Dr. Christophe LeMoine has been appointed as Dean of Science at Brandon University (BU). Dr. LeMoine is currently full Professor in the Faculty of Science, where he has been a faculty member since 2015 and has served as Acting Dean of Science since January 2023.
Colleagues and friends are remembering Dr. Harvey Young for his kind manner, intellect and commitment to Brandon University (BU) after the passing of the Professor Emeritus and BU alumnus on Tuesday, May 9, at the age of 88.
The BU flag is being lowered to half-mast in his honour.
Dr. Young studied at Brandon College, graduating with his bachelor’s degree in Geology in 1955, and was a member of the College Caps hockey team.
Staff from the Westman Women’s Shelter received supplies from Brandon Universities’ faculties of Health Studies and Science on Wednesday to help the non-profit organization’s efforts to contain COVID-19.
The Faculty of Health Studies and the Faculty of Science at Brandon University (BU) have answered the call to assist the non-profit sector in Brandon.
The two faculties collected items to help with the containment of COVID-19 and delivered them to the Westman Women’s Shelter and Meredith Place on Wednesday.
BRANDON, MB – A senior administrator at Brandon University with strong connections to the military and police is honouring the solider killed on Parliament Hill in October, with a commemorative seat in the University’s gymnasium.
“Corporal Nathan Cirillo helps us to put a name and face to the thousands who don uniforms in Canada and the US to keep us safe,” says Dr. Andrew Egan, Dean of the Faculty of Science.
BRANDON, MB – A globally-recognized entrepreneur is returning to Brandon University (BU) this weekend to speak about his revolutionary new business venture in which citizens would be rewarded by the Canadian government for making healthy or responsible lifestyle choices.
Andreas Souvaliotis is an expert on social responsibility and a best-selling author who graduated from BU in 1984 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Science.
BRANDON, MB – Dr. Jim Parrott has known hardship. Raised in Oak Lake, MB, in the years following World War ll by a single mother on social assistance, he persevered to graduate from Brandon College (now Brandon University) in 1964, becoming a distinguished heart surgeon, medical teacher and politician.
BRANDON, MB – A biology professor at Brandon University (BU) is studying an organic farm in southern Manitoba to better understand the owners’ success, and pass along that knowledge to other organic growers.
Dr. Terence McGonigle says there is an increasing market demand for meats, vegetables and fruit produced through ecological methods without the use of synthetic fertilizers, synthetic pesticides or genetically modified organisms.
BRANDON, MB – Faster-than-light communications? The evolution of the universe?
BRANDON, MB – A prominent whale researcher will be the keynote speaker when geographers from across western Canada and North Dakota meet this weekend in Riding Mountain National Park.
Brandon University (BU) is playing host to the annual conference of the Prairie Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers (PCAG), with about 100 representatives from BU, University of Saskatchewan, University of Regina, University of Manitoba, University of Winnipeg, Lakehead University, and the University of North Dakota.
BRANDON, MB – Manitoba’s only lizard, the endangered northern prairie skink, will receive new protection thanks to efforts by a researcher from Brandon University (BU).
Dr. Pam Rutherford, Associate Professor in the Department of Biology, has convinced the Canadian Herpetological Society to designate Spruce Woods Provincial Park an Important Amphibian & Reptile Area.