| CMU News | |
 Jan 28, 2010 |
Menno Simons College Celebrates 20th Anniversary A respected leader in peace and conflict resolution and international development studies worldwide, CMU’s Menno Simons College (MSC) began its 3rd decade with expressions of gratitude and confidence at its 20th Anniversary Celebration. This special event was held November 12, 2010 at the West End Cultural Centre in Winnipeg. Read the full story... |
 Jan 24, 2010 |
‘Refreshing Winds' with Brian McLaren as keynote speaker Brian McLaren, one of evangelical Christianity’s most popular and provocative voices, will be the keynote speaker at CMU’s biennial music and worship conference this year. The title “Here in this Place,” reflects the conference’s focus on worship within the context of place and culture. “‘This place’ is many places, and any place on our planet, wherever people are open to being surprised by God’s presence. And wherever that place is, we are called to live our faith mindful of the culture in which we are located,” explains Abe Bergen, chair of the conference organizing committee. Read the full story... |
 Jan 18, 2010 |
CMU Launches New Bachelor of Business Administration Co-op Degree |
 Jan 14, 2010 |
CMU Welcomes Romand Coles for Politics-Themed Winter Lectures Series |
 Jan 6, 2010 |
CMU PRESS Publishes Favoured among Women by Hedy Leonora Martens |
 Nov 26, 2010 |
Canadian School of Peacebuilding Invites Renowned Instructors to 2011 Summer Program Now heading into its third year of operation, Canadian Mennonite University will hosts its Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP) summer program this June 6-24, offering international and local students the unique opportunity to study under renowned and revered members of the world peacekeeping community. Read the full story... |
 Nov 26, 2010 |
CMU Takes a “Hands-on” Approach in Communications and Media One of CMU’s more recent initiatives is its Communications and Media program, which made significant strides this fall when CMU introduced a media workshop program and opened its newly renovated media production space. Read the full story... |
 Nov 25, 2010 |
“Peace It Together” Conference Returns with Renewed Purpose after Sabbatical Year Youth and their leaders from across Canada will gather at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) in March 11 – 13, 2011 to discuss how each can bring their own “pieces of peace” to a world in need of healing, peace, and justice. Read the full story... |
Nov 25, 2010 |
Students Raise over $4K for Foreign Aid As a student body, Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) beat its goal of raising $4,000 for foreign aid through its 2010 Pearson Challenge by almost $300. CMU Student Council kicked off its annual Pearson Challenge October 25, 2010, encouraging students to make a difference in the global community by personally donating 0.7% of their tuition costs to foreign aid. Read the full story... |
 Nov 3, 2010 |
Establishes Pastor-in-Residence Program In 2010-201, CMU will benefit from a new student life program that brings a Pastor in Residence to CMU for a week during each of the fall and winter academic terms. Dan Unrau, lead pastor at Fraserview Mennonite Brethren Church in Richmond, served as CMU’s first Pastor in Residence, visiting CMU October 25 – 29, 2010. From February 7 -11, 2011, CMU will welcome Carol Penner, pastor at First Mennonite Church in Vineland, Ontario, to be CMU’s Pastor in Residence during the winter semester. Read the full story... |
 Oct 19, 2010 |
Belden C. Lane for 2010 J.J. Thiessen Lecture Series CMU welcomes Belden C. Lane, Professor of Theological Studies at Missouri’s Saint Louis University, as lecturer for the 33rd annual J.J. Thiessen Lecture Series October 19 and 20. Lane presents three lectures on the theme “From Desert Christians to Mountain Refugees: Fierce Landscapes and Counter-Cultural Spirituality ” – a theme that resonates in a province with vast stretches of rugged Canadian Shield country, an inland desert, powerful rivers, and harsh winters that render any landscape ‘fierce”. Read the full story... |
 Oct 14, 2010 |
Hosts Holiday Inn Airport-West Invitational
Men's Basketball Tourn Oct 14 - 16, 2010 The second-largest university men’s basketball tournament in Manitoba is happening this weekend – Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 14 to 16 – when Winnipeg’s Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) Blazers host the first annual Holiday Inn Airport-West Invitational. The tournament takes place in CMU’s Loewen Athletic Centre. Read the full story... |
 Sept 30, 2010 |
Menno Simons College And UWinnipeg’S Global College Co-Host International Peace And Justice Conference October 1-2, 2010 The Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA)’s 8th Annual Conference gets underway this October 1 and 2 in Winnipeg, with Menno Simons College and UWinnipeg’s Global College serving as co-hosts for this important international conference. Read the full story... |
