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CMU 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.
Read MoreCMU 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.
Read MoreCMU 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."
Read MoreSunday@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.
Read MoreDr. 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.
Read MoreHow 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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Read MoreSunday@CMU: February 2025
Sunday, February 2, 2025 @ 12:00 AM
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.
Read MoreCMU announces appointment of academic dean
Thursday, January 23, 2025 @ 4:46 PM
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
Sunday, December 1, 2024 @ 12:00 AM
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 MoreCMU faculty awarded King Charles III’s Coronation Medal
Thursday, November 28, 2024 @ 10:02 AM
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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