UM Today Archives

June 19, 2019 —  New Academic Jobs - June 19, 2019

June 19, 2019 —  The University of Manitoba is celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day with several events taking place June 20 on Bannatyne campus, and June 21 on the Fort Garry campus.

June 19, 2019 —  Asper undergraduate student Jared Kozak started working with technology in high school, when he offered to build a system to book tutors for his school district’s peer tutoring program. Kozak started to get a hang of building and the system began to shape up. It was then that Kozak realized he had a real interest for programming.

June 18, 2019 —  The Winnipeg General Strike and the arrival of Shoal Lake water in Winnipeg taps occurred at the same time, and in the same place, and are part of a larger story of Indigenous dispossession.

June 18, 2019 —  There is still time to register for the June 26 Food Systems Student Symposium!

June 18, 2019 —  Dr. Virginia Torrie is already known for her enthusiasm in the classroom for Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law, which many students have found surprisingly interesting. It is no wonder that Torrie has already won two teaching awards since starting her position as an assistant law professor at Robson Hall in 2015, including the Law Faculty’s Barney Sneiderman Award for Teaching Excellence in 2017 and a University of Manitoba 2017 Merit Award for Teaching last June.

June 18, 2019 —  The College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, will host an expanded Student Research Symposium on June 19, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the Bannatyne campus.

June 18, 2019 —  Learning and organizational development (LOD) has partnered with career services to develop a success program that helps staff build their careers at the university.

June 18, 2019 —  Cultural coordinator and student advisor Carl Stone has been sharing cultural knowledge to the U of M campus for nearly 22 years.

June 18, 2019 —  Federal government announces investment of over $275 million for 346 new and renewed Canada Research Chairs at 52 institutions across Canada for research excellence, including four at the University of Manitoba