UM Today Archives

October 10, 2023 —  Take Our Kids to Work Day is an event for participating Grade 9 students to learn about the diverse roles and jobs in the current labour market.

October 10, 2023 —  The Alzheimer Society of Canada announces support for two UM research projects

October 10, 2023 —  Gordon Giesbrecht organized the collection and distribution of roughly $50,000 worth of specialized medical equipment to help keep the soldiers on Ukraine's front lines warm during instances of trauma.

October 10, 2023 —  The University of Manitoba acknowledges that this past weekend’s news of violent conflict in Israel and Gaza has caused great distress and concern for members of our community.

October 10, 2023 —  Maclean’s magazine ranked UM second in mental health services among Canadian medical-doctoral universities in 2022. Here are 15 reasons why.

October 6, 2023 —  The Winnipeg Human Rights Tour began in 2022 as a way to introduce new Master of Human Rights program students to some of the many Human Rights aspects of Winnipeg. Beginning in St. Boniface at the grave of Louis Riel, founder of Manitoba, the tour has now been successfully delivered to two generations of Master of Human Rights students and has grown in content, scope and recognition.

October 6, 2023 —  This past summer, the Faculty of Arts gathered to celebrate the efforts and contributions of undergraduate student researchers.

October 6, 2023 —  Métis journal believed first of its kind in Canada

October 6, 2023 —  Over 150 runners assembled at the ruins of the Birtle, Manitoba Residential School on the morning of Saturday, September 30, to honour Residential School Survivors and those who never made it home. The ruins marked the starting line of the Second Annual Reconciliation Run, organized by first-year law student Tréchelle Bunn. Her home community, the Birdtail Sioux Dakota Nation, marked the finish line of the half-marathon, officially sanctioned by the Manitoba Runners’ Association

October 6, 2023 —  Twenty-five students entered the nurse practitioner (NP) stream of the College of Nursing’s master’s program this September, marking the 25th annual intake since the program launched in 1998.