U2011 wants you to vote
U of M political science professors Jared Wesley and Andrea Rounce, along with a group of student volunteers, are taking action to promote knowledge and…
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August local briefs
Proactive anti-gang strategy announced On Aug. 3 federal Public Safety Minister, Vic Towes, announced $928,000 in federal funds, which will go toward helping keep at-risk…
Professor recognized for LGBT activison
University of Manitoba law professor, Karen Busby, was inducted into the Canadian LGBT Human Rights Hall of Fame (Q Hall of Fame) in Vancouver last…
Zoological investigations
Ah, summer in Winnipeg: muggy heat we can’t stand after eight months of zero humidity and freakishly cold winter, freak storms, flooding, mosquitoes, canker worms,…
Summer battery blowout
There’s been an incredible amount of progress in electrical charge storage over the summer with two huge innovations on a nano-sized scale. Both findings are…
Science opinions
I’m usually a fairly calm and rational person. Really, I am. But when I caught my boyfriend simultaneously hugging me and responding to an e-mail…
U of M introduces co-curricular record
They say that 80 per cent of academic breakthroughs occur outside the classroom, and it appears the University of Manitoba has been listening. Starting this…
U Manitoba launches student app
Need your grades, library books and bus schedules on the go? There’s an app for that. The University of Manitoba’s Web Services department has developed…
Evolution’s spiral
Numbers are pretty amazing things . . . I won’t pretend to know much about them, and I freely admit that I have a restraining…
UMSU announces new pub name
With the construction of the new campus pub at the University of Manitoba about to begin, UMSU has released the new name and logo of…