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You're invited to Stephen Lewis Speaks - March 28 & 29
by all-students＠lists.umanitoba.ca 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

distinguished visiting lecturer stephen lewis. Hear one of the world's most influential speakers on human rights, social justice and international development in a series of free lectures. Open to the public. Wednesday, March 28 GLOBAL ISSUES, LOCAL IMPACT 6 pm-8 pm, doors open at 5 pm university centre 2nd FLOOR multi-purpose room. thursday, March 29 GLOBAL HEALTH 12 pm-1 pm bannatyne campus- basic medical sciences building. Frederic gaspard theatre a. Sponsored by Alumni Association Inc. of the University of Manitoba President's Office Distinguished Visiting Lecturer Fund Graduate Students' Association University of Manitoba Students' Association Community Health Sciences Student Affairs Teknion. Presented by Student Life For further information: umanitoba.ca/student/leader

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UM Student Health 101 - March Issue
by all-students＠lists.umanitoba.ca 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

<http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Description: ?March U of M students, March's <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Student Health 101 is now ready! So why should you read <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Student Health 101? First, you can enter to win $1,000 for reading U of M's health and wellness magazine, online at <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html. Plus, there are some great articles in <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> March's issue: <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Description: March 2012 U of M Health 101 <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Description: March 2012 U of M Health 101 <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Description: March 2012 U of M Health 101 <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Cooking with Superfoods Get ways to incorporate great-tasting, nutrient-packed foods into your eating plan. <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Thinking of Getting Inked? Find out why some students get tattoos, and their tips if you're thinking about ink. <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Job Hunting 101 How you can get the jump on your employment search, with steps you can take today. <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Avoid Getting Stressed Out Steps you can take today to deal with the challenges in your life. <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Special Report: Are You Too Plugged In? <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> UCookbook: Healthy Breakfasts & <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> FitnessU: Building Your Stamina <http://www.facebook.com/pages/U-of-M-Student-Health-101/163129317107687> Description: U of M Health 101 on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/U-of-M-Student-Health-101/163129317107687> Don't miss out! Like us on Facebook for the latest on U of M health and wellness. <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Read U of M Student Health 101 today - and be sure to enter to win $1,000! Thanks for your time, Marcia Davies Assistant to the Vice-Provost (Students) Student Affairs, University of Manitoba <mailto:marci_davies@umanitoba.ca> marci_davies(a)umanitoba.ca <http://www.umanitoba.ca/student> http://www.umanitoba.ca/student

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Nominate an outstanding professor!
by all-students＠lists.umanitoba.ca 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

Dear Students: Do you know an outstanding professor or instructor who deserves recognition for their teaching skills? If so, you may be interested in nominating someone you consider to be an exceptional faculty member for the Saunderson & Stanton Excellence in Teaching Awards. Nominations are accepted all year for these annual awards provided by the Dr. and Mrs. H.H. Saunderson Award fund and from the bequest of Mrs. Olive Beatrice Stanton. Each award is currently valued at $2,000. This year's deadline has been extended to March 5th.so you still have time! This is the 46th year that nominations have been invited for the Stanton Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the 43rd year for the Dr. and Mrs. H.H. Saunderson Award for Excellence in Teaching. Instructors may be nominated in any year but those who have received either the Saunderson or the Stanton awards in the previous 10 years are not eligible for selection. Please note: all students, both continuing and graduating, can nominate an outstanding teacher. You can only nominate one professor per year. Note the nomination deadlines listed on the nomination form below. If you are a registered student, an upcoming or recent graduate, or a colleague of an outstanding teacher and wish to make a nomination, submit the online nomination form <http://myuminfo.umanitoba.ca/index.asp?sec=87&too=600&eve=29&fid=949> or print the nomination form (pdf) <http://umanitoba.ca/student/fin_awards/media/ss_awards_excellence_applicati on.pdf> and mail or fax it to: Saunderson & Stanton Awards Committee Financial Aid & Awards 422 University Centre The University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2 fax (204) 474-7543 If you have any questions, please contact Financial Aid and Awards at 474-8197 or via email at awards(a)umanitoba.ca Student Affairs...Creating Opportunities for Student Success

