The University of Manitoba is hoisting up hoops and throwing open a new outdoor, drop-in basketball program for inner-city youth over the summer at the centrally-located Bannatyne campus.
The free Summer Weekend Inner-City Supervised Hoops (SWISH) program will run every Saturday from 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. from June 30-August 11, 2012, in Parking Lot E […]

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Hundreds of children at close to 20 inner-city schools in Winnipeg will continue to receive proper and thorough oral health care thanks to Variety, the Children’s Charity of Manitoba, in conjunction with the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Manitoba.
On December 2, the Manitoba charity confirmed the renewal of their sponsorship of the Variety […]

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A major funding announcement involving a children’s charity and the University of Manitoba will occur tomorrow, December 2, at 10 am.
The event will highlight Variety, the Children’s Charity of Manitoba’s renewed funding commitment to the Variety Children’s Dental Outreach Program at the Faculty of Dentistry on the University of Manitoba’s Bannatyne Campus.
Made possible through the […]

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University of Manitoba president and vice-chancellor David Barnard and His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, celebrated inner city success stories today.
The Celebrating Inner-City Community Connections event showcased highlights of the University of Manitoba Connecting to Kids report. This report demonstrated that world-class scholars, researchers and staff are joining with community […]

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University of Manitoba President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. David Barnard, joined by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, will attend a celebration on Winnipeg’s inner city success stories.
The Celebrating Inner-City Community Connection event will include highlights of the University of Manitoba’s Connecting to Kids report written by the Faculties of Medicine, […]

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Strong community support combined with the vision and creativity of Steve Kirby, the director of Jazz Studies at the University of Manitoba, has enabled the Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music to dramatically extend the reach and power of a program Kirby has been dedicated to for eight years.
The Bridge: Music Learning for Life is […]

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Science will come to life for more than 150 Aboriginal, new Canadian and inner-city students participating in the fifth annual Biomedical Youth Camp–this year in their own backyard.
The free, week-long event, staged by the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine, is aimed at under-represented populations in the inner city, who would not normally have the […]

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