experiential learning News Archive
Faculty of Law
L. Kerry Vickar Business and Arts Clinics summer student team ready to help
June 10, 2024 —
The Faculty of Law’s L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic and Manitoba Legal Clinic for the Arts have expanded capacity this summer, hiring a record number of seven law students.
Faculty of Law
Inuit Legal Clinic Summit at Robson Hall
May 16, 2024 —
The Faculty of Law and Perrie Law, with funding from the Manitoba Law Foundation, hosted a gathering of stakeholders on May 1 - 2 attending an Inuit Legal Clinic Summit. The purpose of the summit was to listen to community experiences with cross-jurisdictional legal issues and to determine the viability of an Inuit Legal Clinic in Winnipeg.
Faculty of Law
Making an impact on private enterprise in Manitoba
May 13, 2024 —
The Marcel A. Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise and the Law proudly presents its annual Impact Report 2024. This report is distributed across the academic, legal, and business communities to share the important achievements and contributions made by students, faculty, staff and community partners engaged in the work of the Centre at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law.
Asper School of Business
UM students collaborate to bring home case competition gold
April 30, 2024 —
Undergraduate students Ethan Harms, Habiba Mahmoud, Kenny May and Mustafa Khan travelled to Montréal in February to compete at the Engineering and Commerce Case Competition (ENGCOMM), the world’s only student-led multidisciplinary case competition.
Faculty of Law
Moot Report 2024: A season of excellence
April 23, 2024 —
The 2024 Moot season held another year of excellent learning opportunities for law students and resulted in several triumphs for the Manitoba moot teams. Awards won included the Spirit of the Laskin Award, the Spirit of Negotiation Award for the French stream of the Canadian National Negotiation Competition (CNNC), and recognition for the fourth-best mooter in the all-French language Bastarache moot.
Faculty of Law
Learning about Arts and Business Law needs of Northern Manitobans
April 22, 2024 —
From March 24-27, law students from the Manitoba Legal Clinic for the Arts and L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic attended the second annual Northern Arts & Food Workshop hosted at University College of the North in The Pas. While in The Pas students stayed on the Opaskwayak Cree Nation (OCN) at Kikiwak Inn. Learn about OCN and inspiring plans for the Opaskwayak community.
Asper School of Business
Asper undergraduate team wins first place in not-for-profit case competition and gives back
April 1, 2024 —
Asper students Joshua Peterson, Tyler Roslinsky, Taylor Bially and Sanjana Sabu won first prize at the Alberta Not-for-Profit’s External Case Competition this February, bringing home a $1,500 cash prize, which they donated back to the not-for-profit organization that helped them prepare for the competition.
Faculty of Arts
A camera in a can? Pop-up exhibition features student solargraphs
March 27, 2024 —
On April 5, 2024, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., students from ENGL 2140: Literature of the Victorian Period invite the UM community to a one-day pop-up exhibition Long Exposure: A Pinhole Photography Exhibition featuring images and written reflections on their experience using pinhole cameras to create solargraph images.,
Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
Nutritional Sciences students get a true taste of the real world
March 27, 2024 —
The hot lunch project is one of many ways that Dr. Snehil Dua incorporates Experiential Learning (EL) into her teaching. She is always looking for ways to help her students prepare for the dynamic demands of the food industry.
Students
Learn more about co-op as a student at UM
March 5, 2024 —
Co-op is one of the ways students can directly expand their understanding of the field. It opens many doors, leads to different horizons and illuminates different trajectories that students may not have been aware of. It also allows students to see the emerging trends in the field and get a glimpse of the direction that the industry may be heading towards.