Emily Ashley, a fourth-year student at the University of Manitoba’s Asper School of Business, has been announced as this year’s recipient of the UMSU Student Involvement Award – Governance (the Ed Anderson Award).
The award recognizes students who have shown exemplary skill, initiative, and dedication to student governance at the U of M, and is worth […]

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A long-time practitioner in community oral health has been named the recipient of the 2013 Alumni of Distinction award from the School of Dental Hygiene at the University of Manitoba.
Ms. Pattie Moore of the Class of 1971 has spent a career dedicated to community oral health and public service and, because of these efforts, she […]

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The Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music is pleased to congratulate Wendy Rondeau (BMusic/2004, Post-Bac. Dip./2005, MMusic/2008) on receiving the Canadian Library Association’s 30th Student Library Award.
Wendy’s article titled “Making Use of Existing Tools for Unknown Item Needs: Improving Subject Retrieval in Online Catalogs” focuses on teaching library literacy skills in order to help patrons […]

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The Excellence in Aboriginal Business Leadership Award will be presented on Oct. 4, 2012, at a gala event at the Fairmont Winnipeg.
In May of this year the University of Manitoba and the Asper School of Business announced the winners, Andrew Clarke and Tim Sweeny.
Andrew Clarke, owner of Clarke Financial Planning and Insurance Services, is the […]

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John Eaton, law librarian and associate professor at the E. K. Williams Law Library of the University of Manitoba, has been awarded the 2012 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Law and Political Science Section (LPSS) Marta Lange/CQ Press Award.
The award, established in 1996 by LPSS, honors an academic or law librarian who […]

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Michael Campbell, professor in the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, has won a Skål International “green award” for his work in sustainable gorilla tourism in Uganda.
Campbell took home the trophy for best Educational Program at the tenth annual Skål International Sustainable Development in Tourism Awards recently held in Finland. Founded in […]

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Andrew Woolford, an Associate Professor with the University of Manitoba’s Department of Sociology, has been granted a Fulbright Scholar Award to the University of New Mexico. Dr. Woolford will spend four months, starting in January 2012, researching for a project entitled: “A Tonic for the Boarding School Blues? Genocide and Historical Redress in Canada and […]

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