While completing his Master of Divinity at CMU, David Naylor worked with Union Gospel Mission in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

CMU graduate studies addiction and care in Canada's poorest postal code

David Naylor is never sure what his workday will look like when he starts his shift. "It can be anything from giving out a pair of socks to reviving somebody with naloxone in the back alley," he says.

Naylor works at Union Gospel Mission (UGM), a non-profit organization that does community outreach as Christian ministry in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, a neighbourhood with some of the highest urban rates of addiction, homelessness, and poverty in Canada.

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Tapping into Manitoba history will be easier with futuristic boost from AI chatbot, creators say (from CBC)

Tapping into Manitoba history will be easier with futuristic boost from AI chatbot, creators say (from CBC)

Manitoba's history is being ushered into the future through artificial intelligence.

Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg and the Manitoba Historical Society are teaming up to create their own locally developed AI chatbot that will enable the public to reach deep into the province's past in a new and instant way.

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Associate Professor Heather Campbell-Enns (left) works alongside research assistants Kayden Brown and Rachel Neufeld on dementia and family caregiving research projects at CMU.

Learning research from the inside out

As part of Research Month at CMU, stories throughout May are highlighting the people, partnerships, and projects shaping research across the university. For students working alongside faculty as research assistants, that work means gaining hands-on experience while contributing to meaningful research projects.

Behind the scenes of any published academic paper is an army of research assistants (RAs) who help aggregate, organize, and shape the research itself.

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Dr. Tim Rogalsky received a Manitoba Solutions Grant for approximately $150,000 from Research Manitoba to develop an ethical AI chatbot that will help people explore Manitoba’s history through the Manitoba Historical Society’s Historic Sites database.

CMU professor receives grant for innovative AI research

Dr. Tim Rogalsky, Associate Professor of Mathematics at CMU, has received a Manitoba Solutions Grant for approximately $150,000 over two years from Research Manitoba. It will fund a project titled, "Ethical AI for Manitoba: The MHS Agentic Chatbot Project," led by Rogalsky and his co-investigator Dr. Gordon Goldsborough of the Manitoba Historical Society (MHS).

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CMU graduate Asher Warkentin travelled to Zimbabwe to study the ecological effects of climate change on river ecosystems.

A CMU student's research journey reaches Zimbabwe

As Canadian Mennonite University marks its first Research Month this May, stories like Asher Warkentin's show how student research can extend far beyond the classroom, from Manitoba to wetlands in southern Africa.

To Asher Warkentin, studying at CMU means travelling to southern Africa to look at microscopic invertebrates.

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