Alumni News Archive

April 10, 2025 — 
Meet the two candidates in the running.

March 31, 2025 — 
From student to instructor to donor, Dr. Christopher Cottick continues to shape the future of dentistry in Manitoba

March 19, 2025 — 
Seun Bammeke [BComm(Hons)/10] shares that his love of business started at a young age, watching his brother go out to school each day and come back with more than he left with. An Asper BComm alum, Bammeke is a serial entrepreneur today, starting and running multiple businesses since his formal career beginnings in logistics and supply chain.

March 17, 2025 — 
Three University of Manitoba Faculty of Law teams from Robson Hall recently competed in the ninth annual Canadian National Negotiation Competition (CNNC). The competition was held at the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law in Windsor on March 6th and 7th, 2025, and had both a French and an English stream. Against a talented field of the best law student negotiators from across Canada, the three U of M teams of Larissa Einarson and Kirsten Nynych; Heather Peterson and Erin Kyriakopoulos; and Tess Poulton and Maia Bacchus put in extremely strong showings with Heather and Erin receiving an award for "Best Process Management."

March 13, 2025 — 
Celebrate UM’s 66th Distinguished Alumni Awards, presented by TD Insurance—honouring UM alumni whose work is shaping Manitoba and the world.

March 10, 2025 — 
The latest issue of RadyUM magazine is available now, online and in print. The cover story introduces the new College of Community and Global Health – soon to be the sixth college encompassed by the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences.

March 3, 2025 — 
Seven faculty and alumni have recently been appointed to the  Manitoba Clean Environment Commission (CEC) board, an important arms-length provincial  agency under the Environment Act.

February 28, 2025 — 
Today’s medical students are extraordinary individuals with great capacity to contribute as physicians, but the health-care system must change to support them in achieving their best, a distinguished medical alum said at a recent UM awards dinner.

February 19, 2025 — 
Alia Marcinkow [B.Sc./08, B.Sc.(Pharm)/14] puts the “community” in community pharmacist.

February 14, 2025 — 
Law students passing under the name sign above the door of Robson Hall’s largest classroom, may not be aware of the weight and impact it bears on the advocacy training they receive within its walls. The Moot Courtroom was named in honour of Harry Walsh, O.C., LL.D., Q.C. (1913 – 2011), one of Canada’s greatest and most respected advocates who graduated from the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law in 1937.