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Grad student touches lives through free portrait project
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A University of Manitoba graduate student is providing free family portraits for Winnipeg families while simultaneously generating a greater understanding of the immigrant community in Winnipeg.
Women in science at the U of M
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This week is International Women's Week, and to observe the occasion, let's take a look at women in the sciences at the University of Manitoba. In the spirit of helping to encourage women to...
Women in the sciences: Hall of fame
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Women have been contributing to the sciences for a great number of years. Here is a brief list of only a small fraction of the well-known female minds who have bettered our world:
Elizabeth Blackwell:...
U of M gains seat in NSERC
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Digvir Jayas, the University of Manitoba's vice president (research and international) has recently been appointed to the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
"I was thrilled to receive a call about my...
Indians Wear Red
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Indians Wear Red: Colonialism, Resistance and Aboriginal Street Gangs—a Fernwood Publishing book released last August—challenges the reader to look at the problem of Aboriginal street gangs in Winnipeg from a different perspective.
Two of the...
7th annual Growing Local Conference
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Food Matters Manitoba (FMM) hosted its seventh annual Growing Local Conference in downtown Winnipeg last weekend.
The three-day event saw participation from dozens of organizations involved with food issues – including local food shares and...
Globalised Holocaust
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On Feb. 28, Alejandro Baer gave a presentation titled “Globalised Holocaust” at the University of Manitoba.
The presentation examined how a cultural memory can be appropriated into a global phenomenon, and how our use and...
