UM Today Archives

April 26, 2021 —  On April 16 and 17, 20201, The Stu Clark New Venture Championships: Undergraduate Edition brought together students from various faculties and post-secondary schools across Manitoba to compete for over $20,000 in cash prizes.

April 26, 2021 —  Community Engaged Learning (CEL) is launching a free downloadable framework guide for working in a good ways with Indigenous communities on Thursday, May 27, 12 pm.

April 26, 2021 —  William Pope [M.D./70, LL.B/97]  wanted to do something special for his wife Dr. Elizabeth Tippett Pope’s 75th birthday so he established a lectureship at the Dr. Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry in her name that will carry on her ideals for years to come.

April 26, 2021 —  Warden has overall responsibility for the academic, administrative, and spiritual life of the College

April 26, 2021 —  The competition, hosted annually for the past 16 years by the Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Asper School of Business, focuses on which team can create the most convincing business plan, with several key deliverables along the way.

April 23, 2021 —  Looking through her University of Manitoba Community Law Centre files early last summer, student supervisor and third-year law student Larissa Campbell noticed that a troubling number of Legal Aid clients with limited incomes were being assessed crushingly high mandatory minimum fines under The Tax Administration Miscellaneous Taxes Act for offences under The Tobacco Tax Act.

April 23, 2021 —  Dr. Annemieke Farenhorst appointed Associate Vice-President (Research)

April 22, 2021 —  In order to help contribute to a culture of safety on campus—UM’s Student Support is recruiting paid facilitators for a sexual violence prevention program called Bringing in the Bystander™.

April 22, 2021 —  For the second year in a row, the 2021 Ma Thèse en 180 Secondes (MT180) competition at the University of Manitoba was held virtually, with the challengers rising to the occasion of virtually presenting their thesis research.

April 22, 2021 —  Nolan De Leon, a graduate student who is an aspiring physician won first place and the Archie McNicol Prize at the University of Manitoba Three Minute Thesis finals on April 21, 2021