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UM United Way Campaign wraps-up for another year

January 10, 2022 — 
Once again, the UM community has stepped up to support United Way Winnipeg by raising over $556,000

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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”.

Members of UM community promoted, added to Order of Canada

January 7, 2022 — 
The new list includes 10 individuals from the UM community

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Influential business leader and revered role model Indra Nooyi announced as 2022 IDEA recipient

December 7, 2021 — 
Will be presented with the IDEA award at the 2022 IDEA dinner on May 3

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Young Friends of Engineering founding members Derek Neufeld, Katie Moist and Dan Nenadov stand socially distanced smiling and posing for the camera.

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Young Friends of Engineering celebrate first official event since establishment

October 29, 2021 — 
On October 21st, Young Friends of Engineering successfully celebrated their first event at Table Space in Winnipeg

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Doug Ruth stands and a podium wearing a white hard hat and a suit and tie. To his left, there is a rendering of the new Engineering Information and Technology Complex.

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Friends of Engineering to match gifts to scholarship fund

October 14, 2021 — 
Every dollar donated to the Douglas and Beverly Ruth Centenary Award in Engineering, up to $10,000, will be matched by Friends of Engineering, as well as an additional fifty cents from the Manitoba Scholarship and Bursary Initiative.

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United Way 'Because We Love Winnipeg' campaign graphic, with Winnipeg city sign and Canadian Museum for Human Rights in image.

‘Because we Love Winnipeg, Rally, Revive, and Thrive’

September 14, 2021 — 
UM 2021 United Way Campaign kicks off Sept. 17

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Wpg Free Press: U of M grad funds scholarship for Black law students

May 31, 2021 — 
The new David Sowemimo Law Entrance Scholarship is a $6,000 scholarship that will be awarded annually to a Black undergraduate student enrolled full time in the juris doctor degree program.

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Masked Students in Bookstore

Faculty, staff and retirees provide critical student support

April 21, 2021 — 
Thanks to the generosity of UM faculty, staff and retirees, $382,905.81 was raised through a total of 612 donors this past year

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A standing woman wearing a virtual-reality headset stretches one arm upward in front of her.

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New Gerry McDole Professor to test virtual-reality yoga for stroke rehabilitation

March 17, 2021 — 
Stroke survivors in rural Manitoba will wear virtual reality (VR) headsets for yoga sessions and memory-training exercises in an innovative UM pilot study. 

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Faculty, Staff, and Retirees Campaign provides needed support for our students

March 1, 2021 — 
Contributions to COVID-19 UM Student Technology Fund crucial to students’ success

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