Changes at CMU due to code red
During this extraordinary fall, the contributions of students, staff, and faculty have been outstanding in attending to the safety, health, and well-being of all. Your collective efforts have enabled us to learn well together and to sustain a remarkable record of health throughout the learning community. Thank you for the depth of your care for the safety and well-being of yourself and of others, on campus and everywhere you go.
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MSC Alumni Profile: Jordan Ewart (BA IDS, 2018)
For Jordan Ewart, policy analyst at the Saskatchewan Trucking Agency, the trucking industry in Canada continues to experience a significant shortage in female employees. With 97% of truckers identifying as male and only 3% as female, Ewart—who graduated with a BA in International Development Studies and is completing an additional major in Conflict Resolution Studies at Menno Simons College (MSC)—is recognizing more and more the need for female employment in a male-dominated industry.
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MSC Alumni Profile: Jordan Ewart (BA IDS, 2018)
For Jordan Ewart, policy analyst at the Saskatchewan Trucking Agency, the trucking industry in Canada continues to experience a significant shortage in female employees. With 97% of truckers identifying as male and only 3% as female, Ewart—who graduated with a BA in International Development Studies and is completing an additional major in Conflict Resolution Studies at Menno Simons College (MSC)—is recognizing more and more the need for female employment in a male-dominated industry.
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From planarian worms to the pandemic
Dr. John Brubacher visits the library every day. But instead of books, this library contains millions of yeast clones.
Brubacher is Assistant Professor of Biology at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), but is currently on a three-year research leave, of which he has two years left. He's working at the Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison, WI as Visiting Assistant Scientist in the institute's Newmark Lab. Researchers there utilize the tools of molecular cell biology and functional genomics to address several major biological problems.
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Creation care as career: spotlight on alumni farmers (part 4 of 4)
"This is my evangelical plea to any 20-something malcontents among you: stop wasting anger on The Corporation and The Conservatives and get some chickens instead." – Nicholas Rempel
Nicholas Rempel has been working on chemical-free farms in Manitoba for seven growing seasons. Along with Arianna Hildebrand of this series' last feature, and James Magnus-Johnson, founder of the CMU Centre for Resilience, Rempel is a former board member of Fireweed Food Co-op. Through 2014 and 2015 he studied International Development Studies (IDS) at CMU, and in 2016 he became a founding member of Natural Collective, a small farm and CSA located just outside Niverville MB. He is also a wry-humoured rogue.
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