CMU’s Neil Weisensel receives $50,000 SSHRCC grant for continued development of Louis Riel opera

CMU’s Neil Weisensel receives $50,000 SSHRCC grant for continued development of Louis Riel opera

Funding will help ensure every possible measure is taken to make Li Keur, Riel's Heart of the North a reconciliation project, curtain to curtain.

Grant writing is notoriously difficult, time-consuming, meticulous work, yielding unpredictable return on investment. Yet it remains an essential and unavoidable demand of research and creative careers. For Neil Weisensel, adjunct Professor of Music at CMU and composer of Li Keur, Riel's Heart of the North which débuted last year, the effort is paying off. He recently received $50,000 in the form of a federal grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) for further work on a thriving production.

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Face2Face | Us and Them: How did we become so polarized? (video)

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CMU's Spiritual Life Facilitator Danielle Morton speaks at one of the on-campus chapel gatherings

Words that bear repeating: chapel attendance up as CMU embraces liturgy

Thanks to a shift in approach, Tuesday all-campus worship gatherings at CMU are attracting a better, more consistent turnout from the student body. What's different? Spiritual Life Facilitator Danielle Morton says that incorporating liturgy has brought much-needed stillness, rest, and intimacy back to a campus worship routine that was not drawing attendance as it once had.

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2020 CMU Scientist in Residence | Dr. Deborah Haarsma (3 videos)

2020 CMU Scientist in Residence | Dr. Deborah Haarsma (3 videos)

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Faculty: In Their Own Words - Dr. Jodi Dueck-Read

Faculty: In Their Own Words - Dr. Jodi Dueck-Read

Dr. Jodi Dueck-Read, Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution Studies, has taught at Menno Simons College as a sessional instructor since 2010 and has been on faculty since 2015.

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