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Remembering visionary Ron Joyce, C.M.

February 4, 2019 — 
Family foundation helping youth attend U of M

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Indigenous

A critical lens on legal reconciliation

February 1, 2019 — 
Meet Indigenous scholar Dr. Jeremy Patzer [MA/08]

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Curtis and Nicolas Leclair, Access Program students

Extended Education

Métis brothers discover their path at the U of M

January 31, 2019 — 
“I had a passion for biology. I discovered microbiology and working in the lab is a joy. I want to help people through research.” - Nicolas Leclerc

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New insight into kaleidoscope of research

January 30, 2019 — 
$1.5 million in research grants, scholarships and fellowships awarded

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Look to the medicine wheel for mental health, Elders advise in First Nations study

January 30, 2019 — 
The traditional medicine wheel, symbolizing balance and interconnection, can serve as a framework for improving the mental well-being of First Nations people in Manitoba. That’s the key recommendation from a mental-health study.

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Performance Artist Shawna Dempsey

Faculty of Arts

Working with Wonder

January 29, 2019 — 
Winnipeg-based performance artists, Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan, hippety-hop through grand questions of time, space, science and aesthetics, asking “what is more important than wonder?”. The University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities helps to bring the explorative performance to Winnipeg audiences.

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Retirement from U of M won’t stop dentist’s crusade for patient safety

January 25, 2019 — 
Newly retired professor Dr. Nita Mazurat is a national expert on infection control in dentistry. Her quest for compliance isn’t taking a vacation.

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Mentoring outreach at the U of M

January 22, 2019 — 
It’s about developing community.

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Activist Joan Jack was the first guest speaker in law professor Dr. Bryan Schwartz's new course Oral History, Indigenous Peoples and the Law, which is open to the public.

Law professor opens classroom to everyone

January 21, 2019 — 
Activist, Educator and Lawyer, Joan Jack [BEd/82 UM, LLB/91 UBC], was the first guest lecture of the term to Dr. Bryan Schwartz’s inaugural class on Oral History, Indigenous Peoples and the Law

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George Rubenfeld (centre) with his family in France, 1950. // Photo credit: Belle Jarniewski, Voices of Winnipeg Holocaust Survivors

Alumni

Life after the Holocaust: Alumni who survived

January 17, 2019 — 
Jan. 27 marked the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Second World War – a day set aside by the United Nations to commemorate the Holocaust

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