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CMU welcomes new biology professor for three-year term
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 @ 9:19 AM
Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) is welcoming another faculty member to its growing science program.
Dr. Nicolas Malagon, the new Assistant Professor of Biology, will begin teaching in September 2019 for a three-year term.
Continue ReadingCMU psychology professor awarded $100,000 research grant
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 Reading2019 CMU PAX Award Presentation to Rudy Wiebe (video)
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 @ 12:58 PM
Rudy Wiebe, is best known for his novels set in the Canadian prairies and his representations of Indigenous people. He was awarded the Governor General's Award for Fiction twice, for The Temptations of Big Bear (1973) and A Discovery of Strangers (1994) and won the Charles Taylor Prize for Of This Earth: a Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest (2006).
View DetailsSunday@CMU: April 2019
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: If We Walk in the Light
Speaker: John Brubacher
Dr. John Brubacher, Assistant Professor of Biology, presents a four-part sermon series exploring 1 John 1:5-7.
Listen NowClarinetist wins 2019 Verna Mae Janzen Music Competition
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 ReadingMusic Therapy degree opens worlds of opportunity for graduate
Monday, April 1, 2019 @ 11:18 AM
Rebekah Miller sees the effects of music's transformative power in countless different ways every week. No two days on the job are ever alike for the music therapist and educator.
"One day I'm working with two-year olds and then the next I'm working with 102-year olds," says Miller, who graduated from CMU with a Bachelor of Music Therapy in 2018. "What I love the most about my work right now is the diversity. I love working with different age groups and having different goals."
Continue ReadingCanadian Mennonite University signs MOU with Filipino peacebuilding institute
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.
Continue ReadingNew book from CMU Press explores history of Westgate Mennonite Collegiate
Monday, March 25, 2019 @ 8:00 AM
A new book published by the Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) Press presents a detailed account of the history of Westgate Mennonite Collegiate, a private Mennonite high school in Winnipeg.
Necessary Idealism: A History of Westgate Mennonite Collegiate is written by Dr. Janis Thiessen, Associate Professor of History at the University of Winnipeg.
Continue ReadingCMU to honour writer Rudy Wiebe with 2019 PAX Award
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 @ 9:19 AM
Renowned writer Rudy Wiebe will receive the 2019 Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) PAX Award.
CMU President Dr. Cheryl Pauls will present the award to Wiebe on Thursday, April 4, 2019 at Spring at CMU, an annual fundraiser in support of the university.
Continue ReadingUpcoming public lecture to explore Anabaptism in Guatemala
Monday, March 11, 2019 @ 9:00 AM
"How do we live as a transnational Mennonite community when some within the community are implicated in the harm done to others? How do we live out the authentic witness of early Anabaptism?" These are some of the questions Dr. Patricia Harms will raise at the 2019 John and Margaret Friesen Lectures at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU).
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