Who is it that pays the price for our freedom of expression? That was the question of the night at the University of Manitoba’s first annual Visionary Conversation of the 2014-2015 year. The event provided […]
The University of Manitoba Graduate Student’s Association (GSA) held their first roundtable of the 2014-2015 academic year on Sept. 11. Laura Rempel, president of the GSA, moderated the discussion. Over 30 graduates—many of them from […]
The winner of the University of Manitoba Three-Minute Thesis competition (3MT) recently represented her university well at the Western regional competition in Calgary. Andrea Edel, a PhD student studying the positive effects of flaxseed on […]
What else could healthcare providers and educators be doing to decrease preventable chronic illnesses and improve the health of Manitoban patients? That’s the question that Dr. Alan Katz, associate director of the Manitoba Centre for […]
The University of Manitoba is backing down from a plan proposed to raise continuing fees for graduate students after a swift response by the University of Manitoba Graduate Students’ Association (UMGSA) and the provinces’ Minister […]
The past two weeks have been a difficult time at the University of Saskatchewan as controversy flared over the dismissal and subsequent rehiring of a professor. On May 13, Robert Buckingham, then executive director of […]
Students, faculty, and staff gathered in the Brodie Centre atrium on April 15 for an open house presenting the draft of the Bannatyne Campus Master Plan. The plan is meant to set the parameters for […]
Last month U of M distinguished professor Dr. Frank Plummer was named a recipient of the Killiam Prize in Health Sciences, one of the highest honours in Canada. Administered by the Canada Council of the […]
On March 13, the line of over 3,000 people waiting to see Neil deGrasse Tyson’s free public lecture at the U of M’s Investors Group Athletic Centre, wound around the outside of the building, down the street, […]
The Robert B. Schultz Lecture Theatre at St John’s College hosted the U of M’s second annual Three-Minute Thesis competition for graduate students on Feb. 25. Judging the event was Patricia Bovey, chair of the […]