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Mural featuring Indigenous symbols is unveiled. Blake Angeconeb stands near a lectern on the stage. People in the crowd are wearing orange shirts and some are taking photos of the mural.

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Indigenous Impact

June 19, 2023 — 
Last year, a striking new mural by Anishinaabe artist Blake Angeconeb was unveiled on a towering wall in the Brodie Centre atrium on the Bannatyne campus.

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Portrait of Dr. Dieter Schönwetter standing in a dental clinic.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

People Person

June 15, 2023 — 
What Dieter Schönwetter [BA/87, MA/89, PhD/96] enjoys most about research isn’t collecting data or analyzing findings. It’s connecting with people.

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Indigenous

UM celebrates National Indigenous Peoples Day

June 13, 2023 — 
The University of Manitoba is pleased to recognize National Indigenous Peoples Day on our campuses. Here is how you can celebrate this important day as a part of the UM community.

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Dr. Yvonne Myal sits in front of a microscope in her lab.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Breast Cancer Quest

June 12, 2023 — 
For a quarter-century, Dr. Yvonne Myal's lab has worked to pinpoint and isolate biomarkers that are specific to breast cancer and to understand their role in the progression and metastasis of the disease.

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Winter Traverse poses with her College of Nursing pin inside the Pinnacle Club.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Resilient nurses graduate, join profession

June 8, 2023 — 
When Dr. Peter Nickerson, vice-provost (health sciences) and dean of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, addressed the College of Nursing’s Spring Class of 2023, he noted they were a unique group who began their journey at a historic time.

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Research and International

Café Scientifique Spring 2023 Season concludes

June 7, 2023 — 
Presentations featuring 24 UM researchers available for online viewing.

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Headshot of Valerie Wiebe.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

A Calling to Care

June 7, 2023 — 
When Valerie Wiebe [BN/93, MN/99] became the first female president and chief operating officer of Concordia Hospital in 2015, she didn’t know the facility would soon be affected by a complete overhaul of Manitoba’s health-care system.

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Profile of Christine Leong sitting in a chair.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Digging into Data

June 2, 2023 — 
Since working as a research assistant during her undergraduate studies, Dr. Christine Leong [B.Sc./06, B.Sc.Pharm/10], now associate professor in the College of Pharmacy, has been drawn to data.

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Portrait of André Picard, standing at a podium.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Family medicine holds key to healing health-care system, journalist tells UM gala audience

May 31, 2023 — 
André Picard looks back on Manitoba medicine, expresses hope for the future.

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Evelyn L Forget, 2022 Dr. John M. Bowman Rh Institute Award honouree

Research and International

UM researchers recognized with Rh Awards

May 31, 2023 — 
Eight UM faculty members will receive Rh Awards, recognizing excellence in research, scholarly work and creative activities.

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