Feature Archive

May 3, 2016 — 
While we celebrate the many victories for women, we wonder: What would Nellie McClung do?

May 3, 2016 — 
International students leave their home communities to make or break at the U of M. Much of their success depends on the support they find in their new community.

May 3, 2016 — 
Told they would never succeed, a team of alumni has pioneered a piece of medical technology that is making the impossible possible.

May 3, 2016 — 
Every hour, expectant parents around the world are reassured of the health of their unborn child thanks to one of today’s most common diagnostic tools—the ultrasound—and one of its earliest pioneers, U of M’s Dr. Edward Lyons.

May 3, 2016 — 
Engineer Diana Nicholson says she goes where she’s needed most. So far, that’s been to turbulent refugee camps in Chad, South Sudan and the Central African Republic, and to the frontlines of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.

May 3, 2016 — 
It’s not easy working in a hazmat suit in a Containment Level 4 laboratory. You get tired. You get dehydrated. And then there’s the small matter of working with the world’s most dangerous viruses. But Gary Wong wouldn’t have it any other way.

May 3, 2016 — 
Karen Beaudin has dedicated both her professional and volunteer life to helping the city’s most vulnerable.

May 3, 2016 — 
To its members, the Hong Kong Alumni Association feel like an extension of their family. For more than three decades they’ve fostered meaningful, long-lasting connections to the U of M among graduates in Hong Kong—home to one of the largest alumni populations outside of North America.

May 3, 2016 — 
With her University of Manitoba commerce degree, Emmie Leung [BComm(Hons)/76] started a one-woman recycling operation and grew it into a $100 million family of companies that has shaped how we protect the planet for future generations.

May 3, 2016 — 
How we’re reconstructing Indigenous education for all Canadians.