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Canadian Press: Canada’s Scott still relishes role as a midfielder destroyer

February 3, 2020 — 
10 years on the national team for Scott

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Students

Volunteer at UM Orientation 2020!

January 31, 2020 — 
Orientation volunteers and more experienced Orientation team leaders build skills in leadership and communication, and receive credit on their co-curricular record (CCR). 

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Headshots of Dr. John Brady Kiesling and Dr. Sheila Dillon

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Reconstructing monuments helps share history with new generations

January 27, 2020 — 
The Department of Classics invites one and all to join them this February as they welcome two distinguished academics to present the latest installments in their long-standing annual lecture series. Both events are free and open to the public.

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The Dean's Lecture on Smart Transportation

Where do we go now Winnipeg?

January 23, 2020 — 
A public forum on the urban issues: Crime, poverty, and the renewal of the inner city

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Sunset in Greifswald, Germany town square

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My year in Germany

January 20, 2020 — 
Have you ever considered studying abroad? Timm Giessbrecht, a student in the Faculty of Arts, shares his story of one year of travel and learning to inspire others to consider a term in one of over 40 available countries.

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Three female performers with arms raised from the play Macbeth

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Setting Macbeth in the 1980s lets characters explore toxic masculinity

January 16, 2020 — 
The University of Manitoba Theatre Program is gearing up to present their second mainstage show of the 2019-2020 season – Macbeth - by the most celebrated playwright of all time, William Shakespeare.

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Canadian money. // Photo: KMR Photography/flickr

We need to modernize how we measure national wealth

January 16, 2020 — 
First, how expansive do we wish to define unpaid work?

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Dr. Laurie Shannon presents at a podium

Faculty of Arts

Sidney Warhaft Memorial Lecture: ‘Calamities of Exposure: Shakespeare and the Natural History of Human Being’

January 13, 2020 — 
The 43rd annual Sidney Warhaft Memorial Lecture will be given by Dr. Laurie Shannon, Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at Northwestern University.

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Sustainability

Invent for the Planet coming to UM

January 13, 2020 — 
Invent for the Planet, a sustainability focused 48-Hour international idea and design competition, is open to all students (undergraduate and graduate) from all faculties and post-secondary institutions across Manitoba.

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Michael Sampson examines a papyri in teh University of Michigan's collection // Photo: Monica Tsuneishi

The Guardian: The curious case of the stolen gospel

January 9, 2020 — 
UM classics professor Mike Sampson helped bring this story to light

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