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Verna Wiebe | 2025 Kay and Lorne Dick Teaching Excellence Award recipient (video)
Monday, March 16, 2026 @ 2:12 PM
Verna Wiebe, Teaching Assistant Professor of Music, worked at CMU and its predecessor college CMBC for 37 years, starting in 1988 and retiring in 2025. She and Dr. Paul Doerksen, Associate Professor of Theology and Anabaptist Studies and P.M. Friesen Co-Chair in Biblical and Theological Studies, are co-recipients of the 2025 Kay and Lorne Dick Teaching Excellence Award.
Continue ReadingDr. Paul Doerksen | 2025 Kay and Lorne Dick Teaching Excellence Award recipient (video)
Monday, March 16, 2026 @ 11:53 AM
Dr. Paul Doerksen, Associate Professor of Theology and Anabaptist Studies and PM Friesen Co-Chair in Biblical and Theological Studies, has worked at CMU since 2011. He and Verna Wiebe, Teaching Assistant Professor of Music, are co-recipients of the 2025 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.
Continue ReadingCMU adds faculty member to growing social work program
Thursday, March 12, 2026 @ 12:46 PM
CMU continues to grow and enrich its Bachelor of Social Work degree program with the addition of Dr. Felicia Owadara, Assistant Professor of Social Work, who joined the faculty on July 1, 2025.
Owadara brings to CMU a particularly global breadth of experience and connections in teaching, research, and practical social work. She has studied in Nigeria (Master of Education from the University of Ibadan), England (Master of Research in Social Policy and Social Work Research from the University of York), and Canada (PhD in Social Work from the University of Manitoba). She has been a social worker in Nigeria's medical system, and she has worked on numerous international research projects.
Continue ReadingSunday at CMU: January 2026
Sunday, January 4, 2026 @ 11:58 AM
The Question of Christian Politics
This month on Sunday at CMU, we will hear meditations from Dr. Paul Dyck, Professor of English at CMU. He attends Saint Margaret's Anglican Church with his family and was recently ordained as deacon in the Anglican Church of Canada. In this four-part series, Paul discusses Christianity and politics. Going beyond partisan politics, he examines the system in which we live together, God's coming kingdom, and Christ's call to love.
Listen NowCMU welcomes new faculty to start 2025/26 academic year
Monday, September 15, 2025 @ 9:18 AM
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.
Continue ReadingCMU psychology professor awarded grant for dementia research
Monday, August 18, 2025 @ 3:40 PM
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.
Continue ReadingCMU professor selected for major financial literacy research advisory group
Friday, August 15, 2025 @ 10:08 AM
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.
The INFE is a project of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an organization with headquarters in Paris and approximately 70 member countries, which works to measure and improve financial literacy around the world. Buckland says, "The OECD's INFE has been a pioneer in promoting financial education internationally."
Continue ReadingSunday@CMU: March 2025
Sunday, March 2, 2025 @ 12:00 AM
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.
Listen NowDr. John Brubacher | 2024 Kay and Lorne Dick Teaching Excellence Award Recipient (video)
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 @ 3:47 PM
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.
Continue ReadingHow a local professor spent 20 years exploring the meaning of 'Oh My God'
Thursday, February 13, 2025 @ 10:22 AM
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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