With spring’s arrival, Brandon University is seeing more interest for use of the secure bicycle compound on campus. The bike compound is located at the southeast corner of Parking Lot 1, where McMaster Hall meets the Knowles Douglas Centre (just behind the white Geology building).
Following on a partnership with the Gender and Women’s Studies’ fall speaker series, the Brandon University Library continues to celebrate gender diversity in the Westman community, and is proudly presenting artist Wendy Friesen’s exhibit, Guitars, in the Tommy McLeod Curve Gallery. The Curve Gallery is located on the second floor of the John E. Robbins Library at BU and is free to view during library opening hours.
It is now easier for everyone to connect to secure wireless Internet on campus at Brandon University.
IT Services at BU has switched on new wi-fi networks that streamline your authentication, open up new options for guests, and will keep your connection secure.
A new book of collected essays co-edited by Dr. Allison McCulloch explores how power-sharing can support political peace using examples from across the global south.
Power-Sharing in the Global South: Patterns, Practices and Potentials includes 15 essays that offer individual case studies and comparative perspectives about the framework of power-sharing in places as varied as Colombia, Ethiopia, Lebanon and Malaysia.
Nearly two dozen students at Brandon University will present from their senior-level projects at a Colloquium on Monday, April 8.
Colloquium is the term for an academic meeting that discusses multiple topics, and is an apt title for this annual event, where student presentations embrace a broad diversity of subjects, from rail lines to rural broadband to radiographs to Riding Mountain National Park.
“There’s always something for everyone at the Colloquium, but I’m really impressed with this year’s lineup,” said co-organizer Dr. James Naylor, a history professor at BU, who noted that anyone, including members of the public, were invited to drop in at any point during the day, and to stay for as many presentations as they liked.
The Brandon University Board of Governors and the BU Faculty Association have each ratified a new four-year Collective Agreement.
The renewed deal covers April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2027.
When Brandon University (BU) student Rafael Palma learned he was going to be published in an anthology of Filipino-Canadian writing, he wasn’t sure if he could believe his good fortune.
“They put out an open call late in December of 2021, and with the overwhelm of entries, the expected call-back or notice that we didn’t get picked was pushed from January to April,” explained Palma, a fourth-year Bachelor of Fine Arts English major.
This week, bargaining teams from Brandon University and the BU Faculty Association reached a tentative agreement for a renewed Collective Agreement. This is wonderful news and our thanks go to the members of both bargaining teams, who have worked so hard to arrive at this milestone.
A Brandon University researcher known for his work on restoring peatlands is part of a team that has secured $1,466,449 in federal funding to look at polluted peatlands in northern Ontario.
Dr. Pete Whittington, Associate Professor of Geography & Environment at BU, joins Dr. Colin McCarter, Assistant Professor at Nipissing University and Canada Research Chair in Climate and Environmental Change, who was awarded an Alliance Missions Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada announced this month.
It’s a homecoming of sorts for Brandon University’s new Dean of Arts, who is returning to Manitoba after nearly 25 years away.
Dr. Gregory Kennedy is a specialist of early Canadian history, particularly the history of New France, Acadia, and the larger French Atlantic World.