BRANDON, MB – A Brandon University (BU) professor has won a national screenwriting award for his original dramatic film script about efforts to stop a hydro-electric project.
Darrell Racine, Chair of the Department of Native Studies, captured the 2013 Praxis Feature Film Screenplay Competition, awarded annually to Canadian writers.
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BRANDON, MB – Brandon University (BU) is pleased to announce that Toronto-based Heathbridge Capital Management is committing $40,000 towards an endowment for music students, a fund which will swell to $100,000 using contributions from the Manitoba Scholarship & Bursary Initiative (MSBI).
The Heathbridge Capital Management Ltd. Scholarship in Jazz Studies was established in 2008 with a $10,000 gift from the company, matched through the University’s allocation of MSBI funds.
Back Row: (L-R) Tom Johnson, Peter Apedaile, Nelson Rogers,Heather Hall, LingLing Fan, Dianne Looker, Bill AshtonMiddle Row: Lori Gould, Ryan Gibson, Bill Reimer, Laura Ryser,Ray Bollman, Bruno JeanFront Sitting: Sara Teitelbaum, Anna Woodrow, Lana Sullivan,Fran ShaverMissing from photo: Judi Nelson Childs
Over 2 dozen people examined the impact over the last 10 years of the New Rural Economy project – NRE. Ten presentations analyzed and discussed fundamentals of governance, wealth creation, capacity building, and service delivery in rural communities.
Dr. Bill Reimer, the co-designer, motivator, and leader of the decade long NRE project wrapped up by underscoring the importance of ongoing research with the 32 rural communities – a national rural lab.
Dr. Bill Ashton from the Rural Development Institute along with Dr. Ray Bollman were pleased to host this NRE symposium, with the assistance of Lori Gould, a former NRE researcher.
BRANDON, MB – A top researcher at Brandon University (BU) hoping to cure devastating tropical diseases is getting help from a multi-billion dollar fund established by the co-founder of Microsoft.
Biology professor Dr. Bernadette Ardelli is a co-principal investigator with Dr. Robert Greenberg from Penn State in a project that will study tropical diseases including schistosomiasis and filariasis which, to date, lack effective vaccines.
BRANDON, MB – A Brandon University (BU) professor will be a keynote speaker at the first-ever international conference on spiritual tourism, the United Nations World Trade Organization (UNWTO) Spiritual Tourism for Sustainable Development, later this month in Viet Nam.
Dr. Daniel Olsen, Chair of BU’s Geography Department, is one of a handful of scholars in the world studying the links between tourism and spiritualism. Tourism, Religion and Spiritual Journeys, which he co-edited and released in 2006, has become the seminal book on this emerging sector.
James Allum, Minister of Education and Advanced Learning
BRANDON, MB – A new Master of Science degree will be offered at Brandon University (BU) beginning in 2014, benefitting student success and the economy in southwestern Manitoba. Minister of Education and Advanced Learning, James Allum, made the announcement today in a science lab on the BU campus.
Brandon University’s Healthy Living Centre (HLC) is profiled in a pair of television ads commissioned by Manitoba Hydro, to air on CBC, Global and YouTube.
The HLC, a state-of-the-art fitness and wellness centre which opened in November 2012, was designed to rigid environmental standards, earning a Silver rating under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), a buildings code reflecting resource efficiency that has been adopted in more than 30 countries around the world.
BRANDON, MB – A Brandon University (BU) history professor has put together a new book about a pre-war invasion in Africa with strong parallels to the colonization of First Nations people in Canada.
Collision of Empires: Italy’s Invasion of Ethiopia and its International Impact, recounts the last great European colonial conquest in Africa in 1935.
Sarah Plosker, Mathematics & Computer Science
When: Wednesday, November 6th, 2013 — 3:40 p.m, Slot 8
Where: Room 1-54, Brodie Building
Majorization is a basic concept in matrix theory that has found applications in numerous settings over the past century. Power majorization is a more specialized notion that has been studied in the theory of inequalities.
The following is an op-ed article submitted to the Brandon Sun newspaper by Brandon University President and Vice-Chancellor Deborah Poff, concerning the unauthorized access, discovered in mid-October, to the University’s computer network.
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