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U of M to host first ever LGBTTQI* homecoming event
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The University of Manitoba’s LGBTTQI* alumni (UMqueer) community will host its first-ever event Friday, dubbed “Queers, Cheers and Homecoming Years.”
The event will coincide with the U of M’s homecoming celebrations and will be hosted...
Visionary Conversations looks at reconciliation
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The new season of the University of Manitoba’s Visionary Conversations series launches Wednesday with its sights set on reconciliation.
Titled “Reconciliation: What Needs to Happen Next,” four panelists will examine the first year since the...
Recent findings that Harvard research was funded by sugar industry isn’t...
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Newly revealed documents show that the sugar industry funded research in the 1960s that cast blame for coronary heart disease on fat, with results more favorable towards sugar.
These findings, which were published by JAMA...
900-year-old Mayan book proven genuine
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According to current research, the Grolier Codex, a Mayan book written approximately 900 years ago and widely considered to be fake until recently, has been proven genuine. This makes the codex the oldest surviving...
Rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria the cause of U.N. meeting
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In an unusual line of action, the United Nations General Assembly will gather later this month in New York to discuss the recent mass prevalence of drug-resistant bacteria. This phenomenon is also known as...
Lumosity continuing operations after thousands of refund requests
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has begun handing out rebates after its recent legal battle with Lumosity, the “brain training” game that claimed it could “train core cognitive abilities.”
The last time the Manitoban covered...
No second chances
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The University of Manitoba has introduced a policy to tackle students repeating faculty-required courses with the aim of achieving a higher grade.
Under the new policy, approved by the senate at its June 22 meeting,...
