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Traffic calming pilot on Maclean Crescent starts Aug. 26
August 19, 2024 —
The Maclean Pilot Project will take a ‘tactical urbanism’ approach to traffic calming, where temporary materials are used (concrete barriers, planters, picnic tables, signage, etc.) to test traffic flow changes on Maclean Crescent to reduce traffic volumes along Dafoe Road and within the campus core.
Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management
Bisons head coach helping lead the Canadian women’s wheelchair basketball team in Paris
August 19, 2024 —
Canada's senior women's wheelchair basketball national team will open their Paris 2024 Paralympic competition on August 29 in a game against China. Alongside them will be Bisons women's basketball head coach Michele Sung.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Western Producer: Lab work – photo essay
August 19, 2024 —
The main hallways at the University of Manitoba are mostly empty and the campus quiet during the summer, but it’s as busy and buzzing as ever inside the soil science department’s laboratories.
Flag lowered for Bruce Pirnie
August 16, 2024 —
The University of Manitoba will be lowering the flag on the Administration Building on Aug. 20, 2024 in memory of Bruce Pirnie.
Faculty of Science
Get to know the mathematics department!
August 16, 2024 —
Adam Clay, professor and associate head graduate at the mathematics department, tells us whatever degree you choose at the university will focus your training and skill sets in a way that opens doors and closes some for your future. "A degree in mathematics", he says, "closes the fewest doors and opens the most."
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Manitoba Co-operator: What will solve Manitoba’s agriculture labour shortage?
August 15, 2024 —
The sector needs employees in areas of digital agriculture, mechatronics and clean energy technologies, as well as veterinary professionals.
Embracing opportunities around campus
August 15, 2024 —
The psychology student studying in the Faculty of Arts joined St John’s college as part of the college student membership, where she hoped to find people to connect with, scholarship opportunities, and a place to study on campus.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Manitoba Co-operator: Putting a dollar to rangeland benefits
August 14, 2024 —
The four-year project, which started in 2023, covers all Prairie provinces.
Asper School of Business
An invitation to connect
August 14, 2024 —
Kristi Perrin [BComm(Hons)/20] didn’t have to think too hard about RSVPing to the Indigenous Business Education Partners (IBEP) 30th Anniversary celebration this September. A reunion of sorts—though many of Perrin’s former IBEP classmates are still her closest friends—the IBEP 30th is an opportunity for Perrin to make new connections, celebrate an incredible legacy and return to a space of community, warmth and welcome.
Faculty of Arts
PHOTOS: Anishinaabemowin-dubbed Star Wars (Anangong Miigaading): A New Hope debuts in Winnipeg
August 14, 2024 —
Voice cast, producers and fans celebrate at world premiere, which took place August 8, 2024 at Centennial Concert Hall in Winnipeg