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Dr. Flordeliz Gigi Osler (left), and PhD student Taylor Morriseau are receiving the honour from Women’s Executive Network

Two researchers named as Canada’s most powerful women

November 20, 2019 — 
Dr. Flordeliz Gigi Osler, an assistant professor in the department of Otolaryngology, and PhD student and Vanier Scholar Taylor Morriseau receive the honour

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Lindy Norris with Richard Cloutier

Alumni

Tell the world about our alumni

November 19, 2019 — 
Nominations open for the 2020 Distinguished Alumni Awards

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Gedi Sibony’s 'The King and the Corpse 2018.' Portable porcelain-steel façade, steel, bolts, screws, wood, c-clamps. Image courtesty of the artist and Green Naftali.

Dialogues in Art

November 19, 2019 — 
Internationally acclaimed artist Gedi Sibony will share his experiences with students and the public

The Engineering class of 1959 celebrated its 60th reunion in September.

Alumni

A legacy 60 years in the making

November 15, 2019 — 
When Don Whitmore and Ken Bailey graduated from the Faculty of Engineering in 1959, they could scarcely imagine how much the campus would change in six decades – or that their philanthropy would play a role

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Strikers try to overturn a streetcar in 1919 in the Winnipeg General Strike in front of the old city hall building on Main Street. // L.B. Foote collection/Archives of Manitoba

Faculty of Law

Manitoba Law School co-founder ‘A labour jurist ahead of his time’

November 12, 2019 — 
One hundred years ago, H.A. Robson tabled the 1919 General Strike Royal Commission Report, making recommendations to improve conditions for workers

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Grain bin silos image from Pixabay.

UM approach nets growth in working with industry

November 7, 2019 — 
The 2019 Research Info$ource rankings are out and UM is celebrating a 63 per cent increase in corporate research income growth, a marker for the success of a research-industry collaborative approach

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Cassie Phaneuf (left) and Kristi Perrin (right)

Asper School of Business

Asper co-op program makes students shine

November 6, 2019 — 
The Asper Co-op Program helps connect interested students with a job in a field they are studying

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The beach at Normandy on D-Day

In Remembrance: University of Manitoba alumni at Normandy

November 6, 2019 — 
We join in the commemoration of the noble and selfless actions of 150,000 Allied troops who landed at Normandy seventy five years ago, turning the tide of the Second World War

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Cows standing and lying down in a pasture.

Are beef burgers bad for the environment?

November 5, 2019 — 
Cattle help and hinder in complex ways

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The sketch drawn by Stefan Michalak of the UFO that he encountered near Falcon Lake in 1967

Libraries

The Falcon Lake UFO Files

October 31, 2019 — 
On May 20, 1967, something happened in the wilderness around Falcon Lake, Manitoba, that has never been adequately explained

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