted, things

October 8, 2024 — 
Every year, about 1.200 students move into residence at the Fort Garry Campus. Students may not have a lot of stuff when they arrive to their dorm room, but as they settle into their space, they begin to accumulate a lot of items for daily living.  

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The Conversation: We curated a podcast playlist for you: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

September 27, 2024 — 
Here at Don’t Call Me Resilient, we’ve curated a playlist of episodes for you that explore the historical and current issues of Indigenous communities.

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Yellow autumn leaves on trees in front of the Buller Greenhouse on the Fort Garry campus.

Sustainability

Sustainability intranet site launches

September 27, 2024 — 
October is Sustainability Month, and that means it’s time to renew our focus on actions we can all take to reduce our environmental footprint.

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Students

UM’s Student Wellness Centre (SWC) is open!

September 10, 2024 — 
The Student Wellness Centre operates on a drop-in basis and provides an opportunity for students with an interest in health and wellness to connect with each other.

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Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning

Make your course materials accessible with Panorama

September 5, 2024 — 
If you’ve been wondering how to be more inclusive when creating files and ensure your materials meet accessibility standards, Panorama is your new best friend. Panorama is an accessibility tool that has been available on UM Learn since 2022. Now it’s also being relaunched as a password-protected portal, which means you can also review documents for accessibility outside UM Learn. You just log in to Panorama using your UM password—which means that UM staff and students can now also use it for any materials they produce.  

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