UM Today Archives

February 26, 2024 —  The Endowment Fund Committee of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences is once again seeking proposals from students, alumni, academics and support staff of the Faculty for special projects requiring funding.  

February 26, 2024 —  Applications are now open for the sixth cohort of the President’s Student Leadership Program (PSLP), Manitoba’s premier post-secondary leadership development opportunity, funded through a fellowship for selected students and housed at the Asper School of Business.

February 26, 2024 —  Balancing academics and athletics can be quite a feat, but Yinka Odeleye, a computer science student, appears to have mastered it as he finishes his first year as a Bison athlete.   

February 26, 2024 —  Feeling anxious about what the future holds is thankfully a normal part of life. When I felt anxious about my degree trajectory, I made sure to connect with an Academic Advisor to see if I was on-track (thank you UM Achieve for spelling it all out for me!).

February 26, 2024 —  The Distinguished Visitors Lecture Series committee members invite the University of Manitoba academic community to a lecture on “Images of Reach, Range, and Recognition: On Emotions in the Study of Law” to be given by Assistant Professor Emily Kidd White, Osgoode Hall Law School on Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. in room 207 at Robson Hall.

February 26, 2024 —  “Anything is possible if you really believe and you work hard,” The Honourable Michelle O’Bonsawin, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada told a room full of law students and professors On February 6 when she visited Robson Hall. She spent quality time answering questions and sharing lived experiences with the Faculty of Law community.

February 23, 2024 —  The Western Producer: More ag investment urged

February 23, 2024 —  My father, the late professor Lawrence Fitzroy Douglas, accepted a position in the department of sociology at the University of Manitoba in 1967. He was the first Black faculty member in the department and one of its four founding members.

February 22, 2024 —  Without realizing it, Kazadi says he began to enjoy studying the sport's technical side and analyzing the pros, and it started to shape who he is and how he engages with the world around him.

February 22, 2024 —  A BComm student, Darbara Kaushal’s Asper story so far is defined by connection. He has been involved in Asper case competitions and the University of Manitoba Actuarial Club (UMAC) since he started his BComm in 2022, right as UM students were returning to in-person learning full-time for the first time since 2020.