UM Today Archives

March 4, 2022 —  The Do the Duo Challenge is over and we have our grand prize winners. Thank you to all who enrolled in multi-factor authentication (MFA) over the last month.

March 4, 2022 —  The Barkman Concrete design competition is open to any student enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba. This year, the task was to design, lay out, and detail a segmental retaining wall product.

March 4, 2022 —  Martin Entz weighs in

March 4, 2022 —  The internship program is an exciting opportunity for Indigenous students to access unique career-related experiences in their field of study.

March 4, 2022 —  Investors’ beliefs are central to asset pricing, since different beliefs about firms’ fundamentals affect both stock prices and dynamics. However, not all investors are the same — individual investors may have limited information or knowledge compared with institutional ones, and therefore, their opinions cannot represent all investors. The information conveyed by financial analysts, too, is sometimes subject to bias.

March 4, 2022 —  With final exams a little over a month away, the last topic being covered in the Faculty of Law’s Distinguished Visitors Lecture Series could not be more relevant. Speaking on “The Surveillant University: Remote Proctoring, AI and Human Rights,” Dr. Teresa Scassa, Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law - Common Law Section, joins us at a virtual Robson Hall March 8 at 12:00 p.m. via Zoom. This talk is open to all members of the University of Manitoba community interested in human rights and exam surveillance.

March 3, 2022 —  Saba Mirhosseini, a M.Arch student, has won recognition in the RAIC International Prize Scholarship competition.

March 3, 2022 —  Juno award nods for members of the UM community

March 3, 2022 —  Since the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences passed Canada’s first post-secondary institutional anti-racism policy in August 2020, receiving local and national attention, the focus has shifted to educating key stakeholders about the policy and implementing it across the Rady Faculty’s five colleges

March 3, 2022 —  Dr. Jim House authored a comprehensive research plan that will help Manitoba become a global leader in sustainable protein production.