Alumni News Archive

June 1, 2018 — 
Jennifer Shay (nee Walker), professor emerita who founded the renowned Delta Marsh Field Station, ushering in hands-on field work, died May 7 at age 88

May 30, 2018 — 
University of Manitoba alumna Tanis MacDonald has teamed up with CBC's Rosanna Deerchild to write GUSH: menstrual manifestos for our times.

May 30, 2018 — 
You can find Laura Michalchyshyn in the company of some of the biggest names in show business

May 28, 2018 — 
Karl Kohut (Assistant Professor, Jazz Bass) and Dr. Rebecca Simpson-Litke (Assistant Professor, Music Theory) join the Desautels Faculty of Music.

May 24, 2018 — 
The 2018 Year End Exhibition was once again a success

May 24, 2018 — 
Every galaxy is thought to harbor a supermassive black hole in the center, or nucleus, of the galaxy, and in active galaxies this black hole is fed by infalling matter. This “central engine” is typically surrounded by dusty molecular gas in a doughnut configuration, which hides the black hole and the infalling material from our view along certain viewing directions. The picture of a central engine plus obscuring doughnut is thought to apply to all accreting supermassive black holes, explaining the apparent variety of active galaxies from the very brightest quasars to the lower-luminosity radio galaxies under a single “unified scheme.”

May 23, 2018 — 
Michael Kaan received the 2018 Amazon.ca First Novel Award for his book The Water Beetles on Tuesday

May 22, 2018 — 
Jordana Milne shares why she 'lives & breathes' Mini U

May 22, 2018 — 
Jack J. Sures, one of Canada’s foremost ceramic artists, died May 12 in Regina, only a few weeks after receiving the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.

May 18, 2018 — 
With Spring Convocation just around the corner, we’re looking to you – our experienced alumni – to give our graduates some advice as they start the next chapter of their lives