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Marcia Nozick: 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient for Professional Achievement.

Alumni

Marcia Nozick: 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient for Professional Achievement

February 4, 2019 — 
Nozick founded EMBERS, an innovative temporary labour company that has helped thousands of people facing work barriers attain full-time employment

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Indigenous

A critical lens on legal reconciliation

February 1, 2019 — 
Meet Indigenous scholar Dr. Jeremy Patzer [MA/08]

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Food Systems Research Group

The evolution of Canada’s international food assistance policies

January 31, 2019 — 
Changes in international food assistance policies benefit recipient countries

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Performance Artist Shawna Dempsey

Faculty of Arts

Working with Wonder

January 29, 2019 — 
Winnipeg-based performance artists, Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan, hippety-hop through grand questions of time, space, science and aesthetics, asking “what is more important than wonder?”. The University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities helps to bring the explorative performance to Winnipeg audiences.

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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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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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