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Head shots of UM's 2024 Honorary Doctorates.

Five people to be given highest honour at Spring Convocation 2024

June 6, 2024 — 
This Spring Convocation the University of Manitoba celebrates the achievements of over 4300 graduands and recognizes the distinguished achievements of five honorary degree recipients who have made our province and country better.

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Five Asian women in Science profiles.

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Celebrating the Asian communities at the Faculty of Science

May 24, 2024 — 
The Asian communities at the Faculty of Science include brilliant people from students in labs to instructors passionately teaching in classes, professors conducting ground-breaking research, and support staff who make our departments and the Faculty an extraordinary environment. With May being the Asian Heritage Month, we decided to shine the light on the contributions of the Asian communities at the Faculty and celebrate their presence.

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UM alumni among 2024 Order of Manitoba recipients

May 14, 2024 — 
On Manitoba Day, May 12, the Province of Manitoba announced that 12 highly-accomplished Manitobans will be invested in the Order of Manitoba, the province’s highest honour.

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Rick Zillman (right) founded the Miaw Jin Scholarship, to be given out for the first time this year, in memory of his wife of 48 years, Paulina (left).

A journey of education, love, and legacy

May 7, 2024 — 
To carry on his wife’s legacy of helping students, UM alum and retiree decided to make a planned gift to UM to fund a scholarship in her name.

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Exterior shot of the Machray Hall building.

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Machray Hall redevelopment

May 6, 2024 — 
We are pleased to unveil an exciting development set to commence in the summer of 2024 - the transformation of Machray Hall. This ambitious endeavour will see the emergence of a state-of-the-art facility designed to meet the evolving needs of our academic community.

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A kid in the middle of a bubble made with soap and hula loop by a university student wearing a red Science Rendezvous volunteer shirt.

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Science Rendezvous 2024 cancelled

May 2, 2024 — 
Saturday, May 11 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. right here on Fort Garry Campus. We will be there, the Faculty of Science, our campus and organization partners, and 700 volunteers! And we will bring you the biggest, most fun and most remarkable science outreach event of the year!

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A collection of graphics of cloud computing, computer, laptop, mouse, servers, network router, USB drive, disk drive, database, documents.

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Join us for the 2024 Computer Science Alumni and Industry Symposium

April 11, 2024 — 
The department of computer science is holding the 2024 Computer Science Alumni and Industry Symposium for the second year and invites everyone curious about anything computer science and tech-related to join the event on May 3, 2024, at the RBC Convention Centre.

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UM Eclipse viewing party media coverage

April 9, 2024 — 
UM Eclipse viewing party media coverage

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CTV Winnipeg: ‘It’s quite rare’: Partial solar eclipse to be viewable in Manitoba next week

April 2, 2024 — 
CTV Winnipeg: 'It’s quite rare': Partial solar eclipse to be viewable in Manitoba next week

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Portrait of Randi Roy, Microbiology Co-op student smiling with her arms crossed.

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Celebrating Work-Integrated Learning (WIL)

April 2, 2024 — 
March is CEWIL Canada Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) month in Canada where work-integrated learning (WIL) is celebrated. Work-integrated learning has become an integral part of the Canadian educational experience, fostering connections and collaboration between academia, industry, and community to prepare students for the workforce.

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