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Mennonite Heritage Archives part of groundbreaking storytelling project
When we think of preserving history in archives, our first thoughts might be of digging through boxes of grandma's things in the attic or leafing through yellowing photo albums. But that is not the whole picture.
The Mennonite Heritage Archives (MHA), located on CMU's campus and supported by CMU, is calling on Mennonites and Anabaptists to share their experiences during the remarkable historical, biological, and social events of 2020 as part of Anabaptist History Today (AHT), a groundbreaking collaborative storytelling project.
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Pandemic brings together students in Canada and Philippines
When students enrolled in Wendy Kroeker's upper-level Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies (PACTS) course, they didn't expect to have classmates 12,000 kilometres away.
Kroeker, Assistant Professor of PACTS at CMU, is teaching Cultures of Violence, Cultures of Peace to 16 students at CMU and 11 students in the Philippines.
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Cultivating health and wellbeing
What comes to mind when thinking about 'wellness' and 'mental health'? For many, taking care of mental health may mean booking a session with a therapist. For others, practising wellness might mean beginning a new diet or exercise routine. While, generally, these practices embody the most basic expressions of wellness, wellbeing is impacted by every facet of life. As CMU's Spiritual Life Facilitator Danielle Morton puts it, "wellness can feel like a nebulous category. What counts and does not count as wellness can look different for everyone."
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From planarian worms to the pandemic
Dr. John Brubacher visits the library every day. But instead of books, this library contains millions of yeast clones.
Brubacher is Assistant Professor of Biology at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), but is currently on a three-year research leave, of which he has two years left. He's working at the Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison, WI as Visiting Assistant Scientist in the institute's Newmark Lab. Researchers there utilize the tools of molecular cell biology and functional genomics to address several major biological problems.
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Creation care as career: spotlight on alumni farmers (part 4 of 4)
"This is my evangelical plea to any 20-something malcontents among you: stop wasting anger on The Corporation and The Conservatives and get some chickens instead." – Nicholas Rempel
Nicholas Rempel has been working on chemical-free farms in Manitoba for seven growing seasons. Along with Arianna Hildebrand of this series' last feature, and James Magnus-Johnson, founder of the CMU Centre for Resilience, Rempel is a former board member of Fireweed Food Co-op. Through 2014 and 2015 he studied International Development Studies (IDS) at CMU, and in 2016 he became a founding member of Natural Collective, a small farm and CSA located just outside Niverville MB. He is also a wry-humoured rogue.
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