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Catherine "Kiki" Delaney [BA/1969, LLD/2011].

Accomplished U of M grad makes cover of Globe and Mail Report on Business

January 25, 2019 — 
The cover of the February 2019 Globe and Mail Report on Business features U of M grad Kiki Delaney [BA/1969, LLD/2011]

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Image of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Alumni

Alumni at Home: Listen, learn, don’t repeat

January 22, 2019 — 
For decades, Belle Jarniewski has made it her life’s work to bolster curriculums and contribute to international resources so that the Holocaust is never forgotten or repeated

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a robot hand holding a human hand, surrounded by hearts

NY Times: Do you take this robot?

January 22, 2019 — 
Philosophy professor Neil McArthur weighs in on a 'digisexuality', the love of robots

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Photo of Dr. Dallas Hunt

Indigenous

A lifelong learner of the Cree language, Indigenous scholar publishes his first book

January 17, 2019 — 
First to obtain a PhD from his nation, Dr. Dallas Hunt also welcomes his first book, Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock.

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Duncan Mercredi

Faculty of Arts

Cree-Métis poet and storyteller latest Writer-In-Residence

January 17, 2019 — 
The Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture welcomes Duncan Mercredi as its Winter 2019 Writer-In-Residence

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George Rubenfeld (centre) with his family in France, 1950. // Photo credit: Belle Jarniewski, Voices of Winnipeg Holocaust Survivors

Alumni

Life after the Holocaust: Alumni who survived

January 17, 2019 — 
Jan. 27 marked the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Second World War – a day set aside by the United Nations to commemorate the Holocaust

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GLTCR

Food Systems Research Group

FSRG talk – A quarter century of organic & ecological research and teaching

January 16, 2019 — 
Jan 30 FSRG talk: Martin Entz shares insight into 27 years of plant science studies at the University of Manitoba

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Food Systems Research Group

Pillsbury Bake-Off contest a slice of American home baking history

January 16, 2019 — 
The evolution of American food culture through the lens of corporate influence

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Distinguished Alumni Awards 2019.

Building better futures for all: meet the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients

January 16, 2019 — 
UM graduates making the world a better place

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Coins on a table.

The Conversation: Not every tax break is a smart tax break

January 15, 2019 — 
Whenever government adjusts taxation rules to offer a deduction or credit, economists call this a “tax expenditure” to distinguish it from the direct expenditures authorized by treasury boards

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