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BRANDON, MB – Brandon University (BU) is pleased to announce that a Harvard educated financier, senior public sector manager and national expert on health systems has been appointed as Chancellor.
Michael Decter is President and CEO of the investment company LDIC Inc., author of eight books and popular lecturer with the National Speakers Bureau.

BRANDON, MB – Brandon University (BU) is pleased to announce a significant community contribution to the newly opened Healthy Living Centre.
Drs. Trudy Corbett and Jeff Bales have given $100,000 towards the completion of the 24.3 million dollar project, which opened to the public in January with construction to be completed this spring.

BRANDON, MB – Brandon University President and Vice-Chancellor Deborah Poff has been elected council member on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), an international resource network dedicated to the ethical publication of research in all academic fields.
Dr. Poff is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Academic Ethics; and Editor of the Journal of Business Ethics, ranked as an “A” journal by the Financial Times and Bloomberg.

Attention Entering Students:
The deadline for applying for the following awards has been extended to March 31, 2013:

Charles W. Burns Scholarship in Pre-Medicine
Donald Burns and Louise Berlin Family Scholarships in the Geosciences
John & Catherine Robbins Entrance Scholarships
Simplot Canada Ltd. Entrance Scholarships
Terry Penton Memorial Scholarship
E. Jay Watson Memorial Entrance Scholarship
Sarah Harriet Hall Memorial Academic Scholarships
IBEW Local 2034 – CFL Manitoba Council Commemorative Scholarship
G.F. MacDowell Entrance Scholarships in Political Science
Delamater-Wood 50th Anniversary Scholarship
Afghanistan Mission Memorial Awards

Also, the deadline for the Xerox Canada Award has been extended to May 10, 2013 because of a registration requirement.

BRANDON, MB – Three Brandon University (BU) alumni lived the musician’s dream last week, performing in New York City at prestigious Carnegie Hall.
Sarah Hallikas, Annelise Hawrylak and Mitchell Wedgewood appeared on the world renowned stage February 18th with the Toronto-based Eastminster United Church Choir, a 30 voice ensemble selected to take part in a musical production by Distinguished Concerts Singers International.

Photography by Colin Comeau, Brandon Sun
Article by Graeme Bruce, Brandon Sun

For the slew of workers who keep the Maple Leaf plant humming, or those students who chose Brandon University as their stomping grounds, the Chinese New Year celebrations remind Brandon’s growing Chinese community of home.
But three-year-old Tahlia Burton won’t have any memories of her birthplace in southern China.