Brandon University’s Rural Development Institute (RDI) is pleased to announce the three winners of the Rural by Design Student Art Contest. The winners are Lindsay Michiels, a second-year student in Physical Education; Kira Toth, a second-year student in Psychiatric Nursing; and Liam Shamray, a first-year student in Business Administration.
Month: June 2018
Brandon University and Assiniboine Community College are partners in a nation-wide project to increase community engagement, and a recent roundtable in Brandon has brought the community together to explore the opportunity.
The roundtable event, held May 22 at BU in partnership with Assiniboine, brought together more than 55 people to explore the assets, capacity, challenges and opportunities for campus–community engagement in Brandon.
The Brandon University community will be showing off all colours of the rainbow during Pride Week in Brandon, with all staff, faculty and students encouraged to take part in Pride activities.
At BU, members of the students’ union and the BU Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee will host a decorate-your-own Pride T-shirt activity in the courtyard (weather permitting) on Wednesday, June 13, from 11:30 a.m.
As one academic year concludes, Brandon University is already preparing for the start of another. Just days after the 2018 Convocation, the university is welcoming about 100 future students, as well as many parents and support people, to campus for a special pre-orientation event.
BRANDON – Brandon University (BU) professor Dr. Emily Holland recently opened the anthropology lab at BU to a group of students from Boissevain.
Visiting BU as part of their Grade 12 Biology class at Boissevain School, the students learned about identifying human remains, discerning a primate from a non-primate and how the environment can affect bone.
With the symbolic shift of a tassel from one side of their mortarboards to the other, nearly 600 Brandon University students became Brandon University graduates, receiving their degrees at today’s Convocation ceremonies. It was Brandon University’s largest graduating class in six years.