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Students
Introducing the 2020 Schulich Leader Scholarship recipients
June 29, 2020 —
Shubhneet Thind, a student from Miles Macdonell Collegiate, and Joshua Bond of Westwood Collegiate will soon join the UM community.
Desautels Faculty of Music
Kasey Kurtz’s playing will hypnotize you
June 29, 2020 —
2020 DFOM graduate Kasey Kurtz's guitar playing is transcendent
Students
Convocation 2020: Honouring Indigenous graduates
June 29, 2020 —
Meet some of the incredible members of the University of Manitoba’s class of 2020. UM campuses are uniquely strengthened by Indigenous student perspectives. The Indigenous campus community includes many student leaders who continue to define new directions and move our nations, province and country forward with their ideas and passions. The following Indigenous students will graduate during UM Virtual Convocation on June 29.
Faculty of Law
Juris Doctor Class of 2020
June 29, 2020 —
"I am a proud Métis woman who was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the birthplace of the Métis Nation and the heart of the Métis Nation Homeland," says Genevieve Benoit who attributes some amazing teachers and coaches at Vincent Massey Collegiate for encouraging her to set goals and work hard to reach them. She was an active member of the Alpha Gamma Delta women’s fraternity while completing a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Psychology at UM (2017). She returned to UM to study Law at Robson Hall because it was close to home, and allowed her to maintain connections and relationships with community, friends, and family.
Students
Convocation 2020 – Governor General’s Medal Recipients
June 29, 2020 —
Meet some of the incredible members of the University of Manitoba’s class of 2020. Today, these six exceptional students will be awarded the Governor General’s academic medals, for outstanding achievement at their level of study.
Students
President Barnard’s address to graduating students at UM Virtual Convocation 2020
June 29, 2020 —
The following is excerpted from the address University of Manitoba President and Vice-Chancellor David T. Barnard delivered to graduands at the 141st Annual Spring Convocation: Graduands, family members, friends, members of the University of Manitoba community: welcome. We are participating today in Convocation, the traditional recognition of accomplishments that brings closure to university experience.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
AG e-news June 25, 2020
June 26, 2020 —
News and events from the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Faculty of Law
Juris Doctor Class of 2020
June 26, 2020 —
A self-described band geek, Chimwemwe Undi attended Acadia Junior High when her family first immigrated to Winnipeg. After graduating from Fort Richmond Collegiate where she first discovered writing and performing poetry in the school's slam poetry club, she got serious with the scientific study of language, completing a B.A. (Adv) in linguistics at the University of Manitoba.
Faculty of Law
Convocation 2020 – Advocating for racial justice
June 26, 2020 —
Meet some of the incredible members of the University of Manitoba’s class of 2020. They will graduate during UM Virtual Convocation on June 29.
Desautels Faculty of Music
Jane Petroff has gone from “quiet sparrow” to “electric bombshell”
June 26, 2020 —
2020 DFOM graduate Jane Petroff has an incredible talent for arts, advocacy, and performing





