Brandon University is exploring private developer options for an ambitious downtown development that could combine new student residences with seniors housing, a commercial component and academic spaces like a black box theatre.
At a meeting on Saturday, May 12, the Brandon University Board of Governors unanimously approved a motion resolving that BU invite discussions with private developers and that feasible proposals be presented to the board by the end of the year.
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About 150 donors, students, volunteers and friends celebrated the success of the Brandon University (BU) Foundation at its Annual Luncheon on Friday, May 11 at Harvest Hall, Brandon University.
The BU Foundation is charged with raising, stewarding and disbursing charitable donations to support the academic mission of Brandon University.
BRANDON – A Brandon University (BU) Master of Education student has become the second BU winner in three years of a prestigious national award recognizing an outstanding master’s thesis.
Ebenezer Duncan-Williams is the recipient of the Margaret Haughey Award for the best master’s thesis in Educational Administration, presented by the Canadian Association for the Study of Educational Administration.
The city’s two post-secondary institutions are teaming up to present a prominent speaker on Indigenous student success Monday evening.
Dr. Michelle Pidgeon is an educational expert and the Editor of the Canadian Journal of Higher Education.
BRANDON – A play written by Brandon University (BU) Professor James Forsythe was publicly performed for the first time recently in Montreal.
To Stand Again tells the story of Syrian families in Canada in their own words.
Areas that currently don’t have access to adequate mental health care will be receiving greater attention from researchers at Brandon University (BU) following the appointment of BU professor Dr. Rachel Herron as a Canada Research Chair (CRC).
Herron has been named the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Rural and Remote Mental Health, a five-year appointment that is accompanied by $500,000 in funding from the national CRC program.
Brandon University will give its 18th Street hedge a ‘haircut’ this spring, allowing for new green growth that will make the campus feature healthier, more attractive, and easier to prune in the future.
Sometime in the next couple of weeks, the hedge will be trimmed back to between six and eight inches in height, clearing out overgrown thickets, allowing for debris and thatch to be removed from underneath, and permitting fresh regrowth over the spring and summer.
Next week’s Digital Strategies for Musicians conference at Brandon University will include two free evening presentations that are open to the public. Sponsored by BU’s Institute for Research in Music and Community (IRMC), with support from the new Digital Strategy Fund at the Canada Council for the Arts, the conference is designed to assist musicians in better connecting with their audiences.
Two Brandon University Bachelor of Fine Art thesis students, with the support of the Department of Visual and Aboriginal Art, will be exhibiting their artwork in Winnipeg.
Jill Gervais and Jimmie Kilpatrick will be installing selections of their thesis exhibitions in Ace Art Inc’s Project Room from April 24 to May 4. A closing reception will also take place, on Friday May 4, from 7–10 p.m.
A report by the Rural Development Institute (RDI) at Brandon University (BU) is informing the work of the Manitoba Electoral Divisions Boundaries Commission.
As part of the Commission’s broad public consultation process, it contacted RDI to report on the state of rural and northern Manitoba.