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Project participants test a threshing machine (Photo courtesy Kirit Patel)

CMU/MSC-affiliated research project awarded $2.6M

Canadian universities and project partners awarded $2.6M in funding from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Government of Canada’s Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD).

Principal investigators are Dr. Pashupati Chaudhary from Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD), Dr. Ram Rana from Anamolbiu Private Limited, and Manish N. Raizada from the University of Guelph.

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©Ellen Paulley. Barbara Bucheli. Menno Simons College.

Creating positive change

When Barbara Bucheli graduated from high school, she knew she wanted to study world issues and learn about ways local, national, and global problems are being addressed.

“I wanted to be educated on effective actions to prevent, solve, or reduce problems we face,” she says. “And I wanted to find where my skills and passion fit in the bigger picture of future local, national, and global development and improvement.”

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Jesse Krause

Alumnus debuts new oratorio with experimental ensemble, Geräuschbiest

Trees, antlers, piano tuning pins, and bicycle parts – these are just a few of the found objects Canadian Mennonite University alumnus Jesse Krause has used to build his own instruments.

Krause uses these homemade instruments to perform in Geräuschbiest, an experimental ensemble that also includes his brother, Thomas (CMU ‘13).

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A. James Reimer and Paul Doerksen.

CMU prof completes unfinished book by mentor, friend

Paul Doerksen's latest book is one he hoped he would never have to work on.

Doerksen, Associate Professor of Theology and Anabaptist Studies at CMU, is the editor of Toward an Anabaptist Political Theology: Law, Order, and Civil Society. Published this past October by Wipf and Stock, the book is a collection of essays by the late theologian A. James Reimer.

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Injury, care of faculty leads to fulfilling change in career direction

Kim Wiens was an accomplished pianist and clarinettist studying music performance at Canadian Mennonite Bible College when a terrible injury forced her to re-evaluate her future.

During the summer between her first and second year at CMBC, one of CMU’s predecessor colleges, Wiens worked as a counsellor at Camp Valaqua in Water Valley, AB. She was moving a ping-pong table with its sides up. One of the sides came crashing down, crushing her hand.

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