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Faculty of Law

Faculty of Law celebrates exceptional alumni with new award series

January 27, 2023 — 
To celebrate the achievements of graduates, the Faculty of Law created the Faculty of Law Alumni Awards to be presented annually. Nominees demonstrate standards of inspiring professionalism in one of three categories including Outstanding Alumni Award, Emerging Leader Award, and the Trailblazer Award.

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Students

Academic Learning Centre Tutors

January 27, 2023 — 
Now that we’re in the fourth week of Winter term, do you have questions about how and when to study? Are you struggling to understand some course concepts?

Stormy skies above the city of Reykjavik, Iceland.

Faculty of Arts

Travel study inspires educational and personal growth

January 27, 2023 — 
UM offers varied programs for students to combine travel with their studies during their degree.

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Head, Archives & Special Collections Heather Bidzinski alongside pieces from the archives.

Libraries

The Manitoban: A journey into U of M’s ‘untapped treasure’

January 27, 2023 — 
In a room on the third floor of Dafoe library, right beside the Icelandic reading room, a small group of archivists work to preserve history.

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Student walking on campus path surrounded by fall foliage.

Town Hall on strategic plan asks community to think big and inspire us to greatness

January 27, 2023 — 
'The strength of the plan is really dependent on the diversity of voices that come and share ideas'

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Traditional snowshoes sit in the foreground of a blue sky on a winter day.

Sustainability

Gather your team for the Jack Frost Challenge

January 27, 2023 — 
Join friends and fellow Manitobans for this year’s Jack Frost Challenge — a province-wide event organized by the Green Action Centre that takes place from Feb. 5 to 11 and encourages participants to complete 130 collective kms of winter activities.

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Profile of Margaret Hart.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Ininiw scholar bringing Indigenous curriculum to occupational therapy

January 27, 2023 — 
Since joining the College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences in the role of Ininiw scholar, Margaret Hart has been working toward a complete rebuild of the occupational therapy program to incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing.

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Yom HaShoah honours the Jews who perished in the Holocaust during the Second World War.

Let’s reaffirm our ideals in the fight against racism and hatred in all their forms

January 27, 2023 — 
A message from President Michael Benarroch on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Man standing in front of a railing

Asper School of Business

Lei Lu reappointed as Bryce Douglas Chair in Corporate Finance

January 26, 2023 — 
Dr. Lei Lu has been reappointed as the Bryce Douglas Chair in Corporate Finance.

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Fernanda Gouvea Pereira, senior technician, Dr. Mario Tenuta, NSERC/WGRF/Fertilizer Canada Industrial Research Chair in 4R Nutrient Stewardship And Professor of Applied Soil Ecology, Department of Soil Science and Shrinal Patel, technician stand in front of the UM Horticultural Storage Facility.

Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Governments of Canada and Manitoba invest nearly $100,000 to upgrade horticulture storage facility

January 26, 2023 — 
The investment will allow researchers to conduct post-harvest potato storage research that will be representative of on-farm storage at potato producer operations.

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