BRANDON, MB — Federal government funding for Skills Link, an initiative focusing on youth, was announced today by MP Merv Tweed. With Brandon University President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Deborah Poff along with Career and Employment Youth Services (CEYS) representative Richard Greer on hand, MP Tweed underlined the critical need to ensure that youth have access to further education and to potential employers.
Author: Grant Hamilton
BRANDON, MB — Some 65 million years ago, the Dromaeosaurus was a feathered carnivore, with razor-sharp teeth, sickle-like claws on its feet, and a tail that plumed several feet behind it. Today, a skeleton of this creature has made its home in the geology department of Brandon University.
“ Our latest recruit, yet to be named, will be a star attraction in the Faculty of Science for years to come,” said Dr. Austin Gulliver, the Dean of Science at BU.
This unique and rare gift from the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta is linked to another gift, one from the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Manitoba (APEGM).
BRANDON, MB — On behalf of the Government of Canada, the Honourable Tony Clement announced on Wednesday that $275.6 million has been invested in the Canada Research Chairs Program. This comes as the program marks its tenth anniversary.
BRANDON, MB – Brandon University alumnus, Tim Friesen has been conducting research at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) while working toward his PhD. He was a member of the international team that was able to trap antimatter atoms.
In the timeframe during which those atoms were captured, the scientists involved were able “to study their properties and see if they were very different than matter,” shared Makoto Fujiwara, the leader of the Canadian scientists, with cbc.ca.
BRANDON, MB – After playing four games on the road, the Bobcats men’s and women’s volleyball teams are happy to be playing at home this weekend. Both Bobcats teams are hosting the University of Calgary Dinos in their 2010-2011 home-opener on Friday, November 19. The women hit the court at 6 p.m.
BRANDON, MB – The faculty members of the philosophy department at Brandon University will host an event to mark the annual UNESCO World Philosophy Day, on November 25.
“I think the reason UNESCO created this is because they were convinced that philosophy has a particularly useful capability of building dialogue and it trains people to resolve conflicts and overcome problems through dialogue by peaceful means rather than by resorting to hardened positions, stubbornness and ultimately, violence and unending dispute,” said Dr. Steven Robinson, the chair of the Philosophy department at Brandon University.
He added that this specific day impresses upon philosophers, philosophy students as well as the general populace the importance of skills and training that enable peaceful resolution to conflict.
BRANDON, MB – This Friday is the Bobcats volleyball teams’ home-opener, and there’s no better way to kick off a sport’s season than by having a party.
The Bobcats and Brandon University Physical Education Club (BUPEC) will be hosting a tailgate party in the BU Gymnasium parking lot Friday starting at 5 p.m.
BRANDON, MB – The history of the Métis will be discussed during an upcoming conference entitled “From Pierre-Esprit Radisson to Louis Riel: voyageurs et Métis”. Along with colleagues from the Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, Université Laval, York University, University of British Columbia, Ottawa University, and the Centre du patrimoine de Saint-Boniface, several Brandon University faculty members will be collaborating to mark the 300th anniversary of Radisson’s passing as well as the 125th anniversary of Riel’s trial and hanging.
BRANDON, MB – This year’s writer-in-residence, Marilyn Dumont and others will give poetry readings on November 19. She will be joined by Professor Di Brandt — Brandon University’s Canada Research Chair in Literature and Creative Writing — Charles Leblanc, Delfy Martinez and Erica Ens. The works presented will be recited in either English, French, German, Plautdietsch and/or Spanish.
Of Cree and Métis heritage, Marilyn Dumont — a descendant of Gabriel Dumont — has won several awards for her work, which include the 2001 Writer’s Guild of Alberta Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry and the 2007 McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award.
BRANDON, MB – Hawkweed Literary Forum at Brandon University in conjunctions with Theatre Projects Manitoba present “Almighty Voice and His Wife” by acclaimed Ontario playwright Daniel David Moses, with direction by Michael Greyeyes, on the Evans Theatre stage next week.
The play tells the tale of a young couple — he is the historically significant Almighty Voice, a Saskatchewan Cree who was charged with killing a cow on Crown land in 1885, and she is his new wife.