UM Today Archives

June 28, 2024 —  The Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) version of Star Wars: A New Hope makes its debut August 8, 2024 at Centennial Concert Hall in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

June 27, 2024 —  Dr. Dorthe Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, along with four colleagues, won the prestigious BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category. Dr. Dahl-Jensen and her team were lauded for their work on using ice cores in Greenland to track the relationship of greenhouse gas concentrations to changes in climate over the past 800,000 years.    

June 27, 2024 —  Canadian lawyers play key role in money laundering, says financial intelligence report

June 27, 2024 —  The Neechiwaken Indigenous Peer Mentor Program helps first-year students in the Qualico Bridge to Success (QBTS) program transition to university life by promoting student engagement and a sense of belonging on campus. The term Neechiwaken means “friend” in Cree.

June 27, 2024 —  Department of City Planning Professor Rae St. Clair Bridgman was awarded two top honours from the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group for her latest book.

June 27, 2024 —  Estelle Simons [B.Sc./65, MD/69], professor emerita at the Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, has been named to the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest honours. 

June 27, 2024 —  Bukich says he took in the ideas of the medicine wheel, seeing the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual elements needed. He says experiences like the games are crucial for exposing kids to a much wider world of opportunities.

June 27, 2024 —  Upon identifying a gap in legal services for individuals held in custody in federal prisons, the University of Manitoba Community Law Centre (UMCLC) has taken steps to address this issue by launching the province’s first Prison Law Clinic.

June 27, 2024 —  Due to structural instability and poor underground conditions on Sifton Road, an emergency road closure is now in place to ensure safety of the UM community.

June 27, 2024 —  A new virtual lab developed by researchers at the University of Manitoba and the University of Nottingham aims to generate new solutions for gender equity in sport and physical activity.