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Human Resources

Popular Vacation Purchase Plan (VPP) available for 2021/2022

February 2, 2021 — 
The 2021/2022 vacation purchase plan provides eligible employees with an opportunity to purchase one to 10 days of vacation in addition to their current vacation allotment.

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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Do you know your Canada’s Food Guide?

February 1, 2021 — 
By taking a questionnaire about Canada’s Food Guide, you can help guide health promotion.

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Join UM copyright office on Teams for a live info session

February 1, 2021 — 
Faculty and Instructors, take the guess work out of copyright from the comfort of your own screen

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Acting Dean of Law, David Asper, Q.C., welcomes law students to the first class of the revamped L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic now operating entirely online.

Faculty of Law

Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic goes virtual

February 1, 2021 — 
At the start of winter term, the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law launched a virtual version of its L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic. This new incarnation of the Faculty’s experiential learning course for third-year law students is now operating entirely online as well as collaborating on initiatives with the Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Asper School of Business and other organizations.

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Increase in Activity Levels – February 1, 2021

February 1, 2021 — 
The CRCS recommended and the President has approved a small increase in the number of employees attending our campuses.

Students

Aurora Self Service Temporary Shut Down

January 29, 2021 — 
Aurora Self Service is undergoing a maintenance shut down to support the upgrade of Banner Document Management Friday, February 19th from 5:00 pm CST to February 21st 8:00 pm CST. Please mark these dates in your calendar and plan ahead! 

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Students

Banner and Aurora Self Service outage to support Banner Document Management (BDM) upgrade

January 29, 2021 — 
Banner Administration Pages and Aurora Self Service will be unavailable February 19th from 5:00 pm CST to February 21st 8:00 pm CST for maintenance to support the upgrade of Banner Document Management (BDM).

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Asper School of Business

Endowment supported by the Associates announced in honour of Dean Emeritus, Roland Grandpré

January 28, 2021 — 
Grandpré played a leading role in establishing The Associates, one of the most effective business support groups in Canada.

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Kinesiology student appreciates support and resources of Access Program

January 28, 2021 — 
I definitely recommend "Access to anyone starting university. Access goes above and beyond to provide us with support. I can’t imagine my university experience without it." - Taylor Tutkaluke

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Thaw slumps are also a sign of the permafrost warming. These can be seen just barely in the satellite image as small dark regions along cliff faces, both facing the ocean and within the river drainage basins. Erosion and slumping expose ancient organic carbon to the air and the hydrosphere, thus providing an extensive positive feedback to climate warming.

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

Thomsen River Estuary, Banks Island: Photo Essay

January 28, 2021 — 
NASA and UM team up to show the remote beauty of Northern Canada

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