Community Stories News Archive

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.

February 24, 2016 — 
The value of education isn’t determined solely by economics

February 24, 2016 — 
Visionary Conversations in the Community looks at universities and colleges, Feb. 24 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery

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.

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

November 27, 2015 — 
'Unique orchestral program supports empowerment of culturally marginalized and economically disenfranchised children through music'

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.

July 17, 2015 — 
Colin Penner, a farm management instructor in the School of Agriculture, will raise funds for STARS air ambulance this fall.

July 16, 2015 — 
Three-day interactive camp introduces students to the U of M, its professors, and its science labs.

June 16, 2015 — 
Associate Prof. Melanie Soderstrom provides parents with information about the importance of talking to their infants.