Communications Office
Room 17, Clark Hall
270 - 18th Street
Brandon, Manitoba
R7A 6A9
Phone: (204) 727-9762
Email: communications@brandonu.ca
March 19, 2013 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. A [...]
March 4, 2013 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 [...]
February 25, 2013 BRANDON, MB – New student applications to Brandon University (BU) have jumped 20%, to the highest level in four years. Figures released today by BU’s Admissions Department show that 636 persons have applied to attend the University as new students beginning this fall. That compares to 528 in February 2012, 619 in 2011 and 567 [...]
January 28, 2013 Established in 1983, the Sarah Harriet Hall Memorial Academic Scholarships are provided annually to entering students who “have demonstrated academic excellence in high school as well as proficiency in extra-curricular activities.” Ms Hall was a graduate of Brandon College in 1921, and left a sizeable bequest to Brandon University to provide scholarships to deserving students. [...]
Newsman Lloyd Robertson Receives BU Degree
April 25, 2013 BRANDON, MB – Canada’s preeminent television journalist Lloyd Robertson will be given an honourary Doctor of Laws (honoris causa), during Convocation at Brandon University on May 31st, 2013. Robertson is one of the most trusted faces in TV news, spending 35 years as Chief Anchor and Senior Editor of the country’s most-watched national newscast, CTV [...]