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13 unusual facts about University of Manitoba


Abe Kovnats

The son of Michael Kovntas, he was educated at the University of Manitoba.

Canadian Penning Trap Mass Spectrometer

It was developed and operated by physicist Guy Savard and a collaboration of other scientists at Argonne, the University of Manitoba, McGill University, Texas A&M University and the State University of New York.

Costume Museum of Canada

The Costume Museum absorbed 2,000 artifacts of clothing and textiles from the University of Manitoba that was displayed at the Clothing and Textiles Hallway Museum.

Derrick Gardner

As of July 2011, Gardner is associate professor of trumpet in the University of Manitoba's Jazz Studies program.

Edward Anthony Wharton Gill

He then returned to teaching and became a professor of theology at St. John's College, University of Manitoba.

Esplanade Riel

The original drawing, stamped by Colin Douglas Stewart, rests in the Engineering building of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.

Heather Stefanson

Stefanson was an investment advisor for Wellington West Capital from 1995 to 2000, and has also been a member of the University of Manitoba's Young Associates organization.

Karen Smith

Karen E. Smith, professor at University of Manitoba, digital literacy research, children's book author

Michelle Sawatzky-Koop

She is also an accomplished pianist, having graduated from the University of Manitoba School of Music in 1993, with a Bachelor of Music Piano Performance.

Nolan Thiessen

After playing baseball in Texas, Thiessen returned to Manitoba and finished his education at the University of Manitoba.

Norman Criddle

Criddle was awarded an honorary diploma from the Manitoba Agricultural College, was Honorary President of the Natural History Society of Manitoba from 1925 to 1933, and a member of the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame.

Volodymyr Antonovych

Volodymyr Antonovych is the father of the former Ukrainian minister Dmytro Antonovych and the grandfather of Maryna Rudnytska, the Canadian professor in the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

In 1968, on sabbatical from the Near Eastern and Judaic studies department of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, he joined a group of other Jews in founding a havurah (small cooperative congregation) in Somerville, Massachusetts, called Havurat Shalom.


Conservatives without Conscience

The book makes extensive use of the research into right-wing authoritarianism of University of Manitoba Professor Bob Altemeyer.

CUPE 3902

CUEW eventually organized contract faculty at Trent University (3908), TAs and student instructors at the University of Manitoba (3909), contract faculty at the University of Ottawa (which disaffiliated in 1992), and contract faculty at Athabasca University (3911).

David Butler-Jones

He is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba as well as a Clinical Professor with the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan's College of Medicine.

David Shane Gunderson

David Shane Gunderson (nicknamed triangle) is a Canadian mathematician who works as an associate professor at the University of Manitoba.

Fernando de Toro

Fernando de Toro is a Full Professor in the Department of English, Film and Theatre at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

Frankhawthorneite

Frankhawthorneite Cu2Te6+O4(OH)2 is a monoclinic copper tellurate mineral named after Prof. Frank Christopher Hawthorne (born 1946), University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

Garth Von Buchholz

He received his undergraduate arts degree at the University of Winnipeg in 1994 and started his graduate studies in English Literature at the University of Manitoba in 1995.

Jack Murta

Born in Carman, Manitoba, the son of John James Murta and Jean (Burnett) Murta, he graduated from the Diploma course in Agriculture at the University of Manitoba in 1964.

Jacob Walter Erb

He was born near Lang, Saskatchewan, the son of Ferdinand Erb and Rosa Wagner, and was educated at Luther College in Regina, at the University of Manitoba and the Chicago Conservatory of Music.

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

From there, he went to teach Modern Christianity (history, sociology, philosophy, and theology) in the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, Canada, rising to the rank of Professor in 1997 and receiving the university's top awards for research and for outreach to the community (via his newspaper column and other media appearances).

MOOEC

CCK08, which was led by George Siemens of Athabasca University and Stephen Downes of the National Research Council, consisted of 25 tuition-paying students in Extended Education at the University of Manitoba, as well as over 2200 online students from the general public who paid nothing.

New Democratic Party of Manitoba candidates, 1969 Manitoba provincial election

William Thomas Loftus (June 21, 1916–August 6, 2008) was raised and educated in the Norwood area of Winnipeg, and attended the University of Manitoba.

New Democratic Party of Manitoba candidates, 1999 Manitoba provincial election

Taylor is a graduate of the Labour College of Canada at the University of Ottawa, and has completed a three-year labour certificate program from the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg Free Press, 23 May 1997).

New Democratic Party of Manitoba candidates, 2003 Manitoba provincial election

McDonald has a Bachelor of Arts degree in early years' education (1991), a Master of Arts degree in curriculum development (1994) and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in education from the University of Manitoba (2003).

Pan Shiji

In America she studied composition with Robert Turner at the University of Manitoba from 1976–80 and with Chou Wen-chung at Columbia University, New York, from 1980–88, and worked at the Columbia Center for Ethnomusicology.

Rey Pagtakhan

He completed his pediatric residency and cardiology fellowship at the Washington University Medical Center/St. Louis Children's Hospital and his Master of Science from the University of Manitoba and respirology fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Winnipeg.

Robert Erie Nay

He was born in Huron County, Ontario, the son of J.J. Nay, and was educated in Minga, Manitoba and at Manitoba University.

Robert Sterritt Leslie

He was born in St. Marys, Ontario, the son of John Leslie and Mary Standish, and was educated at St. Mary's College and the University of Manitoba.

Sidney Spivak

Spivak was born to Jewish parents, Malick and Rose Spivak, in Winnipeg, and was educated at the University of Manitoba and Harvard University.

TRIUMF

The member universities consist of the University of Alberta, the University of British Columbia, Carleton University, University of Guelph, University of Manitoba, Université de Montréal, Simon Fraser University, Queen's University, University of Toronto, University of Victoria, and York University.

William Sweet

He also studied at Carleton University, the University of Manitoba, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the Centre Sèvres, (Faculté de Théologie de la Compagnie de Jésus, Paris).