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Lynda Loewen | 2024 Kay and Lorne Dick Teaching Excellence Award Recipient (video)
Thursday, June 19, 2025 @ 7:23 PM
Lynda Loewen has worked at CMU for over 15 years, first as a sessional instructor and today as Teaching Assistant Professor of Psychology. In the 2024/25 academic year, she taught Interpersonal Communication, Counseling Theories, Counseling Techniques, and Trauma and Resilience. She also works as a therapist, her first vocation, which she has been doing since 2008.
Read MoreSocial Media Disinformation: How To Prevent, Identify, Combat (video)
Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 1:00 PM
May 1, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (CDT)
This event was presented in partnership by the Public Policy Program at Massey College in Toronto and CMU, featuring the Honourable Matt Wiebe, Minister of Justice and Attorney General from the province of Manitoba and Professor Heidi Tworek, Canada Research Chair and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions at the University of British Columbia. The event will be moderated by Tom Axworthy, Public Policy Chair at Massey College.
Class of 2025 Convocation Service (video)
Monday, April 28, 2025 @ 10:53 AM
Read More2025 Verna Mae Janzen Music Competition
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 @ 4:34 PM
In its 20th year, the finalists of the 2025 Verna Mae Janzen Music Competition were:
Read MoreNEW! CMU Elite Gold Unlimited Prestige Student Card (video)
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 @ 9:00 AM
Big things are happening at CMU! This fall we're introducing a student experience as excellent as our academics—the CMU Elite Gold Unlimited Prestige Student Plan. Enroll now for the finest experience CMU has to offer.
Read MoreFace2Face | Anabaptism at 500: Commitment to Scripture (video)
Friday, February 28, 2025 @ 4:46 PM
From 1525 to 2025, Anabaptists have taken a very personal and community-oriented approach to their embrace of the scriptures. This evening's conversation will investigate the ways the Bible shaped the 16th century Anabaptist movement at its inception and continues to uniquely define the Anabaptist tradition today. We will also celebrate the Canadian launch of the Anabaptist Community Bible.
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 More2025 Friesen Lectures Series | Anabaptist Peace Witness - Historical Significance and Today's Mission (videos)
Thursday, January 23, 2025 @ 5:09 PM
2025 John and Margaret Friesen Lecture Series is a two-part installment titled, "Anabaptist Peace Witness – Historical Significance and Today's Mission," with Dr. Astrid von Schlachta, Head of the Mennonite Research Center and lecturer at the University of Regensburg. The lectures took place on Thursday, January 23, 2025 at CMU.
Read MoreChristmas at CMU 2024 (video)
Saturday, November 30, 2024 @ 10:00 PM
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.
View the Christmas at CMU Program
Read MoreWays of Knowing 1 Lecture Series | 'Hope and Resilience - Ways of Understanding Refugee Stories with Dr. Stephanie Stobbe (video)
Thursday, October 31, 2024 @ 5:32 PM
Lecture Title: Hope and Resilience - Ways of Understanding Refugee Stories
Dr. Stephanie Stobbe, Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution Studies
This is the second in a series of three lectures for CMU's 2024/25 first-year course, Ways of Knowing 1 (WK1). In this collaboratively taught course, students work with faculty in seminar settings, roundtable discussions, and public lectures to engage the central question chosen by faculty—what are people for? WK1 invites students into the heart of CMU, involving them in an interdisciplinary, cohort-based class that gets faculty and students thinking theologically together about an issue of current concern, across disciplinary edges.
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