BRANDON, MB – On Sunday, February 6, students currently enrolled in professional programs in Winnipeg post-secondary institutions will be descending upon Brandon University to share some insights with approximately 30 undergraduates. During the day, the visiting students, some of them Brandon Univesity alumni, will help prepare the undergraduates for the interview process which they will have to undergo when they apply for admission to various biomedical professional schools, like medicine, dentistry, optometry, veterinary studies, pharmacy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, pathology assistant or graduate school.
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BRANDON, MB – On Saturday, February 12, the Brandon University Chinese Students and Scholars’ Association (BUCSSA) will host a Chinese New Year celebration at Knox United Church. The celebration will begin at 6 p.m.
BRANDON, MB — The Brandon University Disaster and Emergency Student Society (DESS) and Politics Society (BUPS) are hosting a lecture featuring Gwynne Dyer on February 17, at 7 p.m., at the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium.
Join the students in the School of Music’s Opera Workshop Class for “SONDHEIM TWO BY TWO (and then some)”, a selection of scenes by renowned Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.
The performance will feature excerpts from some of Sondheim’s greatest works – “Anyone Can Whistle”, “Company”, “Sweeney Todd”, “Sunday in the Park with George” and “Into the Woods”.
BRANDON, MB — Last week, the new Cisco TelePresence room at Brandon University, located in the Faculty of Education, was officially unveiled with Dr. Deborah Poff, President of Brandon University, collaborating in a four-way technologically supported event with colleagues at the University of Winnipeg and at the University College of the North, in The Pas, as well as with Nitin Kawale, the President of Cisco Canada, who was in Toronto.
Others who took part in this hour-long virtual conference-call were Manitoba’s Premiere Greg Selinger, the Honourable Lynne Yelich, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, Dr.Lloyd Axworthy, University of Winnipeg President, and Dr. Kathryn McNaughton, Vice-President (Academic & Research) of University College of the North.
WestCAST is the annual conference for the Western Canadian Association of Student Teachers. The next edition will be held from February 23 to 26, 2011.
Brandon, MB — Dr. Adam Scarfe, of the University of Winnipeg, will give a talk entitled “An Evolutionary Spin on Causation in Hume, Kant and Hegel”.
This event is open to the public and will take place on Friday, January 28, at 2:30 p.m.
BRANDON, MB — After sifting through the more than 100 entries submitted by Kindergarten to Grade 6 students from many Manitoba communities, a panel of five judges decided upon “Jerome” for the new Dromaeosaurus. The name was submitted by École Harrison Grade 2 student Sydney Manko.
BRANDON, MB — On January 20, there will be a Brandon launch for the newly released book entitled “Manitoba Politics and Government: Issues, Institutions, Traditions”, edited by Paul Thomas and Curtis Brown. On hand for the event will be one of the contributors, Brandon University Assistant Professor Kelly Saunders of the Department of Political Studies, as well as Brown.
BRANDON, MB — Dr. William Ashton, the director of the Rural Development Institute, is pleased to award a $3,000 Student Internship to two Brandon University Applied Disaster Emergency Studies students, Sarah Delisle and Yi Victor Wang.
Under the direction of Dr. Balfour Spence, chair of ADES, these students will prepare a case study titled: “Rural Vulnerabilities related to atypical precipitation: Assiniboine Valley Case Study”.