Indigenous News Archive
![Profile of Margaret Hart.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Margaret-Hart-150x150.jpg)
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Ininiw scholar bringing Indigenous curriculum to occupational therapy
January 27, 2023 —
Since joining the College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences in the role of Ininiw scholar, Margaret Hart has been working toward a complete rebuild of the occupational therapy program to incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing.
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Indigenous
“A place of belonging, friendship and learning”
January 12, 2023 —
Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program continues to grow across the province
![Two students featured walking together indoors, while masked., various other students, also masked are walking by.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2022May06_DSC08216e-150x150.jpg)
Students
Welcome to Winter Term 2023
January 9, 2023 —
Find out how to get involved and stay connected outside of formal classes through programs, events, and activities that have been planned throughout January.
![mage from the office of the Governor General of Canada: The insignia of the Order is a stylized snowflake of six points, with a red annulus at its centre which bears a stylized maple leaf circumscribed with the motto of the Order: DESIDERANTES MELIOREM PATRIAM–Latin for “They desire a better country”.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Order-of-Canada-image_WEB-150x150.jpg)
Members of UM community appointed to Order of Canada
January 6, 2023 —
On Dec. 29, 2022, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, announced 99 new appointments to the Order of Canada, 3 from the UM community.
![University and community representatives work at tables in a conference room.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_4699-150x150.jpg)
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Rehab partnership with First Nations grows
December 15, 2022 —
A First Nations partnership at the College of Rehabilitation Sciences has doubled its community reach in the last six years.
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Faculty of Law
UM makes Indigenous Law course mandatory for all law students, and offers new concentrations this fall
December 9, 2022 —
A course in Indigenous law will be mandatory for all law students starting next year, and students will also have the opportunity to focus their studies in one of three new concentrations including Private Enterprise and the Law, Law and Society, and Criminal Law and Justice, in addition to the existing concentration in Access to Justice in French. Graduate law students will also see changes to the Master of Laws program including now having the opportunity to take clinical experience electives.
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Patient and community engagement essential to Indigenous health research: speakers
December 7, 2022 —
Keynote presentations at Indigenous Health Research Symposium highlight respectful research partnerships
![Vickar Business Law students at the 2022 VIBE Awards (Far left) Elise Janzen, Jenna Symons, Emily Palmer, Johanna Thiessen, Julia Beal, Alli Knox, Connor Jonsson.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/VIBE-Awards-2022-Vickar-students-cropped-IMG_3711-150x150.jpg)
Faculty of Law
Together, we can achieve
December 2, 2022 —
On November 17, students from the L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic attended the Visionary Indigenous Business Excellence (VIBE) Awards at the RBC Convention Centre.
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NCTR and SSHRC partner to launch new funding for Indigenous-led research
November 23, 2022 —
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) will invest $6 million to support Indigenous-led research across Canada.
![The UM STARlab team in the clean room at Magellan Aerospace with the UM satellite](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cubesat-team-150x150.jpg)
Actually, it is rocket science
November 18, 2022 —
Ferguson is an associate professor in mechanical engineering, the NSERC / Magellan Aerospace Industrial Research Chair in Satellite Engineering at UM, and the director of STARLab, a suite of projects based in the Price Faculty of Engineering and where he is telling me about his work.