Community Stories News Archive
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Students
Five Students Named to Top 40 under 40
April 13, 2016 —
The University of Manitoba is so proud of all of the wonderful accomplishments of our five students who were named to CBC’s Top 40 Under 40.
![2016 Student-Athlete Leadership and Community Development Award winners Jordan DePape and Chloe Werle // Photo by Jeff Miller](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Jordan-DePape-and-Chloe-Werle-150x150.jpg)
Every little bit counts
April 11, 2016 —
Balancing academic studies, training and finding time to volunteer can be difficult but in the end it’s worth it
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Students
Our emerging leader students celebrated
March 14, 2016 —
On Wednesday, March 9, at the annual Emerging Leaders Dinner, Gabrielle Scrimshaw – the Indigenous advocate, activist and entrepreneur – shared a personal story about how a small gesture can have a powerful impact on another person.
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Has Manitoba put the right value on post-secondary education?
February 24, 2016 —
Visionary Conversations in the Community looks at universities and colleges, Feb. 24 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Students, Faculty Respond to Syrian Refugee Crisis
January 5, 2016 —
Health-care providers are trained to offer medical and health care, but reaching out to those in need on the other side of the world? For University of Manitoba first-year medical students Rami Elzayat and Zeenib Kohja – as well as for Faculty of Health Sciences faculty members- that’s just second nature.
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Community Stories
Giving Back
December 16, 2015 —
From December 14 to 18 Bison athletes are helping to serve breakfast and lunch, as well as provide support at the homeless shelter wherever it’s needed
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Faculty of Education
Sistema Winnipeg: Music for social action
November 27, 2015 —
'Unique orchestral program supports empowerment of culturally marginalized and economically disenfranchised children through music'
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Building Community
October 13, 2015 —
It takes a village to raise a child. Although its origins trace back many years, if not decades, only now is the ideal of this traditional African proverb starting to become familiar to those in the western world. It’s a concept that is both altruistic and simplistic in nature and harkens back to a simpler time in Canadian society when small towns and local neighbourhoods formed the lifeblood of a community.
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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Get me off the island
July 17, 2015 —
Colin Penner, a farm management instructor in the School of Agriculture, will raise funds for STARS air ambulance this fall.