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Celebrating Indigenous Excellence: Honouring the Indigenous Campus Community 2025

June 12, 2025 — 
Ten members of the Indigenous campus community at UM are being recognized this National Indigenous Peoples Day for leading transformational change and weaving Indigenous knowledges into all they do.

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CBC News: A website claims wildfire destroyed a single mom’s clothing warehouse. But the store doesn’t exist

June 11, 2025 — 
Fake website claiming 'last chance to own' items from non-existent Flin Flon business 'disgusting': mayor

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CBC Manitoba: How to spot the Strawberry Moon

June 10, 2025 — 
How to spot the Strawberry Moon

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Faculty of Science

CBC Cross Country Checkup: Is AI creating a generation of cheaters or achievers?

June 9, 2025 — 
AI use and abuse is on the rise. 

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How UM students aim to stop cholera outbreaks without any antibiotics 

June 5, 2025 — 
At the 2025 Science 3K Pitch Competition, Rana Ahmed presented the ground-breaking idea. She introduced combating cholera outbreaks in underrepresented nations by engineering probiotics. Being a waterborne disease, cholera can easily be transmitted. This is common, especially in places that suffer from crises, war and disasters. The current solution is through antibiotics. It is expensive, requires a doctor’s prescription and affects the immune system negatively. 

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The Free Press: Province kills city’s sulfur gas ground squirrel extermination plans

June 2, 2025 — 
Province kills city’s sulfur gas ground squirrel extermination plans

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Students

The highest standing

May 29, 2025 — 
Six students have been awarded Governor General’s Academic Medals for outstanding achievement at their level of study.

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Dr. Can-Ming Hu, Professor; Jiguang Yao, PhD Student; Jerry Lu, PhD Student; all from the Department of Physics and Astronomy

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From the power of magnetism to controlling the speed of light

May 29, 2025 — 
You might think controlling the speed of light directionally is a far-fetched idea. But what seems science fiction is very much the reality of 2 PhD students’ work. Jiguang Yao and Jerry Lu are PhD students at the UM Department of Physics and Astronomy. 

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CBC Manitoba: Understanding AI: What It Is and Why It Matters

May 29, 2025 — 
Understanding AI: What It Is and Why It Matters

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Caring for future generations through collaborations between Indigenous communities and researchers

May 23, 2025 — 
PrairieDNA is one of the 12 new projects co-funded by Genome Canada and regional Genome Centres to build Canada’s eDNA surveillance capacity across regions.

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