Last year’s BIRT Cup raised six figures!
An important date on the Bobcat calendar is coming up on July 4 at Wheat City Golf Course.
Section: Community Engagement
The Clear Lake Chamber Music Festival warmly invites music lovers to an enchanting evening of classical brilliance, featuring pianist Daniel Tselyakov, joined by guest artists Ariel Carrabré (cello) and Alexander Tselyakov (piano).
The program opens with Johannes Brahms’s Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38, a lyrical masterpiece and cornerstone of the cello repertoire.
Candice Waddell-Henowitch was in Quebec City for meetings when she was shocked to hear her name being called to the stage.
An associate professor in BU’s Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Dr. Waddell-Henowitch was in Quebec to attend the national members meeting of the YWCA; she’s outgoing president of YWCA Westman, a role she held for three years, and is now a member of the YWCA Canada board.
A massive new BU Bobcats logo greets visitors at the entrance to the Brandon University Healthy Living Centre. Painted directly on the asphalt in the intersection at 20th Street and Louise Avenue, the new logo was freshly installed just in time for Convocation.
Two Brandon University psychiatric nursing students tasked with making a community health promotional video say they got as much out of the assignment as any viewer will.
“This project has changed the way I think about psychiatric nursing in many ways,” said third-year student Kim Harrison, adding that she hadn’t realized how little the general public understood about psychiatric nursing before starting a project to better explain it.
“I also realized that when working on a community project like this, there is no official end,” she said.
Brandon University is thrilled to announce that the recent U SPORTS Men’s Volleyball National Championship, presented by Sunrise Credit Union, hosted at an electricity-filled, sold-out Healthy Living Centre, was not only a win on the court but an even bigger one for our community. While the moment truly felt like a million bucks, the event has firmly etched itself as one of the most successful national competitions ever staged in Brandon, injecting an incredible $1.05 million into the local economy.
Some of Brandon University’s most committed supporters were recognized with heartfelt praises at the annual BU Foundation luncheon last week.
Donors to the BU Foundation heard directly from students who had felt the impact of their support, as well as from BU breast cancer researcher Dr. Mousumi Majumder.
Brandon University held its first Breast Cancer Awareness Walk on Thursday, May 8 at noon in the Kavanagh Courtyard.b
Family gift earmarked to replace protective dome
Brandon University’s observatory has a new name.
The rooftop facility, long a beacon for stargazers in western Manitoba, will now be known as the Gulliver Astronomical Observatory, following a generous $50,000 donation from the family of BU astronomy professor Dr. Austin Gulliver.
You’re invited to a community celebration! Brandon University will host a parade and rally to celebrate the BU Bobcats’ historic victory at the 2025 National Volleyball Championship.