Category: Brandon University

Brandon, MB – Brandon University’s World University Service of Canada (WUSC) Club will be honoring World AIDS Day on Tuesday, December 1 with two events.
First, students at Brandon University will be holding an HIV/AIDS Vigil from 12:30-1:30 p.m.

BRANDON, MB – The Faculty of Arts at Brandon University is delighted to announce the inauguration of a nine-month Aboriginal Writer-in-Residency, generously co-sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts and Brandon University. This Residency will hopefully become an annual program, with a different featured author each year.

BRANDON, MB – MacLeans’s magazine has released their annual university rankings, Thursday, November 5, and Brandon University placed 13 out of 22 institutions in the in the primarily undergraduate category.
Brandon University’s relatively strong showing was supported by having the best student to faculty ratio in the nation and the smallest average class sizes.

BRANDON, MB – The Gender & Women’s Studies Program at Brandon University cordially invites the public and the press to attend the Queer History Colloquium on Wednesday, November 4, 2009. The event will be held in room 212 of Clark Hall.

BRANDON, MB – Brandon University is happy to receive $100,000 towards the funding of their “Building Welcoming Communities” project at the Rural Development Institute (RDI). The University will receive the money from Canada’s Rural Secretariat, Community Development Program, Building Rural and Northern Partnerships to conduct a study that will evaluate opportunities regarding immigration and how it relates to labour shortages.

BRANDON, MB – Pat Alvestad has been named the recipient of the of the President’s Award for the month of September 2009.
Before retiring from Brandon University on September 18, 2009, Pat Alvestad devoted 21 years to helping students, staff, and faculty move gracefully through the maze of rules, regulations, and processes.