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Where is the University of Manitoba? If you answered, Manitoba, you’re right. Sort of. In the following pages, you will learn it is also Karnataka, India, where Dr. James Blanchard’s street-level mission to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS has the world taking notice, and taking cues. It is the French Riviera, where Drake International CEO and co-founder Bill Pollock continues to deliver talent management and recruitment solutions to companies around the world. It is Hong Kong, where Esther Suen runs the ‘family company’ — a manufacturing powerhouse behind many of
Shantou University/U of M academic partnership: more than a decade of Medicine student, resident, researcher and faculty exchanges.
Expanding Communications In the ’60s, the late Yvonne (Claeys) Brill [BSc/45] pioneers rocket propulsion system that allows communications satellites to maintain a fixed, geosynchronous orbit. Years later, U of M researcher Lotfollah Shafai and his team develop compact antennas that revolutionize wireless communications.
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the household products we use every day; and where Rita Mui and fellow Hong Kong Alumni Association volunteers have for decades been ambassadors of the U of M. It is Toronto, where NHL marketing executive Laurie Kepron fuels the passion of professional hockey fans across North America, even on the heels of the season’s most recent lockout. Their stories, and tens of thousands more just like them, affirm the University of Manitoba’s place in the world. We call Manitoba home, but our reach is global.
Prof. Michael Campbell [BA/80, MA/86] and Makerere University (Uganda) develop tourism and conservation programs that support local communities while protecting another resident: Africa’s mountain gorilla.*
Learning from Experience Australia & New Zealand
The Students for Development (SFD) program—a collaborative partnership between the U of M and Brazil’s Don Bosco Catholic University (UCDB)—offers student internship opportunities to work with Brazil’s Guarani Indigenous people.* * Complete stories at umanitoba.ca/onmanitoba
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