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January 16, 2012 posted January 16, 2012 BRANDON, MB — Dr. Jaelyn J. Eberle, of the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado, and Curator of Fossil Vertebrates at that University’s Museum of Natural History will be at Brandon University (BU), Friday, January 20 to talk about mammalian diversity in the early Eocene (55 to 34 [...]
January 9, 2012 posted January 9, 2012 Brandon, MB — The Brandon University School of Music’s pro series kicks off the 2012 portion of its concert offerings with TorQ, a Toronto-based percussion ensemble. This performance is one in many for the quartet, who are also playing throughout Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta this month. The ensemble members, Richard Burrows, [...]
December 20, 2011 posted December 20, 2011 Brandon, MB — The Brandon University Student Music Educators Association (BUSMEA) will be hosting its sixth annual Da Capo Conference. The Da Capo Conference is a one-day professional development event that includes workshops and seminars designed to enrich the learning of music educators. The Da Capo Conference will be held on [...]
December 19, 2011 posted December 19, 2011 Brandon, MB — Four Brandon University jazz students, whose principal instrument is the trombone, will have the opportunity to study with one of the jazz world’s greatest trombonists. In January, Jeffrey Acosta, Kena Olson, Neil Plumridge and Ryan Premack will start receiving bi-monthly lessons – via Skype – from Robin Eubanks. [...]
December 16, 2011 posted December 16, 2011 Brandon University Biologist, Students Study Arthropods at CFB Shilo Brandon, MB — For the past three summers, with funding from Defense Construction Canada (DCC), Brandon University Instructional Associate Bill Gallaway and two biology students worked in the field. Their study concentrated on arthropods, specifically the grasshopper and bee populations on the [...]
December 14, 2011 posted December 14, 2011 Brandon, MB — The 75 students in the Brandon University Chorale and the BU Concert Choir will be participating in the final Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s concert of 2011. The focus will be on G.F. Handel’s oratorio, Messiah HWV 56, a traditional favourite of the season. “This is a unique and incredible [...]
December 14, 2011 posted December 14, 2011 Brandon, MB — The Brandon flood of 2011 will be remembered by many in different ways. For pianist/bassist/composer Michael Cain, it was a time to focus on the creation of his latest disc entitled “Solo”. For this endeavour, he not only wrote the five cuts — Kammotion, Prayer, Gerald, The Question [...]
December 7, 2011 posted December 7, 2011 Brandon, MB — Two faculty members in the Faculty of Science — Dr. Pamela Rutherford and Dr. Terence McGonigle — will receive up to $200,000 for studies they are each undertaking. Dr. McGonigle is looking into the relationship between various environmental factors and leafy spurge, while Dr. Rutherford is investigating the [...]
December 7, 2011 posted December 7, 2011 BRANDON, MB — Brandon University student Jesse Plessis has won the 2012 Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region Emerging Composers Competition. His latest work for orchestra, Tender is the Night, is an elegy for a recently closed-down pub that he frequented during his undergraduate studies. “I think this competition is a wonderful [...]
Faculty Members Generate Interest in Manitoba Fossils
January 25, 2012 posted January 25, 2012 BRANDON, MB — Two members of the Brandon University geology department recently had some of their research published in the latest issue of Palaeoworld, a peer-reviewed international journal. This article has renewed worldwide interest in Manitoba fossils. The paper is entitled “Drilling Predation on Scaphopods and other Molluscs from the Upper [...]