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A young woman sits on a large red ball, holding a tissue box and a paper towel roll.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Physical therapy student promotes movement with household items

December 6, 2023 — 
Second-year UM physical therapy student Amanda Shiplack believes that exercise should be seen as fun, rather than a chore. That’s the approach she used when creating a one-day event for people with cognitive and physical challenges at a local geriatric day hospital earlier this year.

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A nursing student wears a virtual reality headset and holds virtual reality hand controllers.

Exploring virtual reality in teaching and learning

December 5, 2023 — 
One of the newer opportunities in simulation education is virtual reality, which provides opportunities to teach things like prioritization, problem solving, and clinical decision-making skills.

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A nursing student posing at a simulation lab bedside.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Students, educators share ‘common nursing experience’

December 5, 2023 — 
When Bryn Sitarik first began studying at UM in 2016, she was interested in a business degree, with a focus on human resources. But after an experience working at CancerCare Manitoba in Summer 2018, she shifted her focus to nursing.

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A collage of the portraits of each of the prize winners.

Six grad students receive Rady Faculty Dean’s Prize

December 5, 2023 — 
The 2023 Dean of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences Graduate Student Achievement Prize was awarded to six distinguished learners.

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Five students stand in a line with Dr. Kelekis-Cholakis on a stage. A photographer is taking their photo. The students are holding certificates.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Dentistry, dental hygiene Awards Evening celebrates successes

December 1, 2023 — 
The Dr. Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry and the School of Dental Hygiene celebrated the achievements of its hard-working students, faculty and staff at its Awards Evening last week.

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Joel Nichols

Meet our newest Rhodes Scholar, Joel Nichols

November 28, 2023 — 
This exceptional School of Art grad is UM’s 100th recipient of the prestigious scholarship

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Project launched to meet Manitoba’s Accessible Information and Communication Standard

November 27, 2023 — 
We have a shared responsibility to help fulfil compliance requirements

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Joel Nichols artwork

School of Art

Celebrating UM’s 100th Rhodes Scholar

November 23, 2023 — 
Each year, several exceptional Canadian scholars are awarded the opportunity to study at the University of Oxford with fully funded post-graduate scholarships

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A rhinoceros standing next to large, white letters spelling the word rhinoceros.

Faculty of Arts

Rhinoceros opens November 29

November 22, 2023 — 
The next production of the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media’s Theatre Program runs November 29 to December 2. Catch the student production of Rhinoceros from playwright Eugène Ionesco at the John J. Conklin Theatre on the University of Manitoba campus.

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Saeid Maghsoudi looks into a microscope. He is wearing a lab coat and is holding instruments in a petri dish.

Rady grad student profile: Saeid Maghsoudi working on new drug to save newborns

November 21, 2023 — 
Saeid Maghsoudi’s research aims to develop a drug to treat babies that are short of oxygen at birth.

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