Opportunity overseas proves to be a win-Nguyen for CMU shooting guard
After moving to Canada with his family from Vietnam at the age of nine, Binh Nguyen has always had ambitious hoop dreams. One of his goals is to finish his five years of university basketball eligibility with an undergraduate degree. However, today the six-foot guard has even bigger dreams that bring him back to Asia. An opportunity awaits for Nguyen to start a professional basketball career in his native Vietnam, as well as the chance to the country on the national men's basketball team.
The popularity of basketball is rapidly stretching across the globe, and nowhere more than Southeast Asia where developed leagues thrive in The Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand. Since 2016, professional basketball has been a slam dunk in Vietnam.
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Notice of confirmed case of COVID-19 at CMU Shaftesbury Campus on November 3 (low risk)
Dear students, faculty, and staff of CMU,
A confirmed case of COVID-19 has been identified at the CMU Shaftesbury Campus. The individual was on campus on November 3 between the hours of 2:30 PM and 4:30 PM. At this point, this is considered to be a low-risk situation.
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Mennonite Heritage Archives part of groundbreaking storytelling project
When we think of preserving history in archives, our first thoughts might be of digging through boxes of grandma's things in the attic or leafing through yellowing photo albums. But that is not the whole picture.
The Mennonite Heritage Archives (MHA), located on CMU's campus and supported by CMU, is calling on Mennonites and Anabaptists to share their experiences during the remarkable historical, biological, and social events of 2020 as part of Anabaptist History Today (AHT), a groundbreaking collaborative storytelling project.
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Pandemic brings together students in Canada and Philippines
When students enrolled in Wendy Kroeker's upper-level Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies (PACTS) course, they didn't expect to have classmates 12,000 kilometres away.
Kroeker, Assistant Professor of PACTS at CMU, is teaching Cultures of Violence, Cultures of Peace to 16 students at CMU and 11 students in the Philippines.
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Sunday@CMU: November 2020
Theme: Gathered at the Table
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are hearing a new series of meditations from Kathy McCamis. Kathy is Associate Pastor at Bethel Mennonite Church in Winnipeg, and she is an alumna of CMU's Graduate School of Theology and Ministry. Her series explores who Jesus ate and talked with, and who we welcome to our table.
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