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CMU announces 2024 Leadership Scholarship recipients
Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) strives to make education accessible and affordable for students through scholarships and bursaries. In 2022/23, CMU distributed over $720,000 in financial assistance to students.
CMU is pleased to award the 2024 Leadership Scholarship to Adalynne Pahl (Westgate Mennonite Collegiate), Milo Klassen (Mennonite Collegiate Institute), and Ella Grijalva (Collège Béliveau).
Continue ReadingCMU professor receives federal funds to study cultural, religious differences in family caregiving (WFP)
In 2018, more than 375,000 Manitobans spent 230 million hours looking after ill or aging family members—care worth $3.9 billion.
That same year, about one in four Canadians, or 7.8 million people, provided care to a family member or friend with a long-term health condition, a physical or mental disability or problems related to aging.
Those figures, the most recently available, come from Statistics Canada General Social Survey on Caregiving and Care. And over the next five years, they will form the background to new research by Canadian Mennonite University Prof. Heather Campbell-Enns.
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Continue ReadingSunday@CMU: August 2024
Seasonal Reflections on Food, Faith, and Land
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are rebroadcasting reflections from Kenton Lobe, Teaching Assistant Professor of International Development and Environmental Studies at CMU. In addition to teaching part-time, Kenton runs a small community shared agriculture farm in Neubergthal, Manitoba. Throughout this series, he explores the relationship between food, faith, and land.
Listen NowCMU professor awarded prestigious Canada Research Chair
Dr. Heather Campbell-Enns, Associate Professor of Psychology at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), has been awarded a Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier 2 in Families and Aging.
This is the first time CMU has received a CRC award, which will contribute $120,000 to the university annually over a period of five years, for a total of $600,000 in funding.
Continue ReadingCMU theology student receives prized Canada Graduate Scholarship
CMU student Karissa Durant has been awarded a prestigious Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's award worth $17,500.
The Government of Canada announced in March the results of the competition for the 2022/23 academic year. The scholarships are administered by Canada's federal granting agencies: the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Continue ReadingFace2Face | Let’s Get Dirty: The Lowdown on Earth’s Fabric in your own Yard (video)
From Zimbabwe to Winnipeg, science has uncovered the potential that lies within the soil. From nutrient-rich food production to life-saving antibiotics, learn how the dirt in the fields and in your own yard can be harnessed to make our world a better, healthier place. Hear from scientists, researchers, conservationists, and farmers as they unearth the impact we can all make on local and global communities.
View DetailsSunday@CMU: April 2024
Thirsting for Faith, Quenching Doubt: Stories of Water in Life and Scripture
This month on Sunday@CMU, we're hearing a series from CMU's Residence Director, Mackenzie Nicolle. In her reflections, she explores stories from the Bible and her own life in which water, faith, and doubt weave together.
Listen NowSunday@CMU: March 2024
Living in Hope
The month of March this year spans the Lenten season in the Christian church. Lent is the 40-day period of reflection and preparation that leads up to Easter and commemorates Jesus' 40 days of fasting in the desert. On Sunday@CMU, we're hearing meditations from Karl Koop, Professor of History and Theology at CMU. His series guides us as we journey towards Jesus' death and resurrection.
Listen Now2024 John and Margaret Friesen Lectures - Revisiting the Mennonite Experience in Ukraine (2 videos)
The 2024 Friesen Lectures are unified by a geographical context and dedicated to understanding the history of Mennonite communities in Ukraine. Addressing diverse themes from distant historical periods, Ukrainian professor Dr. Nataliya Venger provides listeners with the opportunity to immerse themselves once again in the unique world of Mennonite history in both a remote and more immediate historical perspective.
View DetailsCross-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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