Lynda Loewen | 2024 Kay and Lorne Dick Teaching Excellence Award Recipient (video)
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.
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Completion of geothermal field a milestone in renovation project and improved sustainability
Over the past few months, CMU's Uphold Campaign, which is revitalizing and renewing the Poettcker Hall residence at CMU, has made significant strides with the installation of a new geothermal field to provide heating and cooling to the dormitory.
In mid 2024, CMU was the recipient of $351,000 in funding from the Government of Manitoba through the Merit-based Low Carbon Economy Fund, a collaborative funding initiative between the Government of Canada and the Manitoba government.
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Spring 2025 alumni updates
John Longhurst (MBBC '79), Winnipeg, MB, was appointed to the Order of Canada in December 2024 for his interfaith journalism at the Winnipeg Free Press, where he has been a faith page columnist since 2003 and a faith reporter since 2019. Through his writing, he seeks to connect people across religions and strives to foster understanding and respect. Longhurst also writes for various other publications in Canada and the U.S., including Canadian Affairs, Anabaptist World, Faith Today, Christian Courier and the Canadian Jewish News. He has won awards for his writing from the Associated Church Press and the Canadian Church Press and, in 2021, he received the Manitoba Lieutenant Governor's Award for the Advancement of Interreligious Understanding.
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Alumni in their own words - Nathan Loewen (CMBC '94)
Where has life taken you since you left CMU?
Today, I'm a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama (UA). I moved to Alabama in 2013 and was hired by UA in 2015. I really enjoy working here! It's a very different context from Canada's that I've come to really enjoy. It's the perfect mix of nature and academia!
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#myCMUlife | “Well… it depends…”: Four insights into studying music therapy at CMU
Four years ago, I had never heard of music therapy. Now, I can't imagine doing anything else.
In the fall of 2017, I was heading into the last year of my Bachelor of Music in piano at King's University in Edmonton, trying to figure out what to do afterwards. As I skimmed through a promotional brochure about what to do with a music degree, the words "music therapy" caught my eye. I was instantly intrigued. I remember phoning a music therapist to get more information. When I asked what a typical music therapy workday might look like, she replied with, "Well... it depends...." While I thought this answer was profoundly unhelpful in the moment, I've seen how true it is after studying music therapy at CMU.
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