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Friday student rally on campus precedes UMFA, admin agreement
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Roughly 200 students joined the picket line and marched into the U of M administrative building as a show of support for the striking University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) Friday.
The action – organized...
Space conference hosted in Winnipeg
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For one weekend, Canada’s space industry came together in Winnipeg.
The Winnipeg chapter of the Canadian Space Society (CSS) hosted the 15th annual Canadian Space Summit from Nov. 14-15.
The non-profit two-day event in Winnipeg welcomed...
CRISPR method of gene editing used on a human cancer patient...
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CRISPR, a relatively new method of editing genomes, has been used for the first time on a human patient in China.
Let’s break down this pretty amazing statement. CRISPR technology is primarily built to fight...
University and faculty reach tentative agreement
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Confirmation by UMFA members is not expected until late Monday evening.
Employee at Winnipeg lab possibly exposed to Ebola virus
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An employee at Winnipeg’s National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease has potentially been exposed to the Ebola virus.
The employee who was working with six Ebola-infected pigs in a Level 4 lab on Nov. 7...
Meet the U of M’s first eco-marathon team
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The University of Manitoba officially has their first eco-marathon team.
UMecoMotion, which began as a U of M student group in September of this year, is a design team of 40 engineering students, all of...
