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Connect Your Commute: GoManitoba

August 30, 2018 — 
The cost of traveling alone by car may be too much for some, and perhaps choosing to walk, bike, or bus is too confusing. If this sounds familiar, GoManitoba is the app for you.

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Mikayla Lanoie.

Recreation Services offers something for everyone

August 28, 2018 — 
Membership and program options at the Fort Garry and Bannatyne campuses

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Adult holds newborn baby's hand. // Image from iStock.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

New Study: Effects of Instagram on breastfeeding perceptions

August 28, 2018 — 
Research shows how social media can influence and support new moms.

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Goods for Sale accepting bids until Sept. 28

August 28, 2018 — 
Financial Services is holding another University of Manitoba Goods for Sale

(L-R) Gail Asper, David Asper and Leonard Asper.

35 years of doing ‘something useful’; for U of M, for the world

August 27, 2018 — 
At the U of M, the Asper family has collectively contributed over $17.5 million which continues to directly impact students, staff and faculty in nine faculties and all three colleges

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Attention curlers, the U of M league wants you

August 27, 2018 — 
The University of Manitoba Curling Club, a mixed recreational league, has some openings for regular weekly curlers as well as spares

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The Hon. Roland Penner, C.M., Q.C. [B.A./49, LL.B./61] was a professor at the Faculty of Law from 1972 to 2009, serving as Dean from 1989 - 1994. After retiring, he remained a Senior Scholar at Robson Hall until his passing on Thursday, May 31, 2018.

Faculty of Law

A Life Well Lived: Family, friends, colleagues bid farewell to Roland Penner

August 24, 2018 — 
Of all the things he was in life, be it soldier, lawyer, activist, politician, or professor, Roland Penner, C.M., O.M., Q.C. [B.A./49, LL.B./61] was a Dad who loved his family very much, and a friend and humanist who cared very deeply about the rights and well-being of other people. This message was clear as family, friends and dignitaries each shared stories illustrating Penner's legacy with a gathering of over 200 community members at his Celebration of Life held Thursday, August 23, 2018 at the Neil Bardal Funeral Centre.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits Oskayak High School in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in April 2016. // PMO Photo by Adam Scotti

Students

Prime Minister’s Youth Council now accepting applications – Deadline Nov. 30, 2018

August 24, 2018 — 
The call for applications to join the Prime Minister’s Youth Council is currently underway!

Jasmine onboard the R/V William Kennedy

Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources

Trading trenches for transects: An archaeologist’s experience at sea

August 23, 2018 — 
'As somebody who normally spends their time digging in the ground, it’s not very often that I find myself surrounded by water for two and a half weeks'

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Dr. Philip Gregory Hultin photo from the Department of Chemistry.

Remembering professor Philip Gregory Hultin

August 22, 2018 — 
The University of Manitoba mourns the loss of Dr.Philip G. Hultin, Professor and former chair of the Department of Chemistry, who died in Winnipeg on Aug. 15

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