New sustainability in action facility opens
The department of biosystems engineering from the Price faculty of engineering and the faculty of agricultural and food sciences have announced the establishment of a…
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Pilot study to help dementia patients
A team at the U of M’s Rady faculty of health sciences is developing a new way for people with dementia and their caregivers to…
Interior design studio using 3D visualization tech
Due to constraints introduced by COVID-19, remote learning has provided both students and professors with exciting and novel challenges. It allowed some innovation in the…
Forum condemns surveillance software for assessment
Schools went remote last March with little preparation or warning, and both students and professors alike were thrown into the disarray of online classes. As…
Interactive education on video game platforms
An odd personal effect of my current COVID-19-related circumstances is a budding interest in history that I had never expected to gain. During lockdown, I…
U of M researchers launch Indigenous COVID-19 app
Researchers at the University of Manitoba, in close collaboration with Indigenous partners, have developed a mobile application to assist Indigenous communities with the current pandemic….
U of M hosts talk with inventor of handheld cellphone
On Jan. 29, the University of Manitoba’s faculty of science hosted a talk with Martin Cooper, an inventor and entrepreneur who led the team at…
Data literacy initiatives in universities are imperative in the fight against misinformation
When hundreds of Donald Trump’s most extreme supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol, the world saw just how deeply some believed the 2020 presidential election had…
A eulogy to Adobe Flash Player, the software that raised a generation
Between the years when the oceans drank New Orleans and the rise of the Y2K scare, there was an age when shining webpages lay spread…
Robots the ally, not adversary, of labourers
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a buzzword that has infiltrated almost everyone’s vernacular. Writers, media houses and technology sector billionaires like Elon Musk warn of a…