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Upgrade your skills at work

Register for January Learning and Organizational Development workshops

Looking to upgrade your skills at work?

Learning & Organizational Development (LOD) has announced that registration is open for January 2025 workshops. LOD programs and services are fully funded by Human Resources as part of its commitment to employee development, with courses available exclusively to University of Manitoba employees.

All UM employees can visit the LODreg web page right now to view available programs. February workshops and sessions will open for registration in early January.

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Navigating retirement: UM’s holistic supports for staff and faculty

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Registration is open for Take Our Kids to Work Day

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Faculty of Law student, alumni in Ace Burpee’s Top 100 Most Fascinating Manitobans of 2024

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Learning with Chief Wilton Littlechild

On Friday, December 6, 2024, members of the Manitoba Indigenous Law Students’ Association assembled for their monthly meeting with Indigenous faculty members but this time they were joined by a very special guest: Chief Wilton Littlechild, CC; KC; IPC; FP; BA, MA, LLB(Alta); LLD(Alta)(Leth)(Man). The renowned Treaty 6 lawyer, politician, athlete, Cree chief, and advocate for Indigenous rights had come to speak at the law school’s Indigenous Legal Methodologies and Perspectives class and also spend some quality time with MILSA members.

Daniel Diamond, Faculty of Law, Indigenous, Indigenous Alumni, Leo Baskatawang, Manitoba Indigenous Law Student Association, Marc Kruse

Articulating postdoctoral legal research – in three minutes

With a research paper in the works for publication in the latest issue of The Manitoba Law Journal, Dr. Illia Roskoshnyi, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law, took a chance on entering the University of Manitoba’s second annual Three Minute Postdoctoral (3MP) Competition this past September.

Faculty of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Law, Illia Roskoshnyi

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