UM Today Archives

December 13, 2021 —  Learn about techniques that work for one Healthy U volunteer

December 13, 2021 —  The University of Manitoba is pleased to announce the following acting dean appointments and extensions: 

December 13, 2021 —  How will we live together? – This was the question posed by the 17th International Architecture Biennale, which ran from May 22 to November 21, 2021, in Venice and virtual venues. While the pandemic and related crises keep pushing people apart, this forum fostered ways of imagining a more livable world together.

December 13, 2021 —  Graduate students, get ready to submit your applications

December 13, 2021 —  Change can take a while to happen, but when the impact is finally felt, the results are rewarding. The amount of change between what third-year law student Katie Rothwell and first-year Melinda Moch have seen at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law in terms of Indigenization of the law school curriculum, is significant. This year alone, changes law students like Rothwell and Moch have witnessed include the creation of a Truth and Reconciliation Action Team, the hiring of an Indigenous Student Support Coordinator, and an increase of Indigenous content in mandatory first-year law courses.

December 13, 2021 —  One of the most important accomplishments of the Law Faculty Council for the fall term of 2021 was to vote unanimously to approve the Faculty’s new Indigenous Course Requirement. The course has been named “Indigenous Methodologies and Perspectives" and will be offered in the second year of the Juris Doctorprogram. The course meets the requirements of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Call to Action 28.

December 13, 2021 —  Students at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences have embraced the spirit of giving this holiday season with several volunteer and fundraising activities

December 13, 2021 —  Peer Helpers are students too - they hold weekly office hours and are available to meet virtually with any UM student.

December 10, 2021 —  Adjustments have been made to the previously released academic schedule to allow for a full Winter Term Break (Reading Week) during the initially scheduled time of Feb. 22 to 25, 2022

December 10, 2021 —  A total of $231 million in grants and contracts was delivered to UM to support research in every discipline