social media News Archive
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Faculty of Science
CBC Manitoba: Do you remember when you got a Facebook account and who your first Facebook-friend was? The social media site is now 20 years old, if you can believe it
February 6, 2024 —
Do you remember when you got a Facebook account and who your first Facebook-friend was? The social media site is now 20 years old, if you can believe it
![Fang Wan.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Fang-Wan-150x150.jpg)
CBC Manitoba: An expert weighs in on how social media is being “weaponized” during world conflicts
October 12, 2023 —
An expert weighs in on how social media is being "weaponized" during world conflicts
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Students
A new kid on the block: umstudent TikTok
May 16, 2022 —
Have you seen any familiar faces or buildings on your For You page lately? In case you haven’t, we’ve officially launched a UM student-focused TikTok account. Follow the account and watch upcoming contests!
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Indigenous
Celebrating Indigenous brilliance for National Indigenous Peoples Month
June 17, 2020 —
Check out the artists, businesses, podcasts, books and films the Indigenous community at UM is supporting!
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Environmental Health and Safety Office
Meet your Safety Superheroes: Vanessa Pinto, Biological Safety Specialist
August 1, 2019 —
Spillin' the Safe-Tea: Meet Vanessa Pinto, the Biological Safety Specialist at the University of Manitoba
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Has Marvel reinvented the film serial?
April 24, 2019 —
The release of Avengers: Endgame is a culmination, of a kind, for the Marvel Cinematic Universe
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Trending: For June 2018
June 15, 2018 —
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![Nervous and excited as the grads line up backstage for Convocation 2018.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-08-at-2.14.52-PM-150x150.png)
#UManitoba2018: Spring Convocation in Photos
June 11, 2018 —
A curated gallery of convocation-related posts shared on social media
![A photo taken by @maddieaurora_ at the Verna J. Kirkness Science and Engineering Education Program celebration dinner.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-06-01-at-9.41.06-AM-150x150.png)
#UMIndigenous in Photos: The Verna J. Kirkness Science and Engineering Education Program
June 1, 2018 —
46 First Nations, Métis and Inuit students shared their experience on campus for this annual science program
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Trending: For the weeks of May 28 – June 3
May 28, 2018 —
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