UM Today Archives

February 29, 2024 —  Recently completing his doctorate at the University of Birmingham, Dr. Ryan Turnbull dives into his reasoning of why church buildings are becoming more vacant.  

February 29, 2024 —  Do the things that challenge and scare you, and lean into the discomfort that may come with it. Not to be totally cliché, but there’s this saying, “life begins at the end of your comfort zone”, and I feel as though they are good words to live by.

February 28, 2024 —  This year the Faculty of Law provided training on developing basic conflict resolution skills to members of the law school faculty and administrative staff. The six engaging workshops, led by Winnipeg company Facilitated Solutions, were designed to inspire while providing practical tools for dealing with everything from everyday tensions to highly charged social and political realities.

February 28, 2024 —  Before taking a winter term break, law students packed the Robson Hall Common Room on February 13 to experience Métis culture at an event held in honour of Louis Riel Day. The Manitoba Indigenous Law Students’ Association organized a program of traditional food, dance, beading art and a panel sharing the knowledge of Métis community members with fellow students and faculty.

February 28, 2024 —  The University of Manitoba’s annual Sustainability Night is coming up on Mar. 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. in Marshall McLuhan Hall. This year’s theme is the UM Climate Action Plan (CAP), which will be the main focus of presentations from UM faculty, students and staff.

February 28, 2024 —  Strachan, a theatre artist, works with non-profit organizations and communities teaching theatre.

February 28, 2024 —  Nine graduate teams, representing business schools across Canada, convened in Winnipeg for the second annual Asper Business Case Competition. This year’s expanded competition offered unique business challenges and an exceptional networking opportunity for graduate students.

February 28, 2024 —  In the new UM Learn module “Understanding social identities among faculty and students,” instructors can learn to recognize their own identities and those of their students, to help them develop strategies that promote engagement and success in the classroom.

February 28, 2024 —  The deaths of five people this week in southern Manitoba are a clear example of domestic violence and come in the midst of an epidemic of intimate partner violence in the province and beyond, experts say. "When anything ends in a fatality, when a life is taken, that's the most severe form of violence that someone can endure," said Tracie Afifi, a University of Manitoba professor in the department of community health sciences. "Here we have the death of an intimate partner … [and] we have the deaths of three children that were part of that relationship and a fourth family member as well, who was also a child," she said. "Without a doubt this is intimate partner violence."  Kendra Nixon, a professor in the Faculty of Social Work and the Director of RESOLVE at the University of Manitoba, says it's troubling to see the issue rising.

February 28, 2024 —  Winnipeg Free Press: Parents sentenced to house arrest in death of toddler who died in care of nine-year-old sister