The University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine will hold a Convocation ceremony for 105 MD graduates tomorrow.
Degrees will be conferred on 105 medical school graduates: 56 females and 49 males, including four Aboriginal students and 26 with rural attributes which include rural roots; rural work experience or rural volunteer experience. Elder Harry Bone will […]

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The University of Manitoba Opera Theatre will be performing a public preview of their new opera in Winnipeg on May 2 before it tours to 20 schools in Southern Manitoba.
The opera, Angela and Her Sisters, was written especially for children, based on an Italian folk tale.  It was a U of M commission with music by […]

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Jane’s Walk is coming to the University of Manitoba on May 4, and on May 5 the U of M hosts the MS Walk.
Jane’s Walk is an international phenomenon that began in 2007. Named after urban activist and writer Jane Jacobs, these annual and free walks held across the globe are organized by volunteers to […]

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Ovide Mercredi [LLB/1977], a lawyer, negotiator, former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, activist, author, poet and artist, has been named the 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient by the University of Manitoba’s Alumni Association. He will be presented with the award at the Homecoming Dinner on September 28, 2013.
“Ovide Mercredi has dedicated his […]

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The University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Medicine has partnered with the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) to launch a pilot workshop in art education, an offshoot of a medical school course centered on medical ethics and humanities.
In small groups, second-year medical students attend one evening session at the downtown gallery. Learning from art educators and physicians, […]

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Image: Little Audrey by Janet Werner
Exhibition shows that grotesque and beautiful can be the same.
Just in time to be bombarded by messages of getting into shape for “bikini season,” the exhibition Perfect Imperfections takes a critical lens and focuses in on the foibles and flaws which make the body vulnerable, fragile and ultimately human. Representing […]

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Nine students from the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture will travel to Ghana on April 29 to take a course called Service Learning in the Global Community (SLGC).
The six-credit-hour course provides opportunities for students to live and work overseas while learning about culture, construction and design.  The University of Manitoba group will return […]

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