Alumni News Archive

January 8, 2024 — 
Alum Christina Keeper talks about her "dream job" delivering physiotherapy to schoolchildren in seven First Nations communities.

January 5, 2024 — 
Gustavo (Gus) Castaneda’s nursing purpose is embedded in a desire to improve patient care and see members of his team succeed.

December 22, 2023 — 
Message from Warden and Vice-Chancellor, Allison Abra celebrating St John's College accomplishments from 2023.  I hope you enjoy this video retrospective of our last year at St John's College. It's been a wonderful year the first normal feeling one since the pandemic where we have welcomed new students, fellows, and staff to our community. We have celebrated academic excellence through Convocation and graduation banquet, awarded many scholarships to our students, and seen our fellows produce incredible scholarship, and have had wonderful visits with alumni here in Winnipeg and across Canada.  That's the best part of my job is connecting with all of you at different stages of your life in connection to the College and so I hope to see you in 2024.  In the meantime, I wish you a happy holiday season, everyone at the College is, and a wonderful new year. 

December 21, 2023 — 
First-year Juris Doctor student Tréchelle Bunn finished her first term of law school on a high note as the inaugural recipient of the newly-established Wendy Whitecloud Bursary in Law. The Bursary was established in 2022 to be awarded annually to a First Nation, Inuit or Métis female or transfeminine student enrolled in her first year of full-time studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba. According to Métis alum Roxanne Gagné [LLB/2008] who initiated the bursary fund, she and other members of the legal profession contributed to the fund to give back to community and support diversity in the legal profession as well as help forge a path towards reconciliation by making legal education attainable to such students.

December 21, 2023 — 
Delve into these top reads from UM alumni and faculty over the holiday break. Spark your imagination or get your mind ruminating on far off worlds, fiction close to home, true crime or a little history.

December 19, 2023 — 
Growing up in rural Manitoba, specifically Kenton then Neepawa, Nicole has always been a curious person, wanting to try new things, travel the world, and enjoy herself while doing it. Upon graduating high school, Nicole spent a year in Taiwan as a Rotary Exchange student, then received her Fine Arts degree at the University of Manitoba. Coming from a small community, Nicole stayed at the St John's college residence while studying. She was the international student representative and a Don in her last year. She loved every minute of the small college community.

December 18, 2023 — 
Donations to the Food Bank not only help put essentials like non-perishable food into students’ cupboards but also personal hygiene items, like toothpaste, shampoo, and soap.

December 18, 2023 — 
UM Alumni did some amazing things in 2023. Like Faculty of Law grad Hardeep Suri [JD/2023] who contributed to the development of ground-breaking legal app Law Newbie and UM School of Art graduate Joel Nichols was named UM’s 100th Rhodes Scholar, the first ever successful finalist from the School of Art. 

December 14, 2023 — 
Alumna Dr. Tammy Stuart Chester is passionate about public health, public health surveillance and using data for action.

December 14, 2023 — 
The ENG 1430 Design Showcase challenged first-year students to design, build and test a scaled prototype to present to industry professionals.