Faculty Profiles
Dr. John Brubacher | 2024 Kay and Lorne Dick Teaching Excellence Award Recipient (video)
Dr. John Brubacher, Associate Professor of Biology, has worked at CMU since 2008. He and Lynda Loewen, Teaching Assistant Professor of Psychology, are co-recipients of the 2024 Kay and Lorne Dick Teaching Excellence Award.
The award, established in 2022, is granted annually to two faculty members who best exemplify CMU's commitment to excellent teaching.
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Faculty in Their Own Words - Dr. Nicolas Malagon
Dr. Nicolas Malagon is Assistant Professor of Biology. He has taught at CMU since 2019.
What do you love about your work here?
Working with the students. You have small classes, so instead of having 300 students you can have here 10 or 20 and in that way you can know them better and work with them.
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Cross-continental research: CMU business faculty dive into UK economics
Two Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) faculty hopped the pond this past summer, not just to see the English countryside, visit Buckingham Palace, or catch a football game. They were there strictly for work purposes and to pursue extended research in their fields. Well, maybe also to see a little bit of countryside.
Jerry Buckland, Professor of International Development Studies and Craig Martin, Assistant Professor of Business may not have been in the UK for the same project, but their economic back (IDS) grounds mean both will bring back a wealth of valuable reports and material that will help sustain CMU's business and IDS studies.
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Faculty: In Their Own Words - Dr. Craig Martin
Dr. Craig Martin is Assistant Professor of Business and Program Coordinator for the Master of Business Administration program. He has taught at CMU since 2008.
What are you teaching right now that you're most excited about?
I've got two strategy courses, and the second one is especially fun. We actually turn the class into a consulting firm and we go out and work with real businesses. The idea is to work with small businesses and small organizations that typically don't have enough money to pay for a consulting firm. I also like taking on ones that struggle. Siloam Mission [a humanitarian organization serving those experiencing homelessness in Winnipeg] opened up their commercial laundry two summers ago. That business plan was actually done by our students. Those are the types of things we've been able to do and it really has an impact on students.
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Faculty: In Their Own Words - Dr. Alexander Sawatsky
Dr. Alexander Sawatsky is Professor and Chair of Social Work. He joined the CMU faculty in 2023.
What are you enjoying about your work here so far?
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