Alumni News Archive
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Sculpture gifted to UM salutes health-care heroes, female scientists
September 1, 2022 —
A bronze sculpture has been installed on the Bannatyne campus in honour of all the health-care workers who have stepped up to fight COVID-19, and in tribute to women in medical science.
Faculty of Law
New book from retired law professor Alvin Esau explores dramatic 1920s serial killer case
August 30, 2022 —
Robson Hall Alumni may remember Professor Alvin Esau as a mild-mannered Albertan with an LLM from Harvard and an interest in ethics, professional responsibility, and the legal history of anabaptist communities. Having previously published a study on The Courts and the Colonies: The Litigation of Hutterite Church Disputes (UBC Press, 2004), no one would suspect that his new book would be about a violent serial killer from the 1920s known as the “Gorilla Man Strangler.” This summer, Professor Esau, a faculty member from 1977 to 2010, has got away with – publishing about – murder.
Faculty of Architecture
HALF A CENTURY – Master of Landscape Architecture turns 50
August 30, 2022 —
The Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) program at the University of Manitoba, Faculty of Architecture, celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2022
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Learn from your patients, distinguished alum tells new medical students
August 26, 2022 —
Stay humble and listen to your patients, a distinguished UM alumnus told first-year students at their official welcome to medical school on Aug. 24.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Neuroscientist thrives in faculty role as researcher, teacher, mentor
August 10, 2022 —
Alumna helps shape the minds of future researchers and pharmacists while advancing the field of neuroscience
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Longtime dean of health sciences featured in new issue of RadyUM
August 5, 2022 —
Dr. Brian Postl, the long-serving dean of health sciences and medicine at UM, shares his retirement reflections in the latest issue of RadyUM magazine, now posted online.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Video celebrates Indigenous alumni of Diploma in Agriculture program
July 28, 2022 —
Video series celebrates accomplishments of Indigenous alumni and First Nations communities
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Dr. Peter Nickerson appointed dean of health sciences and medicine
July 28, 2022 —
Dr. Peter Nickerson, a prominent physician and researcher in the field of organ transplantation, has been appointed dean of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and dean of the Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba
Faculty of Law
A match made in law: Wedding gift to students establishes new Prize for Alternative Dispute Resolution in Family Law
July 25, 2022 —
Thinking outside the (gift) box, law professor Dr. Jennifer L. Schulz and her fiancé, family lawyer Elliott Goszer are giving, rather than receiving, a wedding gift to benefit law students at their alma mater, the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law. The Schulz/Goszer Prize for Alternative Dispute Resolution in Family Law will be given annually to a University of Manitoba law student who writes the best Alternative Dispute Resolution-themed paper in an upper year family law course, or the best family law-themed paper in an upper year dispute resolution course.