Category: Brandon University

BRANDON, MB — The latest book by two of Brandon University’s own — Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell — has been nominated for the 2011 John W. Dafoe Prize. Their collaborative work entitled When the State Trembled: How A. J. Andrews and The Citizens’ Committee Broke The Winnipeg General Strike is one of the five books selected for the shortlist.

BRANDON, MB — Brandon University’s Canada Research Chair in English and Creative Writing, Professor Di Brandt’s new poetry collection, Walking to Mojacar, with French and Spanish translations by Charles Leblanc and Ari Belathar (Turnstone 2010) has been shortlisted for both the McNally Robinson Manitoba Best Book of the Year Award and the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher. The awards will be announced at a ceremony in Winnipeg on April 17.
Professor Brandt is the author of six poetry collections, including questions i asked my mother (1987), Agnes in the sky (1990), Jerusalem, beloved (1990), and Now You Care (2003).

BRANDON, MB – It’s been just a little over two weeks since the Bobcats men’s volleyball team won a silver medal at the CIS national championship tournament in Langley, BC, but that has not stopped head coach Russ Paddock from looking down the road at next season.
Paddock has signed his first recruit for the upcoming 2010-2011 season, but he did not have to look very far.
At a special signing ceremony Paddock announced local product D.J.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Dr. Robert Wrigley, of the Assiniboine Park Zoo, will be unable to deliver his lecture entitled “Biodiversity-Research Activities in Manitoba and the Assiniboine Park Zoo.” This was to have taken place on Friday, March 25, at 3 p.m., in room 3-42, Brodie Building.

BRANDON UNIVERSITY team earns top honours for environmental efforts
Local students named regional champions for work with city’s east
end community
Toronto, ON – Brandon University’s Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE)
team has been named the 2011 Scotiabank & SIFE Go Green Challenge
Regional Champion by national charitable organization Advancing Canadian
Entrepreneurship (ACE) and proud program supporter Scotiabank. SIFE is a
team based program that encourages post secondary students to address
relevant economic, social and environmental issues by empowering others
to improve their quality of life and standard of living.

BRANDON, MB — Dr. Robert Wrigley, of the Assiniboine Park Zoo, will be on hand Friday afternoon to present a talk entitled “Biodiversity-Research Activities in Manitoba and the Assiniboine Park Zoo.
The abstract for his talk is as follows:
“This presentation describes research on mammal communities in major biomes of Manitoba, and biodiversity-conservation activities at the Assiniboine Park Zoo. The mammal faunas of grasslands and tundra (both largely devoid of forest) were compared, revealing numerous similar ecological pairs. With a total Manitoba fauna of 89 species (including marine), 68 species were found in grassland and two transitional communities, while 42 occur in tundra and forest-tundra transition.