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The Conversation: More people are considering AI lovers, and we shouldn’t judge : Network News

July 21, 2025 —  People are falling in love with their chatbots. There are now dozens of apps that offer intimate companionship with an AI-powered bot, and they have millions of users.

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Dr. Zulma Rueda smiling at the camera in her lab.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences News

#ZeroHIVStigmaDay: UM researchers highlight urgent need to address HIV stigma and care gaps : Network News

July 21, 2025 —  This #ZeroHIVStigmaDay, University of Manitoba researchers are working to reduce stigma and improve HIV care through science, collaboration with community, and the lived experience of those affected.

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An artist's impression of two black holes merging, which can be detected on Earth through the gravitational waves the collision creates. (Victor de Schwanberg/SPL)

Faculty of Science News

CBC Manitoba: Manitoba researchers part of team working to unravel mystery of largest black hole merger ever detected : UM in the News

July 20, 2025 —  Discovery helps us understand 'where we come from,' says U of M Canada Research Chair in Extreme Astrophysics

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Melina Jobbins, in the foreground, and summer student Mitchell Baker sift through rock at an Interlake quarry, looking for fossils. (Karen Pauls/CBC)

Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources News

CBC Manitoba: Move over, Jurassic Park. Manitoba was home to newly discovered 390-million-year-old extinct fish : UM in the News

July 20, 2025 —  Manitoba paleontologist identifies, renames new classification of ancient fish

pea size hail stones in a pile in someone's hand

Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources News

CBC Manitoba: Hail-focused research projects ‘long past due’ in Canada, U.S., prof says : UM in the News

July 20, 2025 —  Projects aim to minimize damage by better predicting hailstorms, hailstone sizes

The countryside around Teknaf, Bangladesh. A cloudy sky above rice fields where a few cows graze. The landscape is green with mountains in the distance.

Faculty of Law News

Voices from the Naf River : Network News

July 18, 2025 —  Dr. Kjell Anderson shares a glimpse of the research he has been doing this summer on the Rohingya Genocide based largely on the accounts of Rohingya survivors.

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BROOK JONES/FREE PRESS Poor food intake and subsequent malnutrition can lead to a host of problems for people living in long-term care, University of Manitoba professor Christina Lengyel says.

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences News

Free Press: From unpalatable to appalling : UM in the News

July 18, 2025 —  The state of long-term care home food is tough to stomach for many residents and their loved ones

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Two people stand behind a podium on a small stage. One speaks into a microphone. On a screen behind them text reads: "Welcome to the Department of Clinical Health Psychology Residency Program 55th Anniversary Celebration. Max Rady College of Medicine. Rady Faculty of Health Sciences." Dozens of people sit at round tables in the crowd.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences News

Clinical health psychology residency program ‘truly outstanding’ at 55 years : Network News

July 18, 2025 —  When the University of Manitoba’s clinical health psychology residency program launched during the 1969-70 academic year, there were just two residents and one training site.

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Dr Fuji Jian

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences News

Top Crop Manager: Grain storage expert shares research on canola storage and aeration strategies : Network News

July 18, 2025 —  Fuji Jian shared the results from four grain storage studies.

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lawyer Marie Henein stands at a podium speaking into a mic with the Faculty of Law banner and moot courtroom art behind her. She is speaking and gesturing with her hands. Photo by Adam Dolman.

Faculty of Law News

From one legendary Canadian advocate to another : Network News

July 18, 2025 —  During one of the Faculty of Law’s busiest winter terms on record, one of the most exciting, and prestigious events held in Robson Hall’s largest lecture theatre, the Harry Walsh O.C., Q.C. Moot Courtroom, was the Harry Walsh Lecture, held March 3, 2025, featuring renowned Canadian lawyer Marie Henein.

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