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CMU psychology professor awarded $100,000 research grant
Posted in News Releases | Wednesday, April 24, 2019 @ 9:11 AM
Dr. Heather Campbell-Enns, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), received a one-year grant worth $100,000 through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Campbell-Enns will use the grant for a research project titled Best Practices: Transitions from Hospital to Community-Based Settings for Rural and Remote Persons with Dementia.
Continue ReadingOuttatown looks to the future while celebrating 17 years in South Africa
Posted in News Releases | Thursday, April 18, 2019 @ 1:00 PM
From its start in 1998/99, the Outtatown Discipleship School program (Outtatown) has been shaped by a deep commitment to a cohort-based, cross-cultural, faith forming education through which students would come to 'know themselves, know the world, and know God'. Over the past 21 years, many of the 1,457 students who participated in the Outtatown program speak of it as "a life-changing experience."
Continue ReadingClarinetist wins 2019 Verna Mae Janzen Music Competition
Posted in News Releases | Tuesday, April 2, 2019 @ 6:45 AM
A clarinetist from Manitoba is the winner of the 14th annual Verna Mae Janzen Music Competition at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU).
Stephanie Wilson's performance earned her first place and the $700 prize that comes with it on Wednesday, March 20. She is the first clarinetist to ever win the competition.
Continue ReadingCMU faculty and students mandated to don academic regalia starting 2019/20
Posted in News Releases | Monday, April 1, 2019 @ 12:00 AM
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Winnipeg, April 1, 2019 – Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) Senate has passed a motion to institute academic dress as required day-wear for all CMU faculty and students. Faculty will don their robes and the hoods entitled to them by their credentials, while students will wear plain robes until receiving the appropriate hoods upon graduation.
Continue ReadingCanadian Mennonite University signs MOU with Filipino peacebuilding institute
Posted in News Releases | Friday, March 29, 2019 @ 12:00 PM
Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) has entered into a collaboration agreement through a memorandum of understanding with the Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute Foundation, Inc. (MPI). The memo states the intention of cooperation for collaboration on mutually beneficial grant opportunities, curriculum development, and activities for the advancement of programming between the two entities.
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