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Wondering what to do after grad? Check out Learning to Earning, March 5-8
by all-students＠lists.umanitoba.ca 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Enter to win $1,000 tuition at Learning to Earning. March 5-8, 2012.. Career Services.. 474 University Centre.. Sessions start at 10 a.m. daily.. Attend a session for your chance to win two tickets to the Winnipeg Jets, March 14.. Join us for a Kickoff Breakfast on March 5th - 10am to 12pm. First floor, University Centre. Explore your career, DEFINE YOUR FUTURE. Open to all students. Learning to Earning is a series of sessions designed to help you prepare for life after graduation. Sessions include: What can I do with my degree? What is graduate school? Is it for me and do I want it or need it? Resumes that get attention How to impress: Interview, dressing, dining, social media and more! Luck isn't everything: Creating your own career opportunities How to stand out Presented by Career Services, Alumni Association, Office of Student Life and UMSU. For more info: umanitoba.ca/student/careerservices.

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Event Day Plan Open House - February 29, 2012
by all-students＠lists.umanitoba.ca 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

The following message is being sent on behalf of Deborah McCallum, Vice-President (Administration): To: Students, Faculty and Staff: From: Deborah McCallum, Vice-President (Administration) Date: February 22, 2012 Re: Event Day Plan Open House - February 29, 2012 As the Investors Group Field takes shape on our campus, we are excited by the opportunities the new, world-class stadium will bring to our university community. The new stadium brings with it a number of significant benefits to University of Manitoba staff, students and surrounding community residents. Our new Active Living Centre, two lighted artificial turf soccer fields and the football field to be shared by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the Bisons and the community, combined will mean the University of Manitoba will be home to some of the best sports and recreation facilities in the country. While these facilities provide great benefits to students, faculty, staff and the City of Winnipeg, we also recognize our responsibility to ensure game and event days are positive experiences and involve minimal disruption to our community members. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the Canadian Football League were mindful of the need for that balance when they developed the schedule for the upcoming season. In total, there are nine home games slated for 2012. Of those, four are weekend games scheduled on Saturday or Sunday. Of five weekday games, four are scheduled during July and August when there are fewer students, faculty and staff members on campus. Weekday games will also start at 7 p.m. or later to ensure efficient traffic and transit access to the Fort Garry Campus. To minimize any negative impact on our university community, we are working closely with the Winnipeg Football Club and the City of Winnipeg to draft a comprehensive event day plan. This plan outlines access to campus during events, transit opportunities, parking options and a variety of other elements which we believe will make the event day experience a positive one for all. The University of Manitoba is hosting an Open House to present details of the plan and to solicit feedback on its contents from our community. The President and I encourage you all to attend. The Open House will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 29 from 12:30-4:00 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose Room, 2nd Floor University Centre. Facilitators will be available at the open house to discuss the plan and address any concerns or questions. In addition, a new website will be launched on Feb. 29 that will provide on-going updates and further information. The City of Winnipeg is also hosting an Open House for area residents to obtain information on the plan on February 29 from 4 to 8:30 pm in the library at Dalhousie School, 262 Dalhousie Drive, Winnipeg. Interested area residents are also invited to attend that event. A second City of Winnipeg Open House will be held at the Canad Inn Fort Garry on Saturday, March 3 from 10 to 3 pm. Additional open house events will be hosted at a variety of locations around the city in the coming weeks and months. We believe Investors Group Field at the University of Manitoba will become a focal point for the positive transformational change in the spaces where we live, work, study, discover and play. Together, we can ensure a seamless transition into this positive new era for sports and recreation in our city and province.

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UM Student Employment: Mini U 2012 Instructor
by all-students＠lists.umanitoba.ca 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Hello! Are you a current University student who is looking for the best summer job ever? Bison Children's Programs is currently accepting applications for Mini U Instructors. Apply now to join our team and develop your leadership skills, make great friends, be part of a team, and best of all be a kid all summer long with fun games and activities. Interested applicants must complete our Instructor application form which can be downloaded from our website ( <http://www.miniu.ca> www.miniu.ca) or found at either of our customer service desks in the Frank Kennedy Centre and Max Bell arena. Applications must be submitted to the Frank Kennedy Centre, Customer Service Desk by Friday, March 2, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. Please feel free to contact Kate Amey for any questions related to these positions. Her contact information is found below. Good luck to all of the applicants! Kate Amey Special Interest Program Coordinator Bison Children's Programs University of Manitoba Ph: (204) 474-8631 Fax: (204) 474-7503 <http://www.miniu.ca> www.miniu.ca

