The 23rd annual Traditional Graduation Powwow for Indigenous students will be held on Saturday, May 5. The ceremony will take place in the Investors Group Athletic Centre on the Fort Garry Campus.
The Powwow honours and commemorates the academic achievement of Aboriginal post-secondary students from the University of Manitoba. This year, approximately 180 First Nations, Metis […]

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The Business and Economic Inequality Forum (BEIF), a group of University of Manitoba scholars and local business owners, is focused on understanding the role of business in societal economic inequality.
To that end, they will host a lecture by Costas Panayotakis, an Associate Professor of Sociology at the New York City College of Technology of the […]

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On Monday, April 30, the University of Manitoba will open a new state-of-the-art Laboratory for Surgical Modeling, Simulation & Robotics.
The Lab was established through $220,000 funding from the Dean of Medicine’s Strategic Research Fund in 2010 to meet the ongoing and increasing need to integrate technology into clinical practice and education, with a mission to […]

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A new multi-million dollar maternal, newborn and child health program developed by the Centre for Global Public Health (CGPH) in the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Medicine will be announced tomorrow at the Bannatyne Campus.
This project, funded by the Canadian International Development Agency, the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, and the University of Manitoba, will bring together […]

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Earth Day falls on Sunday, April 22, and the University of Manitoba has so many researchers who can speak about their innovative research  programs aimed at helping Mother Earth and humanity get along that we here at the U of M Newsroom decided to issue yet another expert advisory.
Soil Scientist David Lobb – water and […]

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Earth Day falls on Sunday, April 22, and University of Manitoba professors are available to speak to media about Earth Day and the environment.
The U of M has gained international recognition for innovative research programs aimed at protecting our planet and its resources. From alternative energy research, to improving the efficiencies of power grids […]

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A visual representation of how the world eats will be taking place tonight in the form of a unique dining experience at the University of Manitoba’s Bannatyne Campus.
Organized by students in the Faculty of Medicine, the Rich Man Poor Man dinner emphasizes global inequalities of food consumption. At every table of eight, one person is […]

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