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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.
Read MoreSunday@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.
Read MoreChristmas at CMU 2024 (video)
Recorded on November 30, this year's event features: CMU Singers, Voice SA, Voices TB, Steel Drums, Guitar Ensemble, Handbell Ensemble, Concert Band, Resonant Scholars, the English Department Radio Players.
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Read MoreProfessor brings innovative environmental justice course to social work program
"Social workers are uniquely qualified to work at the front lines of catastrophes." So why hasn't the field engaged more with the global climate crisis?
Dr. Alexander Sawatsky, CMU Professor and Chair of Social Work, is asking this question with a course he introduced this semester: Environmental Justice and Social Work Practice.
Read More#myCMUlife | How CMU made me enjoy living in Winnipeg
Growing up in Winnipeg, I always thought I would leave this wintery plain the moment I turned 18. University seemed like the kind of thing you had to move away from Winnipeg for, to have a good experience like you see in the movies. I had visited other universities around Winnipeg and had seen the thousands of students rushing around the overwhelmingly large and at times not-so-aesthetically-pleasing campuses, running to catch busses in the freezing cold. I thought, "Yeah, I might take my business elsewhere."
Then I ended up at CMU by chance for a high school internship. The internship itself taught me so much and gave me the opportunity to work with a publishing company at 17 years old, but I was also enchanted by the architecture of the old castle building and the tiny classrooms compared to large lecture halls of other universities. This learning experience seemed to promise a more one-on-one approach.
I grew up in the North End of Winnipeg, which I found difficult for a plethora of reasons. When I moved to northern Manitoba, I made a promise to myself that when I moved again, I would never move back to Winnipeg. If you've ever seen the movie Lady Bird, I had sort of the same melodramatic line of thinking as the main character. As she says in the film, "I want to go to the east coast. I want to go where culture is."
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Read MoreSunday@CMU: October 2024
With Gratitude 2024
This month on Sunday@CMU, we're featuring student sharing from a CMU event called With Gratitude, which took place this past April. At With Gratitude, graduating students reflect on their journeys through CMU and express what their studies have meant to them, through words and music.
Read MoreCMU students connect to global project
Near the end of a research leave that I spent at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I had the opportunity to train as a partner instructor in the Tiny Earth program that's headquartered there. This program, launched in 2018, is a microbiology lab curriculum being pursued by a growing international network of students and instructors. The program's goal is to "studentsource" the discovery of new antibiotics—one avenue of response to the emerging crisis of antibiotic resistance in disease-causing bacteria. Tiny Earth is the brainchild of one of my scientific and pedagogical heroes: Jo Handelsman, a soil microbiologist and director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at UW Madison.
Read MoreCMU 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.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: May 2024
Voices of the CMU Community
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are featuring the voices of CMU students. Listen to speeches from the 2024 C. Henry Smith Oratorical Peace Contest and performances from this year's 19th annual Verna Mae Janzen music competition finals.
Read MoreFace2Face | 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.
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