Stories celebrating UWinnipeg's Indigenous community.
With Pow Wow cancelled and The University of Winnipeg’s Spring Convocation ceremonies postponed until the fall, UWinnipeg's Aboriginal Student Services Centre (ASSC) spent June 24-26 mailing and hand-delivering gifts to graduating students and celebrate their achievements.
The University of Winnipeg is proud to bestow upon Lorraine Coutu-Lavallee, June Bruce, and Agathe Chartrand each an Honorary Doctor of Letters. The trio was honoured at a Special Convocation during a Graduation Acknowledgement Ceremony hosted virtually by the Manitoba Metis Federation.
The English and Cree cookbook that began as part of an Indigenous Studies field placement in Fisher River Cree Nation in 2012, has received international recognition as a Gourmand 2020 Spring Harvest Award Winner.
For the second summer in a row, Indigenous students studying science at The University of Winnipeg are able to gain research experience and build a network with other Indigenous students, thanks to the Pathways to Graduate Studies (P2GS) program funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
When COVID-19 began turning her world upside down, the first thing UWinnipeg historian, Dr. Mary Jane McCallum did was look back at her own family’s history of diseases. “I had to find a personal connection to what was happening, to look to the past – because I just didn’t know what to do,” she said.
The University of Winnipeg has received funding from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) to support Kishaadigeh, an Indigenous-led health research project developed by and with Indigenous communities and organizations to empower health research initiatives that reflect their priorities.
Celebrate the academic achievements of the graduating First Nation, Métis, and Inuit students during The University of Winnipeg's 18th annual Spring Pow Wow on Saturday, March 21.
The Pathway to Graduate Studies program is returning in 2020 to offer research opportunities for Indigenous students in science, technology, engineering, and math at UWinnipeg.
More than 60 Métis UWinnipeg students were awarded the Louis Riel Bursary in the Fall Term of this academic year. Meet a few of the recipients!
Indigenous studies and history student, Elmer Gilbert Clarke spent his summer poring over books in UWinnipeg's library, searching through texts for Ojibwa, Cree and Michif, as part of UWinnipeg's Indigenous Summer Scholars program.