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Pedestrian Bridge Interactive Public Display Session
by all-students＠lists.umanitoba.ca 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

This e-memo is sent on behalf of Deborah McCallum, Vice-President (Administration): On February 8th and 9th, MMM Group Limited and the City of Winnipeg will be hosting Public Interactive Display Sessions (PIDS) for a conceptual design study of a river crossing from St. Vital to Fort Garry near the University of Manitoba. The PIDS will provide community members an opportunity to discuss the project. The goal of the PIDS is to help identify design options and locations for a pedestrian and cycle crossing over the Red River. Please see the attached flyer for more information. Deborah J. McCallum Vice-President (Administration)

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UM Student Health 101 - February Issue
by all-students＠lists.umanitoba.ca 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

<http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Description: http://read101.ca/imgload/UMANCA.jpg U of M students, February's <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Student Health 101 is now ready! So why should you read <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Student Health 101? First, you can enter to win $1,000 for reading U of M's health and wellness magazine, online at <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html. Plus, there are some great articles in <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> February's issue: <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Description: alt <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Description: alt <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Description: alt <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> How Healthy Are Your Relationships? Review these 7 critical elements for healthy relationships + take the relationships quiz. <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Top Fitness Apps We review some popular fitness and nutrition apps and how students are using them. <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> What to Do If Your Grades Are Slipping Great tips from professors for confronting the problem and getting back on track. <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Striving for A's? Start By Getting Some Zzz's How improving your sleep habits can lead to better grades, better health, and more. <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> UCookbook: Vegetarian Meals & <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> FitnessU: Strengthening Your Core <http://www.facebook.com/pages/U-of-M-Student-Health-101/163129317107687> Description: alt <http://www.facebook.com/pages/U-of-M-Student-Health-101/163129317107687> Don't miss out! Like us on Facebook for the latest on U of M health and wellness. <http://read101.ca/umanitoba.html> Read U of M Student Health 101 today - and be sure to enter to win $1,000! Thanks for your time, Marcia Davies Assistant to the Vice-Provost (Students) Student Affairs, University of Manitoba <mailto:marci_davies@umanitoba.ca> marci_davies(a)umanitoba.ca <http://www.umanitoba.ca/student> http://www.umanitoba.ca/student

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DEFINE YOURSELF TO WIN AN AMAZING ADVENTURE - ONLY 1 MONTH LEFT TO ENTER!
by all-students＠lists.umanitoba.ca 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

There is less than one month left to enter the U of M's Define Your Future contest for your chance to win! The grand prize winner will get to choose from one of these fabulous adventures. You could: . Travel Canada's Arctic waters aboard the CCGS Amundsen . Explore global public health projects in India . Meet and travel with visionary human rights leaders in Ottawa or New York Just complete a short video (1 minute or less) defining who you are and you could win this or other amazing prizes including: . An on-set film experience with Guy Maddin . A tour of the new Blue Bombers stadium and tickets to the 2012 season opener . A student-experience prize package, complete with an iPad, BookStore gift card, declining balance food card and 1-year gym membership For full contest details and to see other great video entries visit: <http://defineyourfuture.ca/webmailer> http://defineyourfuture.ca/webmailer. Not sure how to enter? Check out our step-by-step video that shows you how: <http://youtu.be/KGGIUCCdnGw> http://youtu.be/KGGIUCCdnGw If you have any questions leave them on our Facebook wall and we'll get back to you. Good luck!