 Sept 30, 2010 |
Presents Inaugural Blazer Distinguished Community Service Award to Altona Citizen Ted Friesen CMU presented its inaugural Blazer Distinguished Community Service Award on September 25, 2010 naming Altona citizen Ted Friesen as the first recipient. The award recognizes distinguished achievement and service within the broader community or church, through business, leadership, artistic, political, or volunteer contributions. Presentation of the award was held in conjunction with CMU’s President’s Dinner during annual Homecoming Events. Read the full story... |
Sept 22, 2010 |
International Peace & Justice Conference Welcomes Peacebuilders To Winnipeg October 1-2 The Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA), an organization headquartered in the United States and affiliated with the International Peace Research Association, will hold its 8th Annual Conference this October 1st and 2nd, with Menno Simons College and UWinnipeg’s Global College serving as hosts for this important international conference. This year’s conference, with its anticipated 350 participants, focuses on the theme, "Building Bridges, Crossing Borders: Gender, Identity, and Security in the Search for Peace." Read the full story... |
 Sept 9, 2010 |
CMU to Present Public Concert by Beloved Canadian Singer and Songwriter Bryan Moyer Suderman CMU is pleased to bring beloved Canadian singer and songwriter Bryan Moyer Suderman to CMU for a free public intergenerational concert on September 25, 2010 at 1:30 pm. This performance is offered as part of CMU’s broad range of homecoming and 10th Anniversary celebration events to which both the CMU family of alumni and friends and members of the broader community are most welcome to attend. Read the full story... |
 Sept 3, 2010 |
Governments Of Canada & Manitoba Complete First Knowledge Infrastructure Project In Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger, MP Steven Fletcher, Minister of State for Democratic Reform, and Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) President Dr. Gerald Gerbrandt today proudly opened CMU’s new science laboratory that will benefit students for many years to come. Read the full story... |
 Sept 3, 2010 |
John Brubachers speech from the opening of CMU's new Science Lab. University science departments today face many challenges, not least the call to teach more students with fewer staff, and less money. As a result, the pressure is on to cut costs and make efficient use of time…and laboratory components of classes represent some of the more expensive and labour-intensive aspects of science education. Since my days as an undergraduate student, there has been a gradual trend... Read the full speech... |
 July 26, 2010 |
CMU Press Author Dora Dueck To Give Reading In Steinbach Winnipeg author Dora Dueck will be reading and signing her second novel, This Hidden Thing, in Lichtenau Church at the Mennonite Heritage Village on Monday, August 2, at 1:30 pm. This Hidden Thing tells the story of Maria Klassen, a young Mennonite woman who has recently emigrated from Russia. She soon finds work as domestic for a wealthy English family in Winnipeg, while her family settles in the nearby town of Winkler. Read the full story... |
 July 21, 2010 |
HOT PURSUIT RIDERS POST RECORD TIMES, COMPLETE RACE ON JULY 21, 2010 Arvid Loewen posted a tremendous personal best over this race distance that saw him reach the perimeter of Winnipeg at 12:43 pm, a time that shaved 18 hours off of earlier rides. Loewen arrived downtown at the Legislature today at 1:45 pm, accompanied through town by a police escort and met by a large crowd of supporters and the other Hot Pursuit riders. Read the full story... |
 July 15, 2010 |
HOT PURSUIT RACE BEGINS SATURDAY, JULY 17 IN BC Arvid Loewen opens the race on July 17 at 7:00 am, with Team CMU leaving 24 hours later and Team WP leaving 27 hours later. The solo and team riders will cover 2330 kilometres in a round-the-clock race back to Winnipeg. The two Winnipeg pursuit teams will attempt to overtake Arvid Loewen, who is racing for the Mully Children’s Foundation. CMU’s team of five cyclists, made up of faculty members Chris Huebner and John Brubacher, along with Kevin Kilbrei, and alumni Craig Penner and Jon Guenter, will race from Vancouver to Winnipeg to raise money for international student financial support. Read the full story... |
 July 14, 2010 |
