Keyword: Rachel Krause
Face2Face | 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.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: January 2024
Our Human Place in Creation
This month on Sunday@CMU, we're hearing from Dr. Rachel Krause, Associate Professor of Biology at CMU. Rachel teaches courses like ecology and global health. In this rebroadcast of her series of meditations, she explores our human place in nature and God's desire for how God's creation should live together.
Read MoreMennonite Central Committee, Canadian Mennonite University collaborate on $15M Climate Change Adaptation Project in Zimbabwe, funded by the Government of Canada
Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) is pleased to collaborate with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Canada in a new project, Locally-Led Indigenous Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation in Zimbabwe (LINCZ).
This project is made possible with the support of Global Affairs Canada, which has allocated up to $15 million to MCC. This initiative will include funding to CMU to collaborate with Zimbabwean academic and development organizations involved in the project.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: May 2023
Our Human Place in Creation
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are hearing from Rachel Krause, Associate Professor of Biology at CMU. Rachel teaches courses like ecology and global health. In this new series of meditations, she explores our human place in nature and God's desire for how God's creation should live together.
Read MoreEpisode 1: Pandemic
"So What?" is a new monthly CMU podcast that draws out key ideas from public events at Canadian Mennonite University. Host Jonas Cornelsen (CMU '16) guides you through these discussions by asking 'So What?".
What if science was more than a weapon in the fight against diseases like COVID-19? Biologist Rachel Krause talks about the ecology of pandemics: they are a natural result of living with other species. Philosopher and theologian Chris Huebner looks to the past, and opens up an unusual book during lockdown. He concludes that nothing about COVID-19 is "unprecedented."
Read MoreCMU faculty reflect on courses taught during the pandemic (videos)
The challenges of a global pandemic have highlighted the quality of education offered by CMU. Below, seven CMU faculty members reflect on courses they taught in fall 2020 amidst the challenges and complexities of COVID-19.
Rachel Krause, Assistant Professor of Biology
Introduction to Global Health
Face2Face | Seeing Through the Pandemic: The Art of Noticing (video)
COVID-19 focuses our daily attention on physical distancing, sanitization and hygiene, masks, ventilation systems, maximum space capacities, infection, testing, self-isolation...and more. At times, COVID-19 leaves us feeling anxious and forces us to confront life's fragility. COVID-19 also invites us to think about what we notice and how we see.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: November 2017
Sunday@CMU is a 15-minute radio program that features biblical meditations from current and emeritus professors, music from CMU ensembles and choirs, and interviews with faculty, staff, students, and alumni.
Host and Producer: Aaron Epp, Alumni Writer & Social Media Coordinator
Read MoreFaculty: In Their Own Words – Dr. Rachel Krause
Dr. Rachel Krause, Assistant Professor of Biology, has taught at CMU since 2015.
What are you teaching right now that you're most excited about?
Read MoreScientists to explore why beauty matters at upcoming Face2Face discussion event
Three scientists will take audience members on a guided tour into the wonder of nature at Canadian Mennonite University’s next Face2Face community discussion.
Titled, “Why Beauty Matters: Radical Amazement, Spirituality, and the Ecological Crisis,” the discussion will feature Dr. Tim Rogalsky, Associate Professor of Mathematics at CMU; Dr. Rachel Krause, Assistant Professor of Biology at CMU; and Randy Herrmann, an engineer who works at the University of Manitoba.
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