UM Today Archives

October 23, 2025 —  Mayor Earl Funk added that Brandon University is ready to partner with the Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba to create a “rural stream” for medical training, provided the province invests in the program. 

October 23, 2025 —  Late on an October Monday night, George Springer smashed a three-run homer to send nearly 45,000 fans in Toronto’s Rogers Centre — and a record national television audience — into a frenzy.

October 23, 2025 —  The University of Manitoba will be lowering the flag on the Administration Building on October 27, in memory of Dr. Jerry Gray.

October 23, 2025 —  The College of Nursing welcomed 97 new nurses to the profession at a pinning ceremony on Oct. 22, the day after the bachelor of nursing students graduated at convocation. Twenty-eight students from the college’s graduate programs also crossed the convocation stage to receive their degrees, including 20 graduates from the nurse practitioner program.

October 23, 2025 —  Wally Dion: a thousand tiny prayers opens at the School of Art Gallery

October 22, 2025 —  Joyce Adhiambo has lived with HIV for the past 24 years, and she depends on antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to keep her alive.

October 22, 2025 —  From scholarship recipient to peer mentor, Zyrinne shares her journey through the Schroeder Transition Program and how she’s now giving back by supporting new students at UM.

October 22, 2025 —  Dr. Niigaan Sinclair, Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba, spoke about the slow return of a birch bark scroll from the Vatican amid news that Indigenous artifacts held in the Vatican Museums are finally heading back to Canada.

October 21, 2025 —  The Faculty of Law congratulates Master of Laws (LLM) students graduating at Fall Convocation, 2025. Before they finished their program, we had an opportunity to get to know a little about some of the members of the LLM Class of 2025. 

October 21, 2025 —  “Bacterial leaf streak has been detected in Canada since the 1920s but we are seeing the re-emergence of it. And it’s worsening rapidly,” said Dr. Shaheen Bibi, a plant pathologist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manitoba in Dr. Dilantha Fernando’s lab