UM Today Archives

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.

October 19, 2017 —  A cart at Grand Beach and some entrepreneurial spirit—that’s how the founders of clothing giant Mondetta got their start in the late 1980s.

October 19, 2017 —  Dr. Nathalie Sleno [MD/11] is a physician‚ pilot‚ mother of seven and one of 17 Canadians whom the Canadian Space Agency shortlisted to become the country’s next astronaut.

October 19, 2017 —  In an old cabinet in the Buller Building‚ faculty uncovered beautiful botanical images‚ diagrams and charts in ink and watercolour dating back to the early 1900s.

October 19, 2017 —  He remembers the exact moment when everything clicked. He was a teen, into classical music‚ when the Beatles’ She Loves You came on the radio—“It literally transformed my life.”

October 19, 2017 —  He grew up working at his uncle’s movie theatre and while sweeping up popcorn‚ fell in love with film.

October 19, 2017 —  It’s no wonder Ian Fleming reportedly fashioned James Bond after the late Sir William Stephenson [DSc/79]‚ a Winnipeg-born war hero who once taught U of M students.

October 19, 2017 —  Cool stuff belonging to Distinguished Professor David Barber [BPE/82, MNRM/89], Canada Research Chair in Arctic-System Science and associate dean of research in the Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources.

October 19, 2017 —  The goliath, extinct turtle hanging from the ceiling probably wouldn’t have eaten you.

October 19, 2017 —  We are just a little boat in the sea, and we go where the sea wants us to go.