UM Today Archives

December 23, 2024 —  At least four members of the Robson Hall community including a current law student and three alumni were included in Ace Burpee's list of Top 100 Most Fascinating Manitobans of 2024, released December 21.

December 23, 2024 —  On Friday, December 6, 2024, members of the Manitoba Indigenous Law Students’ Association assembled for their monthly meeting with Indigenous faculty members but this time they were joined by a very special guest: Chief Wilton Littlechild, CC; KC; IPC; FP; BA, MA, LLB(Alta); LLD(Alta)(Leth)(Man). The renowned Treaty 6 lawyer, politician, athlete, Cree chief, and advocate for Indigenous rights had come to speak at the law school’s Indigenous Legal Methodologies and Perspectives class and also spend some quality time with MILSA members.

December 23, 2024 —  With a research paper in the works for publication in the latest issue of The Manitoba Law Journal, Dr. Illia Roskoshnyi, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law, took a chance on entering the University of Manitoba’s second annual Three Minute Postdoctoral (3MP) Competition this past September.

December 22, 2024 —  The University of Manitoba community is deeply saddened by the passing of John Buhler, a visionary Winnipeg businessman, and generous philanthropist whose legacy will resonate for generations.

December 20, 2024 —  Is global uncertainty stifling diversity and innovation? Asper School of Business and Richard Morantz and Sheree Walder Morantz Professorship in Business Ethics, Jae Yun Kim, discusses his research and how business leaders can correct this 'similarity bias' in the Harvard Business Review.

December 20, 2024 —  Here's what's open and closed on UM campuses Dec. 20 to Jan. 2.

December 20, 2024 —  What if scholars could capture how a country collectively feels and thinks about a subject, even in an age of information overload? Wenxi Pu (Associate Dean, Assistant Professor, The Associates Fellow in Innovation) has spent about eight years working to do just that in a piece now published in the FT50-ranked Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

December 20, 2024 —  With the knowledge that there is a lot of winter ahead of us, find an activity that will help you embrace the cold!

December 20, 2024 —  The University of Manitoba continued its support of entrepreneurial thinking with a second Better Together learning event November 12 and 13, hosted by The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning. Fittingly held during Global Entrepreneurship Week, the event brought together nearly 50 participants from 11 different faculties together in a non-competitive design sprint to solve real challenges facing the university.

December 19, 2024 —  Managing subsurface water in era of climate change