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BRANDON, MB – The Rural Development Institute (RDI) at Brandon University (BU) today received $110,000 in funding from the Manitoba government, to assist in new community initiatives including a study of opportunities in Manitoba’s food processing industry.
RDI Director Dr. Bill Ashton, Dean of Arts Dr. Bruce Strang, and Drew Caldwell, MLA Brandon East
The installment is the third in a five-year, $545,000 funding agreement between RDI and Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (MAFRD).

BRANDON, MB – A Brandon University (BU) professor has published a new book that gives parents and teachers unpretentious and easy-to-follow help in teaching grammar and punctuation to people of all ages.
”I have been told that my approach is one-of-a-kind,” says Dr. Marion Terry, Department of Education-Graduate Studies, and author of Teaching Grammar and Punctuation in the Twenty-First Century.

BRANDON, MB – A chorale ensemble from Brandon University (BU) School of Music is en route to the Baltic countries of Latvia and Estonia, for a cross-cultural musical sharing with some of those countries’ most respected choir performers and conductors. The BU Chorale will also perform in historically significant venues, including the Niguliste Museum Concert Hall and Riga’s famed Cathedral, which both date back to the 13th century, and Estonia’s oldest and largest university, established in Tartu in 1632.

BRANDON, MB – Danbi Lee is carefully stitching together pieces of leather to make her own pair of moccasins, in a workshop on cultural awareness at Brandon University (BU). She aspires to be a banker and has travelled to Canada from her home in Jeonju, South Korea, to improve her language skills in BU’s English for Academic Purposes program (EAP)
Danbi Lee and Raj Vuth, EAP students
“Brandon is terribly cold,” she laughs, “but a good place to learn English because there aren’t many other Koreans here, so I am really using my new language skills.

BRANDON, MB – A long-running program that provides free expertise to Westman businesses is looking for new partners to assist in 2014.
The Business Innovation Zone (BIZ) pairs local merchants with fourth-year business students from Brandon University (BU), to develop solutions to challenges the businesses are facing.

Playing in the waters of Clear Lake, north of Brandon, left an indelible mark on Julia Redfern, who graduated this past spring from Brandon University with a major in Biology.
“Growing up, I have great memories of being at the lake,” she says.