Campus
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the best information for academic papers
At the University of Winnipeg (U of W), Ready Set Go workshops help teach students the skills to find academic sources.
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What’s for lunch?
The University of Winnipeg (U of W) has a lot of options for food both on and around campus.
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Hearing women’s voices
Women still face harassment vocally and sexually every day. In 2014, 553,000 cases of sexual assault were self-reported by people identifying as female in a survey done by Statistics Canada.
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PROFile: Jason Hannan
Dr. Jason Hannon started teaching in the Rhetoric, Writing and Communications department at the University of Winnipeg (U of W) in 2013.
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Studying tunes
Students are often trying to find the best way to study all of the time, and some students use music as their go-to studying aid. Finding the best tunes can be hard, especially at high-stress times like midterms week.
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PROFile: Shelagh Carter
Before becoming a professor, Shelagh Carter studied in New York and Los Angeles as an actress and graduated from the Canadian Film Centre’s Directors Lab in Toronto.
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For the love of radio
Campus radio gives students the opportunity to strengthen their own communication skills and have a boost of confidence overall.
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What does diversity on campus mean?
According to the Canadian immigration website, “diversity in Canada extends beyond race and ethnicity but spans language, gender, religious affiliations, sexual orientation, abilities and economic status.”
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PROFile: Pauline Ripat
Professor Pauline Ripat has a long history at the University of Winnipeg. She did her undergraduate degree at the university, and then came back to teach as a sessional in 2001, which turned into a permanent position teaching in the classics department.
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The hunt for parking on campus
Parking near the University of Winnipeg (U of W) - and almost anywhere else downtown - can be a challenge.
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PROFile: Ryan Bullock
Ryan Bullock, the Canada research Chair in human-environment interactions at the University of Winnipeg, started his career path later in life.
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Revisiting safety on campus
Students all around campus may see more security personnel patrolling the buildings on the University of Winnipeg (U of W) campus.
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Mindful education
Researchers have found that, often, mindful meditation is a solution to a fast-paced tech world that people are now living in.
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PROFile: James Currie
James Currie has been with the University of Winnipeg since 1988, when he was 26. He started his career as an assistant professor in mathematics and statistics, and his area of research is in combinatorics of words.
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PROfile: Melanie Gregg
Melanie Gregg is currently the chair of the kinesiology and applied health department at the University of Winnipeg (U of W). She says her main focus of teaching and research is in sports psychology.
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Day care can ease the student parent experience
Juggling studies and the demands of being a parent can be a struggle. On-campus daycare can help parents with pick-ups and drop-offs and access to their children between classes.
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PROFile: Narumi Taniguchi
Professor Narumi Taniguchi has been at the University of Winnipeg (U of W) as the director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program since she moved to Winnipeg in 2015.
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PROFile: Michael MacKinnon
Professor Michael MacKinnon first started his career at the University of Winnipeg in 2002. He started off in the Department of Anthropology and now teaches in the Department of Classics.
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Are you Textbroke?
University of Winnipeg (U of W) students spent anywhere between $100 and $1,900 on textbooks this fall, according to Megan Linton, vice-president external affairs for the University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA).
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Spoken word between the stacks
Anyone who’s ever been shushed in a library probably doesn’t associate that space with the phrase “spoken word."