Transforming the Learning Experience News Archive
Innovative research is at the core of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Symposium
June 26, 2023 —
Energized by the opening keynote speaker, this year’s Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Symposium celebrated the breadth of teaching and learning studies of recent grant recipients and highlighted SoTL research that responds to current teaching and learning challenges.
Price Faculty of Engineering
Civil engineering student project wins first place at national competition
June 23, 2023 —
A team of undergraduate civil engineering students placed first in the 2023 National Student Capstone Design Competition with their project aimed to improve active transportation networks in Winnipeg.
CBC Manitoba: Michelle Carriere on making math fun by using beadwork
June 21, 2023 —
Michelle Carriere, Indigenous recruitment and outreach officer, ENGAP, and Kid-Netic Energy program, spoke with Marcy Markusa on CBC Manitoba about how to make math fun through beadwork. She talks about the reactions of students and how the idea came about.
Faculty of Arts
Love of political studies turns into MLA internship
June 5, 2023 —
Back in high school, El-Shaddai Nyakiir, knew she wanted to attend university but was unsure of what to study. After taking a variety of first year courses, the political studies program from the Faculty of Arts rose to the top of her list. In spring 2023, El-Shaddai will graduate with a bachelor of arts advanced degree in political studies with a minor in philosophy.
Faculty of Arts
Military experience leads to graduate degree in political studies
June 5, 2023 —
In 2017, Christopher Hunt was living in Brandon, serving several short-term contracts in the Army Reserve and conducting contracted research for Royal Military College when he found himself deployed to Ukraine. This spring, he is graduating with a Master of Arts in Political Studies – a program that has afforded Chris many outstanding opportunities and has allowed him to meet some amazing students, academics and professionals in the field.
Desautels Faculty of Music
Innovative one-year program to give musicians industry skills for success
May 25, 2023 —
The Micro-Certificate in Songmaking is designed to teach musicians of popular genres the tools needed to write, record, produce, and promote their music
Libraries
Research data management strategy at UM
May 19, 2023 —
Research data management strategy at UM
Desautels Faculty of Music
Conducting research about what is conducted
May 1, 2023 —
Ikjyot Bharaj is shining a light on representation in music repertoire
Eight UM courses that’ll get you hands-on with climate change and make you a better Earth citizen
April 19, 2023 —
So you want to be a better Earth citizen. Good. We have a course for that. Lots of them, really.
Alumni
Meet the ’20 and ’21 grads (again) – Braden Ganetsky
March 7, 2023 —
Find out what Braden Ganetsky [BSc(ME)/21] is up to post-graduation.