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Sea turtle swimming over the Great Barrier Reef, with sunlight gleaming through the ocean water from above.

Faculty of Arts

Determining if non-sentient beings, like the Great Barrier Reef or the Mona Lisa, have rights

February 6, 2023 — 
Dimitar Tomovski is an MA student and 2022 recipient of a Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics graduate fellowship. The fellowship has allowed him to pursue his research on the rights of non-sentient beings with more financial freedom. The fellowships are open to UM faculty, instructors and graduate students from all fields and all faculties.

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Robson Hall exterior Fall 2019

Faculty of Law

UM makes Indigenous Law course mandatory for all law students, and offers new concentrations this fall

December 9, 2022 — 
A course in Indigenous law will be mandatory for all law students starting next year, and students will also have the opportunity to focus their studies in one of three new concentrations including Private Enterprise and the Law, Law and Society, and Criminal Law and Justice, in addition to the existing concentration in Access to Justice in French. Graduate law students will also see changes to the Master of Laws program including now having the opportunity to take clinical experience electives.

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The UM STARlab team in the clean room at Magellan Aerospace with the UM satellite

Actually, it is rocket science

November 18, 2022 — 
Ferguson is an associate professor in mechanical engineering, the NSERC / Magellan Aerospace Industrial Research Chair in Satellite Engineering at UM, and the director of STARLab, a suite of projects based in the Price Faculty of Engineering and where he is telling me about his work.

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Photo of a human hand touching a robot hand.

Extended Education

Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning Solutions

November 16, 2022 — 
"This program provides a basic understanding of what’s possible and how you can apply it. AI is such an effective and useful area for business.” - Briana Brownell

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Faculty of Graduate Studies

Finding joy in molecules

October 25, 2022 — 
Weslley Silva's PhD research is leading to new insights into the nature of our universe.

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Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women: Teassa MacMartin

October 19, 2022 — 
UM researcher named among Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women

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Six UM leaders among most powerful women in Canada

October 19, 2022 — 
Six women in the UM community have been named among Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women in 2022.

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Students

Contract Cheating: All risk no reward

October 17, 2022 — 
International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating

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Portrait of Natascha Fitch.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Immunology degree equips grad for scientific sales role  

October 10, 2022 — 
Alumna Natascha Fitch shares her journey from master's degree to scientific sales.

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Graduate nursing students partake in Reconcili-action workshop

October 3, 2022 — 
On Sept. 6 and 7, graduate nursing students participated in Reconcili-action Begins with Education: Turtle Island Project Experiential Exercise for Graduate Nursing Students. The workshop took students through the history between Indigenous Peoples and settlers, beginning before European settlers came to Turtle Island to present-day reconciliation efforts.

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