Category: Brandon University
Friday, April 13, 2012
BRANDON, MB – Brandon University women’s volleyball coach Lee Carter has picked up another Manitoba recruit to add to next year’s crop of first year players.
Winnipeg product Kendra Bommersbach of Miles Macdonnell Collegiate has signed a letter of intent to join the Bobcats.
BRANDON, MB — Brandon University drama professor James Forsythe and his colleague, sessional instructor Gordon Portman are joining forces with local actors Blair Bolduc and Connor Lavell in “The Drawer Boy”, an award winning comedy/drama by Canadian playwright Michael Healey. This is also the latest offering by Forsythe’s theatre company Pet Projects Productions.
BRANDON, MB – A pair of fifth-year volleyball players have been named outstanding male and female athletes of the year for the Brandon University Bobcats. Jon Sloane of Winchester, Ontario was named the R.J.
BRANDON, MB –Brandon University Bobcats women’s basketball coach Novell Thomas will be hosting an open camp for female basketball players on April 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
BRANDON, MB — The students of the 4th year English course, “Imagining Manitoba,” taught by Dr. Di Brandt at Brandon University, have produced a multi-media display celebrating “Southwestern Manitoba: The Birthplace of the Modern Canadian Novel”. Their work will be exhibited in the Brandon College Alcove, on the second floor of BU Library.
March 28, 2012
BRANDON, MB — Dr. Alan Denton, of the Department of Physics, North Dakota State University, is the next lecturer in the Brandon University Science Seminar Series. On Friday, he will explain the “Stability of Nanomaterials: A Multiscale Modelling Approach”.
March 28, 2012
BRANDON, MB — Brandon University’s Dr. Wendy Untereiner and Dr. Mesfine Bogale are two of more than 140 authors of a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), one of the world’s top scientific journals. Their paper, entitled “Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi”, is a landmark contribution that establishes the internal transcribed spacer, one of six DNA regions evaluated, as a best genetic marker for identifying fungi.
March 16, 2012
BRANDON, MB – Brandon University is pleased to announce that Russ Paddock has been named Athletic Director of Brandon University effective immediately.
After spending the past nine months as acting Athletic Director, Paddock will now assume the role on a permanent basis.
March 16, 2012
Brandon, MB — The Rural Development Institute (RDI) has received renewed financial support from Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI). On hand to accept the cheque were Dr. Scott Grills, Vice-President Academic and Provost of Brandon University, Dr. William Ashton, Director of RDI and representing the provincial government was Drew Caldwell, MLA for Brandon East.