An extraordinarily influential music professor who passed away last fall will be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award, bestowed posthumously at Brandon University’s Spring Convocation later this month.
Professor William Gordon
Professor Gordon, known to so many as “Bill”, joined BU’s faculty in September 1970, retired from the full-time faculty at the end of 2013, and continued to teach university courses until 2020.
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Brandon University’s first major in-person event since the onset of the pandemic was a celebration of supporters to the BU Foundation, whose generous gifts support student and academic success.
More than 130 people gathered yesterday for the BU Foundation’s annual luncheon, hearing directly from some of the students their gifts helped support.
A longtime Brandon University library worker known for her devotion to information literacy, to supporting her colleagues, and to being there for the community, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at Brandon University’s Spring Convocation later this month.
Heather Coulter
Heather Coulter’s career as a specialized information literacy professional showed her tremendous commitment to equipping others for meaningful research, scholarly inquiry, and civic engagement, wrote colleagues who nominated her.
“Heather didn’t just work here, she shaped the workplace — and therefore the campus — for the better.
Brandon University pianist Megumi Masaki has been named to the Order of Manitoba.
Masaki is a pianist and music professor at Brandon University who is specially interested in exploring how sound, image, text and movement can be integrated in live multimedia performance and how the creative application of new technologies and approaches can expand how concert music is created and performed.
The Brandon University (BU) Department of Geology hosted more than 20 Grade 4 students from Earl Oxford School on Tuesday for a Geology Rocks! class visit.
Four community organizations will benefit from grants from the Gender and Women’s Studies (G&WS) program at Brandon University (BU) this year.
The G&WS program is providing $18,000 in funding through the Margaret Laurence Endowment Fund.
Brandon Chamber Players are pleased to continue celebrating the return to live music with their third concert of the 2021-22 season! Ricefall features pianist Everett Hopfner and local student musicians performing incredible works by contemporary composers.
Brandon University is continuing to safely re-open the campus in preparation for a fuller in-person experience this fall. The next step in our phased campus re-opening is Phase Gold, which will take effect as planned tomorrow (Friday, April 29) following the end of Winter Term.
Brandon University is committed to a safe and inclusive campus. Everyone has the right to an existence free of sexual assault, violence, and harassment.
Nicole Brasseur’s Bachelor of Fine Arts thesis exhibition is encouraging others to consider disabilities beyond those they can see.
An artist from southwestern Manitoba, Brasseur is a student in the IshKaabatens Waasa Gaa Inaabateg Department of Visual Art, centring her practice around mixed media sculpture and installations. Brasseur has been showing her exhibition, a chronic invisibilty, for the past week at the Glen P. Sutherland Gallery of Art. The exhibition focuses on her experiences with chronic pain.