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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 cold-blooded organisms with no backbone.
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CMU celebrates Class of 2026
Ninety-one undergraduate and graduate students celebrated the completion of their degrees at Canadian Mennonite University's 25th annual convocation ceremony on Saturday, April 25.
Knox United Church was full of faculty, staff, students, family, and friends , celebrating the accomplishments of the Class of 2026 as another academic year came to a close.
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What CMU is doing differently to prepare future teachers (CHVN)
Canadian Mennonite University is launching a new education program this August, designed to better prepare future teachers for the realities of Manitoba classrooms.
Christine Kampen-Robinson, co-chair of education and experiential learning, says the 16-month intensive program is designed to connect theory with real-world teaching experience.
CMU student helps team place third in innovative business competition
When Rosalyn Dao, a student in the Redekop School of Business at CMU, heard about an opportunity to spend her weekend solving a business challenge for a real company and presenting it before an audience—all within 48 hours, and with a team she had never met—she was eager to take on the challenge.
The opportunity was Sprint to Innovate: The Innovation Challenge, powered by Canada Life. This year's edition, running January 30 to February 1, brought together about 100 students in technology and business from post-secondary institutions across Manitoba. Each team of four to six students raced to create a solution and viable prototype for a challenge presented by an industry organization, then prepare and deliver a pitch before the weekend was over. Dao's team, which included her and five RRC Polytech students, placed third.
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CMU students volunteer to rebuild homes after U.S. wildfire
Two years after a wildfire devastated Elk, Washington, ten students from Canadian Mennonite University joined Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) to help residents rebuild their lives and homes from the ground up.
The students spent their reading week on reconstruction projects, sanding drywall, mudding walls, and listening to residents recount the sudden loss of their homes.
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