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CMU welcomes new faculty to start 2025/26 academic year

CMU enters a new academic year with both excitement and gratitude, welcoming five new faculty members whose expertise spans music, biology, social work, psychology, and chemistry.

Together, these teaching appointments highlight the university's ongoing commitment to interdisciplinary teaching, faith-integrated scholarship, and nurturing students in ways that prepare them to engage the world with curiosity, compassion, and purpose.

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CMU psychology professor awarded grant for dementia research

Heather Campbell-Enns, PhD, has received a $200,000 grant co-funded by the Alzheimer Society of Canada and Research Manitoba for her work in dementia research. It will specifically support her current project, A Pilot Study of Ethnocultural Approaches to Family-Provided Dementia Care, which explores how caregiving is shaped by cultural knowledge, traditions, and intergenerational experiences.

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CMU professor selected for major financial literacy research advisory group

Jerry Buckland, PhD, CMU Professor of Economics and International Development Studies, was recently selected to be a member of the International Network on Financial Education (INFE), a leading institution in the field of financial literacy and education.

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Sunday@CMU: March 2025

Images for the Christian Life

This month on Sunday@CMU, we hear from Sue Sorensen, Professor of English at CMU. She is also Director of CMU Press and a novelist and poet. Her series of meditations for this Lenten season contemplates images that help us conceive of our relationship with Christ.

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Dr. John Brubacher | 2024 Kay and Lorne Dick Teaching Excellence Award Recipient (video)

Dr. John Brubacher, Associate Professor of Biology, has worked at CMU since 2008. He and Lynda Loewen, Teaching Assistant Professor of Psychology, are co-recipients of the 2024 Kay and Lorne Dick Teaching Excellence Award.

The award, established in 2022, is granted annually to two faculty members who best exemplify CMU's commitment to excellent teaching.

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How a local professor spent 20 years exploring the meaning of 'Oh My God'

Does the phrase "Oh my God" offend you? Have you ever wondered how it became something that people blurt out multiple times a day?

David Balzer, an associate professor of communications and media at Canadian Mennonite University and a storyteller at heart, is preparing to release an audio documentary that will answer all of these questions and more.

"I was doing the radio show [God Talk] and I had some friends at the University of Manitoba. They wanted to do something creative on campus and I got this idea to do a live show out of the university centre," said Balzer. "And so we're trying to pick a theme and during that week I was going to campus that week and I'm like, what could we do that would kind of bridge between our interest about who God is and culture and this phrase, 'oh my God' came up in my thinking."

 

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Sunday@CMU: February 2025

Suffering the Truth: Occasional Sermons and Reflections

This month on Sunday@CMU, we hear from Chris Huebner, Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy at CMU. As we prepare to observe Lent next month, Chris will get us thinking about this season in the church calendar with excerpts from his book, Suffering the Truth: Occasional Sermons and Reflections.

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CMU announces appointment of academic dean

Dr. Janet Brenneman, Professor of Music, has been appointed Academic Dean of Canadian Mennonite University (CMU).

Effective July 2025, Dr. Brenneman begins a five-year term as Academic Dean spending her time working to support CMU faculty processes as well as maintaining a small teaching load to conduct CMU Choirs.

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Sunday@CMU: December 2024

Advent: A Season of Waiting

Throughout the Advent season, we wait for the coming of Christmas. On Sunday@CMU, Paul Doerksen's series of reflections will guide us through this time of anticipation and preparation. Paul is Associate Professor of Theology and Anabaptist Studies at CMU.

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CMU faculty awarded King Charles III’s Coronation Medal

Dr. Stephanie Stobbe, Associate Professor and Chair of Conflict Resolution Studies at Canadian Mennonite University, has been awarded the King Charles III's Coronation Medal for her work on the Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees exhibition.

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