Wawatay develops potential and creates a supportive path for Indigenous students in pursuit of a degree in science while restoring any preparations that might have been missing before arriving at the university.
DECEMBER 1, 2020 — Dennis Ballard is working with Manitoba First Nations to recruit Indigenous students interested in becoming Indigenous scientists and supporting health, environment, technology and industry in their own home communities.
OCTOBER 20, 2020 — Dr. Myrle Ballard’s land-based learning began at an early age in her home community of Lake St. Martin First Nation. Alongside her classroom learning, she spent her evenings and weekends helping her mother, aunts and uncles tend to the land and water systems. “I remember helping my mom around the yard, doing whatever was asked of me,” Dr. Ballard said. “Everything from feeding the cows, making hay, gathering berries and preparing the nets for the fishing season.”
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 — Taylor Morriseau [BSc(Hons)/17] is a Cree woman with roots in Peguis First Nation and one of Canada’s top graduate student researchers. Morriseau received the prestigious Vanier Scholarship in 2018, and was also a Rhodes Scholar finalist—Throughout her university studies, Morriseau has investigated several massive health-related challenges facing Indigenous people, from water quality to food security to hepatitis B (endemic among Inuit circumpolar populations)—to her main focus of diabetes.
MAY 6, 2020 — Gillian McIvor is a recipient for The Leader of Tomorrow Scholarship.
MARCH 27, 2018 — They are some of the brightest graduating high school students in Canada. They are also among the most selfless and caring. They are the University of Manitoba’s BMO Financial Group Leaders of Tomorrow and BMO Financial Group Indigenous Leaders of Tomorrow scholarship recipients.
The North American Indigenous Science Conference will take place at the University of Manitoba during summer 2022. The conference has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Stay tuned! More information coming soon.
“The University of Manitoba campuses are located on original lands of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation.
We respect the Treaties that were made on these territories, we acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past, and we dedicate ourselves to move forward in partnership with Indigenous communities in a spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.”
