UM Today Archives

October 25, 2023 —  New Academic Jobs - October 25, 2023

October 24, 2023 —  Fourteen teams of 3rd-year Robson Hall students competed in the eighteenth annual Robson Hall Negotiation Competition on the evening of October 11th, 2023. Due to their stellar performance, the negotiating team of Nicolas Nudler and Ryan Hall were awarded first place. The runners up, who also did a tremendous job, were Jamie Robertson and Rebecca Penner. Both teams will have the opportunity to represent Robson Hall and compete in the Canadian National Negotiation Competition in the new year.

October 24, 2023 —  As part of the Baird Poskanzer Memorial Lecture Series, the Faculty of Social Work welcomes Dr. Chris Chapman, associate professor, York University to speak on the history of the social work profession and their book "A Violent History of Benevolence: Interlocking Oppression in the Moral Economies of Social Working".  Dr. Chapman will explore how normative social work history is structured in such a way that contemporary social workers can know many details about social work’s violences, without ever imagining that they may also be complicit in these violences. They will discuss concepts from their book and how the framings of social work history actively create present-day political and ethical irresponsibility, even among those who imagine themselves to be anti-oppressive, liberal, or radical. 

October 24, 2023 —  The Asper School of Business is championing sustainability with a series of initiatives engaging staff, faculty, students and alumni. In light of UM’s Sustainability Month, Dean Bruno Silvestre is excited to highlight Asper’s commitment to sustainability in business education.

October 24, 2023 —  They've walked across the stage in May or October, and now St John's college celebrates the 2022/23 graduating college members on November 5th, 2023. Over the last year, St John's college has given out $180,000 worth of scholarships and bursaries to students across the University of Manitoba who are members of the college.

October 24, 2023 —  Morgan Taverner says that attending the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences Graduate Studies Open House is one of the most important things an undergraduate student can do if they’re thinking about pursuing grad school.

October 24, 2023 —  Manitoba leads the way in many agricultural practices that are better than any other jurisdiction in Canada, but there is room to grow, says a renowned agricultural researcher from the University of Manitoba.

October 24, 2023 —  Emily Antonio, Métis student, is one of the recipients of the Indigenous Undergraduate Scholarship in Education.

October 23, 2023 —  The Manitoba Public Insurance strike shows the NDP's support for arbitration is ... arbitrary

October 23, 2023 —  Humanitarian aid to Gaza delayed