Alumni News Archive
Students
Six suggestions to improve work-life balance
November 14, 2019 —
Recognizing that a manageable workload for one may be overwhelming for another, here are six suggestions to assist in managing the demands of work, school and life
Asper School of Business
Q & A with an MBA: Tanis Brako [MBA/19]
November 13, 2019 —
As a full-time Manager of Customer Energy Services at Manitoba Hydro and mother of two young children, it would seem that balancing the Asper MBA program would have been challenging for recent graduate Tanis Brako. But not only did Brako successfully complete her MBA, she thrived in the program while finding additional time to support others in her industry.
UM friends, alumna honoured for contributions in philanthropy
November 12, 2019 —
Three influential UM donors have been announced as recipients of the 2019 Manitoba Philanthropy Awards by the Manitoba Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals
Philanthropy jump-starts career for ag grad
November 12, 2019 —
Giselle McNally was the 2018 recipient of the Manitoba Pork Council Prize for students in the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Asper School of Business
Céleste Grimard [PhD/03] – Asper alumna inducted into the Royal Society of Canada for her research on healthy workplaces
November 12, 2019 —
Asper graduate Céleste Grimard [PhD/03] was recently elected to the Class of 2019 as Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Division of Social Sciences. Grimard studied at Asper from 1995 to 2003, completing her dissertation under the guidance of Asper School of Business professors Raymond Lee, Bruno Dyck and John Godard.
In Remembrance: University of Manitoba alumni at Normandy
November 6, 2019 —
We join in the commemoration of the noble and selfless actions of 150,000 Allied troops who landed at Normandy seventy five years ago, turning the tide of the Second World War
That time when … a Nobel Prize winner gave me a scholarship
November 5, 2019 —
Student learns his scholarship was funded by a Nobel Laureate
![Alumnus Luther Konadu [BFA(Hons)/2019] won first prize, the Joan McConnell Award & Residency for Outstanding Work, for his piece Figure as Index.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Konadu_cropped-for-web-150x150.jpg)
Alumni win esteemed art prize
November 5, 2019 —
Two School of Art alumni have won the prestigious Salt Spring National Art Prize
The university at war
November 5, 2019 —
Eighty years ago this September, Hitler’s armies invaded Poland, thrusting the world into the Second World War
Wpg Free Press: From Polo Park to Central Park EQ3 in NYC
November 4, 2019 —
Designed by Thom Fougere, the company’s former creative director and a graduate of the University of Manitoba’s environmental design program, the building is in stark contrast to the literal brick-and-mortar design of nearby flagships