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Nicole Rosen.

Preserve and predict

February 4, 2019 — 
'Linguistics provides the opportunity to scientifically analyze language and its structure, predicting patterns and changes in language and studying the social implications that result'

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Marcia Nozick: 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient for Professional Achievement.

Alumni News

Marcia Nozick: 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient for Professional Achievement

February 4, 2019 — 
Nozick founded EMBERS, an innovative temporary labour company that has helped thousands of people facing work barriers attain full-time employment

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Indigenous News

A critical lens on legal reconciliation

February 1, 2019 — 
Meet Indigenous scholar Dr. Jeremy Patzer [MA/08]

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Performance Artist Shawna Dempsey

Faculty of Arts News

Working with Wonder

January 29, 2019 — 
Winnipeg-based performance artists, Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan, hippety-hop through grand questions of time, space, science and aesthetics, asking “what is more important than wonder?”. The University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities helps to bring the explorative performance to Winnipeg audiences.

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Catherine "Kiki" Delaney [BA/1969, LLD/2011].

Accomplished U of M grad makes cover of Globe and Mail Report on Business

January 25, 2019 — 
The cover of the February 2019 Globe and Mail Report on Business features U of M grad Kiki Delaney [BA/1969, LLD/2011]

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a robot hand holding a human hand, surrounded by hearts

NY Times: Do you take this robot?

January 22, 2019 — 
Philosophy professor Neil McArthur weighs in on a 'digisexuality', the love of robots

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Duncan Mercredi

Faculty of Arts News

Cree-Métis poet and storyteller latest Writer-In-Residence

January 17, 2019 — 
The Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture welcomes Duncan Mercredi as its Winter 2019 Writer-In-Residence

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George Rubenfeld (centre) with his family in France, 1950. // Photo credit: Belle Jarniewski, Voices of Winnipeg Holocaust Survivors

Alumni News

Life after the Holocaust: Alumni who survived

January 17, 2019 — 
Jan. 27 marked the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Second World War – a day set aside by the United Nations to commemorate the Holocaust

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Coins on a table.

The Conversation: Not every tax break is a smart tax break

January 15, 2019 — 
Whenever government adjusts taxation rules to offer a deduction or credit, economists call this a “tax expenditure” to distinguish it from the direct expenditures authorized by treasury boards

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Students in class

Faculty of Graduate Studies News

New scholarships for history graduate students

January 11, 2019 — 
Considering graduate studies in History? Three new scholarships will soon be available for first year students in the joint Master’s program in history, offered by the University of Manitoba and University of Winnipeg.

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