UM Today Archives

April 25, 2022 —  The Clinical Learning and Simulation Facility (CLSF), a key component of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences’  Clinical Learning and Simulation Program, helps to make the transition from classroom to hospital more comfortable for students.

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April 25, 2022 —  Live in the St John’s Residence and be part of our college community!

April 25, 2022 —  Application deadline August 15, 2022

April 25, 2022 —  Humans, robots, and the new sexual frontier

April 25, 2022 —  UM students may now borrow a laptop from the self-service lending locker at the Elizabeth Dafoe Library.

April 22, 2022 —  Beyond tackling an advanced transaction in corporate law that not even lawyers five-years out encounter, law students competing in the Davies Corporate/Securities Moot need to come prepared to argue both sides of the problem. As a testament to the dynamic brilliance and professionalism of this year’s team from Robson Hall, Brandon Gray (2L), who tied for second-place Top Oralist, immediately expressed appreciation for his teammates and coaches for their contributions and assistance during the competition.

April 22, 2022 —  Thanks to a generous gift from alum L. Kerry Vickar [LL.B./1980], The Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba (UM Law) will finally have a physical space to house its business clinics. Room 113 will now be known as the L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic. Vickar’s gift of $500,000 will help to transform a large former storage room in Robson Hall’s lower level into a modern, practicing clinic complete with board rooms, offices, incubator spaces, private virtual consultation booths and workspace for law students to learn the practice of law in a hands-on environment. Meanwhile, the law school’s expanded clinical learning opportunities will also benefit from the re-invented learning space.

April 22, 2022 —  Message from Laurie Schnarr, Vice-Provost (Students) on exam-related topics and supports, Graduation Pow Wow, Convocation and student opportunities

April 22, 2022 —  Asper assistant professor Dr. Hee Mok Park and co-author, Dr. Joseph Pancras from the University of Connecticut examine the impact on subsequent gambling behaviour in their paper entitled ‘Social and Spatiotemporal Impacts of Casino Jackpot Events’, published in the Marketing Science, a leading journal in the field of marketing research.