Hosts History Group with goal of “MAPPING THE PAGES” CMU recently hosted a meeting of a unique history research group comprised of scholars from the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Manitoba, and CMU. With a special project of “Mapping the Pages,” the group’s purpose is to bring to light the little-known, unknown, or otherwise surprising medieval and early modern books that are in Canadian Prairie collections, either public or private. Read the full story... |
 July 5, 2010 |
New Book From CMU Press Brings Radical Orthodoxy Into Dialogue With Radical Reformation Theology CMU PRESS is pleased to announce the publication of The Gift of Difference: Radical Orthodoxy, Radical Reformation edited by Chris K. Huebner and Tripp York. The Gift of Difference is a collection of essays in which theologians such as Craig Hovey, Harry J. Huebner, and D. Stephen Long consider the strengths and weaknesses of Radical Orthodoxy in dialogue with the Radical Reformation tradition. Writers in this volume engage topics such as ecclesiology, martyrdom, worship, oath-taking, peace and violence. Read the full story... |
 June 25, 2010 |
CMU Press Author Dora Dueck To Give Reading In Winkler Following the release of her second novel, This Hidden Thing, Winnipeg author Dora Dueck will be reading at the South Central Regional Library in Winkler on Tuesday, June 29, at 7:30 pm. “This book is of special interest to our area because part of the story is set in Winkler and provides insight into the experience of Mennonite families who emigrated from Russia,” says branch librarian Elaine Dyck. Read the full story... |
June 24, 2010 |
Hot Pursuit 2010 Media Advisory Training Race & News Conference June 28 8:00 am This summer (July 17-21), as a charitable fundraising event, Hot Pursuit 2010 will take ultra-marathon cyclist Arvid Loewen from White Rock, BC, to Winnipeg, MB, in under five days. He will be chased by pursuit relay teams leaving White Rock only 24 hours behind him. Four members of the Winnipeg Police Service and five professors and alumni from Canadian Mennonite University will race after him in the ultimate HOT PURSUIT. Read the full story... |
June 18, 2010 |
Welcomes Denominational Leaders Jack Suderman And David Wiebe CMU today welcomed well respected denominational leaders on campus as part of its ongoing commitment to maintain vital relationships with two church bodies, Mennonite Church Canada and the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. 2010 marks significant leadership transitions within both denominations. Read the full story... |
 June 18, 2010 |
Shaftesbury Campus, Menno Simons College, and Outtatown Celebrated the Accomplishments of 219 Graduates and Program Participants In April, CMU celebrated the graduation of 95 students at its Shaftesbury campus and, last week, recognized 60 graduates in Conflict Resolution Studies and International Development Studies at its Menno Simons College, located in downtown Winnipeg at The University of Winnipeg. Read the full story... |
 June 9, 2010 |
Canadian School of Peacebuilding Welcomes Renowned Instructors to Campus for Week Two The second session of CMU Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP), running June 21 to June 25, will feature three renowned instructors, each to teach a weeklong intensive course that will shed further light on the issues surrounding peace, justice, and conflict resolution. . Read the full story... |
May 27, 2010 |
Commemorates 150th Anniversary of Mennonite Denominations with Joint Gathering & Worship Service This year marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of two major Anabaptist bodies, the Mennonite Brethren Church in the Ukraine, and the General Conference Mennonite Church in the USA. To help celebrate this important landmark, CMU will host an all day story-telling session on June 5, 2010 on campus, followed by an evening worship service, open to all, at Winnipeg’s Portage Avenue Church. Read the full story... |
 May 27, 2010 |
International & Local Peacekeepers to Teach in June 2010 CSOP this year welcomes 12 instructors ready to share insights and perspectives at CSOP’s summer program, through its eight one-week intensive courses for professional development and academic credit. Applications in hand to date represent interested individuals from over 30 countries. Read the full story... |
 May 6 2010 |
CMU Press publishes novel by Dora Dueck CMU PRESS is pleased to announce the publication of a new novel by Dora Dueck, This Hidden Thing. The book will be officially launched on May 19, 8 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers. Read the full story... |
 May 6, 2010 |
Hosts 2nd Annual Canadian School of Peacebuilding CMU, realizing a dream a year earlier when it established its first Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP), will hold its second annual Canadian School of Peacebuilding in Winnipeg at its south Winnipeg campus, June 14 - July 2, 2010. Read the full story... |
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