Environment Earth and Resources News Archive

March 24, 2015 — 
Helping bring food to northern communities

March 17, 2015 — 
Heather Kuppe named Co-operative Education Student Champion

March 5, 2015 — 
U of M Arctic researchers share their expertise with students from across Manitoba at Arctic Science Day

March 3, 2015 — 
Over the ten-year history of the Riddell Faculty, numerous working relationships with organizations, communities, and institutions in Canada’s North have been developed. Two important partnerships, with the University College of the North (UCN) and the Northern Manitoba Mining Academy (NMMA), seek to provide greater access to training and educational opportunities for northern Manitobans.

February 16, 2015 — 
An Arctic explorer who developed a taste for adventure by touring Europe in an RV his dad built

February 3, 2015 — 
Two recent graduates Michel Leclaire (B. Env. Sc. (Hons.) May 2013) and Nick Kosmenko (B. Env. Sc. (Hons.) May 2013) were the first students to have completed their degrees as part of a University College of the North (UCN) transfer agreement with the Riddell Faculty and the University of Manitoba. This initiative is open to graduates of the two Year Natural Resource Management Technology Diploma from University College of the North who may apply for admission into the Bachelor of Environmental Science program in the Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth and Resources. Successful applicants will be granted 60 credit hours of transfer credit on admission towards the completion of the 120 credit hour Bachelor of Environmental Science degree.

January 29, 2015 — 
Today: Free public lecture by one of the world's leading climate change researchers

January 22, 2015 — 
Robert Bury Ferguson, Professor Emeritus in the department of geological sciences, died on Jan. 18, just shy of his 95th birthday

January 14, 2015 — 
The ice is rotting

January 6, 2015 — 
The U of M played a role in the discovery of Sir John Franklin’s ship which disappeared nearly two centuries ago.