Influencer News Archive

October 26, 2021 — 
What do Elders have to say about climate change? Student and film buff Justin Langan finds out

April 16, 2021 — 
Why this UM Bison soccer star Dalima Chhibber got mobbed at the mall

September 29, 2020 — 
Meet author John Stintzi and their journey into self that’s earning critical acclaim

November 4, 2019 — 
Meet Aandeg Muldrew, who, at 19, became UM’s youngest instructor.

May 2, 2019 — 
Meet Faouzia Ouihya, singer-songwriter who shuffles between classes and the Billboard charts.

October 24, 2018 — 
Meet composer Luke Nickel, who loves the mystery of sound—and never got to play the harp.

May 1, 2018 — 
Meet Cheyenne Thomas, a force behind the vision for the Indigenous Peoples’ Garden.

October 19, 2017 — 
Zahra Baseri’s school headmaster in Iran warned her often that girls shouldn’t ride bicycles. Any female who dared to do so would endure a painful fate in the afterlife.

May 1, 2017 — 
Chimwemwe Undi [BA(Adv)/16] loves to see quirky misspellings on Twitter, like Pre-Madonna. While grammarians get mad, the 22-year- old linguistics grad—a rising star in Canadian spoken word poetry—gets excited.

September 26, 2016 — 
Only a few short years ago, Michelle McHale had a clear message for her same-sex partner: “I’m not ashamed by our relationship, but I’m not going to run down the street carrying a rainbow flag.”