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Message from David T. Barnard, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Manitoba
by all-students＠lists.umanitoba.ca 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Dear Students, For almost 135 years, the University of Manitoba has been shaping academic, business and community leaders, enhancing our community and conducting research that changes the world. Throughout our history, we have grown and evolved through a constant process of rethinking, re-evaluating and reassessing where we are, where we want to be and how we'll get there. Many members of the University of Manitoba community have heard me refer to the complex academic structure that exists here. Currently, we have 20 faculties and schools and 78 departments delivering programs to serve over 27,000 students. By comparison, the University of Toronto has the same number of faculties and schools, and only 14 additional departments, to serve 72,000 students. Almost 30,000 students at the University of Calgary are served by 13 faculties and schools encompassing 70 departments. At McMaster University, programs are delivered to its 27,000 students through 6 faculties and 49 departments. In fact, based on available data, no other medical-doctoral institution of our size and scope in Canada has as many free-standing faculties and schools or departments as we do. I believe that this overly elaborated academic structure impedes our academic work in at least three important ways. 1. It affects academic planning and decision making because academic leaders - especially deans and directors - are more removed from these processes than they should be. Put simply, this group is too large to bring together effectively on these and other matters. 2. This structure results in the inefficient use of our most precious resource, namely, our people, who should have the opportunity to use their skills more creatively to advance our learning, discovery and engagement missions. 3. Most importantly, the need to navigate within our highly articulated structure hinders progress on our Strategic Planning Framework priorities, notably, our commitment to providing an outstanding student experience and to enhancing our teaching and research programs in areas of strength and/or strategic importance to our province and nation. Students require more flexible program and course selection, and simpler academic regulations to achieve their educational and career goals; faculty, in turn, require greater opportunities for inter- and multi-disciplinary collaboration to develop and advance their teaching and research programs. I want to begin an important conversation within the University of Manitoba community about how we move forward and enhance our commitment to our students, our faculty and staff, and to the community we serve. It is my vision to see the University of Manitoba's academic structure better reflect our size and scope, enhancing rather than impeding our ability to deliver on our mandate. When the University of Manitoba's Strategic Planning Framework was adopted, I committed to ensuring that it would guide the decisions we make together and that we would use it to pursue our ultimate objective of achieving excellence. Initiatives like ROSE and OARs have been focused on transforming our organizational infrastructure and approaches, in order to improve the way the university conducts its work. It is now time to move forward with a plan to simplify and improve our university's academic structure, so that we can more effectively achieve our strategic vision. Some work designed to address our current academic structure is already underway. Late last year, we began a process where deans and directors of faculties and schools with natural affinities of various sorts began working in clusters to explore some new avenues of collaboration and interaction. Through this process, work on new cross-faculty academic programming, the sharing of administrative resources and facilities, and collaborative outreach activity has already begun. It has shown us that more and closer ties among units can be beneficial - to students, faculty and staff and to our community at large. This cluster mechanism, I believe, can serve as a useful starting point in the development of a plan to simplify and improve our academic structure. To this end, I have asked Dr. Joanne Keselman, Vice President (Academic) and Provost, to work with deans and directors through the cluster groups and they, in turn, with their faculty, staff, students, alumni and external stakeholders, to identify viable options for reducing the number of faculties and schools from the current total of 20 to a number closer to the national average of 13 by 2017. Based on discussions to date, it is clear that there are significant opportunities to improve our academic structure in the health sciences area. The move to interprofessional education and an increasing emphasis on multi-disciplinary research teams, combined with the need to address common issues including clinical education and program accreditation, provide compelling reasons to proceed with this cluster as a first step in the development of a plan. To this end, Dr. Keselman will work with the health sciences cluster to develop a proposal or set of options by December 2012 for consideration by our governing bodies. An interim report on this work will be provided in the spring of 2012. It is clear that other opportunities exist to improve our academic structure. I encourage faculties or departments that see possibilities where closer relationships among themselves would be beneficial to bring their ideas forward for discussion. We remain committed, as the only medical-doctoral institution in Manitoba, to contributing to our communities' and our province's cultural, social and economic well-being. This process will enhance our ability to meet the needs of our students, our faculty and our community as a whole. We want this change to be invigorating and exciting. We want it to be inclusive, and will engage the University of Manitoba in discussions about how this goal will be achieved. Finally, we will only move forward where it makes sense, and proposals will be advanced, discussed, improved and approved through the University of Manitoba's collegial governance processes. This institution will soon be 135 years old. We respect and honour our traditions but must adapt them to ensure a vibrant and prosperous future for the much loved University of Manitoba, its staff and students and the community it serves. David David T. Barnard, Ph.D., President and Vice-Chancellor 202 Administration Building, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB R3T 2N2 Canada Office: +1-204-474-9345 FAX: +1-204-261-1318 Email: president(a)umanitoba.ca cid:image002.jpg@01CAEBD7.78870110

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