BU honours Outstanding Women

BRANDON, MB – Every year throughout the world women celebrate International Women’s Week culminating with International Women’s Day on March 8. Steeped in a history of women’s struggles for equality, it has come to symbolize women’s efforts to shape a better world.

This year, the Brandon University Status of Women Committee has chosen to celebrate International Women’s Day by featuring the following outstanding female students on the BU web site. They have each been nominated by one of their professors.

Here are the following honourees:

• Melissa Anderson
• Reneta Angus
• Lisa Bahniuk
• Lisa Bridges
• Jenna Cameron
• Shannon Chapman
• Gemma Crouch
• Ashley Ewasiuk
• Megan Forrester
• Erin Froese
• Doris Gardiner
• Haley Hrymak
• Evie Kay
• Alysha Klippenstein
• Jess Lavallee
• Norma MacMillan
• Leann Murray
• Jill Norminton
• Tracy Parkes
• Linda Pic
• Shawna Prokopowich
• Stacy Senkbeil
• Natasha VanDamme
• Chava Weitzman
• Lisa Whitecloud
• Miranda Young

  Please visit these links to learn more about these remarkable women.

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  For more information, please contact: 

• Kathleen Nichol, Chair
• Status of Women Review Committee
• Brandon University
• P: (204) 727-9691
• nichol@brandonu.ca