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CMU student's award-winning speech encourages us to live with “an attitude of abundance”

CMU student's award-winning speech encourages us to live with “an attitude of abundance”

"The kingdom of God [that Jesus] preached about was one of banquets. It is a kingdom that starts with faith the size of a mustard seed and grows like yeast mixed with flour. You are invited; come and join the feast."

So says current Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) student Danika Warkentin in her award-winning speech titled, "Join the Feast."

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Bringing CMU choruses ‘Bach’ together this festive season

Bringing CMU choruses ‘Bach’ together this festive season

The Canadian Mennonite University Festival Chorus presents J.S. Bach's magnificent Christmas Oratorio, Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248 — a musical telling of the nativity story and the major feast days celebrated as part of the 12 days of Christmas. 

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MCC peace contest winner builds on food generosity

MCC peace contest winner builds on food generosity

The winning speech in the C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest says food can be a tool for peacebuilding if Jesus' invitation to join the feast is accepted.

Danika Warkentin, a student at Canadian Mennonite University, won the binational intercollegiate contest for students at Anabaptist colleges and universities that is administered by Mennonite Central Committee U.S.

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Levi Klassen co-authored In vitro and in vivo efficacy of Tecovirimat against a recently emerged 2022 Monkeypox virus isolate, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine in November 2022

CMU biology major co-authors paper published in landmark science journal

Levi Klassen's (CMU '22) second week working at the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) changed abruptly and without warning, pitching him into an expedited project running from May to November researching and analyzing treatments for the recent outbreak of mpox (the disease formerly known as monkeypox).  

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Uppinaq–Letters from Nunavut: Inuit Culture Loss and Survival in the 1960s and 1970s will review over three dozen letters with hopes of making the content available to society and accessible for future generations.

New MSC research project studies historic letters written by Inuit Elders

From the boundless territory of Nunavut come fragile and carefully kept documents that changed the history of not only northern Canada but the entire country.

A new research project at Menno Simons College (MSC), funded by a grant from the Government of Nunavut's Department of Culture and Heritage, will be translating and analyzing over three dozen letters that were handwritten in Inuktitut syllabics by Nunavut Elders in the 1960s and 1970s.

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