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3MT® 2021 applications are now being accepted

December 14, 2020 — 
Applications for the 2021 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition are now being accepted, so start preparing your presentations!

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Justice Murray Sinclair (centre) and Commissioners Chief Wilton Littlechild (left) and Marie Wilson pull back a blanket to unveil the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada on the history of Canada's residential school system, in Ottawa on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Remembering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s closing ceremony

December 11, 2020 — 
Dec. 15, 2020 marks the five-year anniversary of one of the key milestones in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC)’s journey: its closing ceremony and release of its final report

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A photo of one of the original buildings on the Bannatyne campus.

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Virgin Radio Winnipeg: The group of Manitoba students hoping to bring Christmas meals to ICU staff

December 11, 2020 — 
Students at the University of Manitoba have teamed up with a local business to help spread some holiday cheer to those working on the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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L: Drawing of a London coffeehouse, c. 1690–1700, British Museum; R: Students role-play a coffeehouse in immersive learning course, Literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.

Connection, passion drive teaching and learning at UM

December 9, 2020 — 
You could just read about English coffeehouses that began opening up in the 1600s. But wouldn’t it be more enriching to live it?

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Adapting our student support strategy during COVID-19

December 8, 2020 — 
Many of us have been called upon to adapt our work to these new circumstances and find new ways to provide supports and programming to students

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Anthropologists’ book wins award for innovative examination of tuberculosis

December 8, 2020 — 
Stacie Burke received the J.J. Talman Award for her latest book Building Resistance: Children, Tuberculosis, and the Toronto Sanatorium

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National team’s Desiree Scott heading back to Kansas City

December 8, 2020 — 
UM Bison women’s soccer alumna Desiree Scott’s professional life has taken another turn

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Wpg Free Press: Cold, dry truth

December 7, 2020 — 
Dr. Andrew Halayko, a UM pathophysiology professor specializing in lung diseases discusses COVID in our winter air

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Australian troops: Men of the 10th Brigade who had been in the front line trenches for several days have a foot inspection

Trench fever found among urban people who are homeless

December 7, 2020 — 
A disease common during the First World War, trench fever, has been found in some urban populations experiencing homelessness in Canada

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New Academic Jobs – December 2, 2020

December 3, 2020 — 
New Academic Jobs - December 2, 2020

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