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Newly Funded Climate Literacy Research Calls on Teachers to Participate in National Networked Classroom

National Affordable Housing Study Expands with New Funding

October 16, 2025

As housing costs continue to rise across the country, Cape Breton University’s Dr. Catherine Leviten-Reid is at the forefront of…

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Fiona Iluyomade on Resilience, Representation, and a Future in Medicine

October 15, 2025

When Fiona Iluyomade began her Nursing journey at Cape Breton University, she was determined to make the most of every…

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Ivana Walcott Reconnects with Family Roots Through Nursing

October 15, 2025

When Ivana Walcott chose Cape Breton University, she was looking for more than academic advancement. Enrolling in the LPN to…

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From CBU Classrooms to Global Research: Dr. Yurij Salmaniw and Dr. Esther Abel Return Home

October 7, 2025

Cape Breton University Alumnus, Dr. Yurij Salmaniw, has recently been awarded the 2025 AARMS (Atlantic Association for Research in the…

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Students and Faculty Collaborate on Dominion Beach BioBlitz

October 6, 2025

CBU students and faculty from a range of courses, including the Bachelor of Arts and Science in Environment (BASE) Field…

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Early Detection Research at CBU Could Transform Skin Cancer Screening

September 23, 2025

Dr. Martin Mkandawire, a professor of chemistry at Cape Breton University, has dedicated his career and research to tackling pressing…

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Press Releases

CBU’s Dr. Tammy Bernasky Named Finalist for Accessibility Trailblazer Award

October 17, 2025

Cape Breton University is proud to share that Dr. Tammy Bernasky, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at CBU, has…

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Cape Breton University to Confer Honorary Degrees on two Cape Bretoners, Dr. David Kennedy and Mr. Donnie Campbell

October 17, 2025

On Wednesday, November 5, during the Fall Convocation ceremony, Cape Breton University will confer Doctor of Laws, honoris causa on…

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Cape Breton University to host a Community Open House for 2025

October 17, 2025

On Saturday, October 25, Cape Breton University will host Open House 2025, inviting future students, families, alumni and community members…

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Annette Verschuren to Conclude Historic 20-Year Tenure as Chancellor of CBU

October 7, 2025

Cape Breton University’s President & Vice-Chancellor, David Dingwall announced that Annette Verschuren, O.C., will conclude her tenure as Chancellor. After…

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Cape Breton University Launches Dominion Beach BioBlitz to Document Coastal Biodiversity and Climate Impacts

October 6, 2025

Students and faculty from Cape Breton University have launched the Dominion Beach BioBlitz, a collaborative effort to document biodiversity and…

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Shine Xu Zhang

Canada Research Chair (Tier ll) in Healthy Environments and Communities

Department: Chemistry

Phone: 902-563-1608

Expertise:

Nanomaterials and nanotechnology for environmental and health applications with focus on water treatment, cancer diagnostics and treatment

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Teena Campbell

Manager of Varsity Athletics and Communications

Department: Athletics and Recreation


Expertise:

Expertise: Physical education and sport/physical activity instruction. Interests: Coaching, promoting Active for Life activities in community and schools, sports and physical fitness

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Suzanne MacLeod

Registrar's Office Representative

Department: Registrar's Office

Phone: 902-563-1649

Expertise:

Areas of expertise: Grade Entry, Registrations and Add/Drops, Room Bookings, Government Reporting, Convocation, day-to-day interaction with students, staff/faculty and the general public

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Rebecca Jones

Assistant Professor

Department: Nursing

Phone: 902-574-1654

Office: A 231-G

Expertise:

Emergency/Critical Care Nursing, Forensic/Sexual Assault Nursing, Geriatric/Long Term Care Nursing, Palliative Care Nursing

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Michelle Jetha

Associate Professor, Psychology

Department: Psychology

Phone: 902-563-2814

Expertise:

Adolescent Brain Development, Adolescent Psychology, Child Development, Developmental Psychopathology (internalizing/externalizing behaviors), Schizophrenia, Emotion, Attention

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Matthew Keough

Enterprise Applications Systems Analyst

Department: IT Services


Expertise:

Skilled in designing user interface, developing websites, Photoshop design, debugging, web applications, and hardware. Technical skills include Hardware Diagnostics, Visual Basic, Java, JavaScript, C#, Objective-C, PHP, SQL, CSS, XML, XHTML, and HTML. Network management with hardware maintenance.

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Mary Keating

Assistant Profesor, English

Department: LiFTA

Phone: 902-563-1623

Expertise:

My research interests are in the fields of Renaissance Dramatic Literature and Renaissance Poetry, in particular the Renaissance sonnet sequence.

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Martin Mkandawire

Professor, Chemistry

Department: Chemistry

Phone: 902-563-1430

Expertise:

My research activities have been around mine water remediation and management with a goal to develop cost-effective strategies; and my research interests are, intra alia, in biophotonics and photochemistry of bio-compounds, development of devices with improved energetics using bio-inspire designs and bio-mimicked processes like improving energy conversion efficiency using bio-inspired design and architecture of devices in organic solar cell

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Leslie Wardley

Associate Professor of Marketing & SSHRC Exchange University Research Chair in Social Determinants of Health

Department: Organizational Management

Phone: 902-563-1176

Expertise:

Dr. Wardley�s research includes qualitative and quantitative scientific exploration of targeted consumers through identification of their preferences, motivations, and buying behaviours. Through these insights organizations are able to predict and possibly amend behaviour.

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Katie MacLeod

Program Development Consultant

Department: Cape Breton Medical Campus / Medicine


Expertise:

Indigenous-settler relations, Indigenous research ethics, and Acadian-Mi�kmaq relations, Acadian identities, Minority language retention, Acadian nationalism, ethnohistory, ethnography, qualitative research

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Judy MacInnis

Senior Lab Instructor and Transmission Electrron Microscope Tech

Department: Chemistry

Phone: 902-563-1876

Expertise:

analytical instrumentation, Transmission Electron Microscopy, science (chemistry) outreach

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Janice Tulk

Senior Research & Policy Advisor, Strategic Initiatives

Department: Office of the President

Phone: 902-563-1932

Expertise:

Mi’kmaw music, history, culture, and ways of knowing; Indigenous tourism development and economic reconciliation; industrial soundscapes and expressive culture; material culture, maker and DIY culture, and fibre arts in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

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Heather Sparling

Canada Research Chair in Musical Traditions and Professor of Ethnomusicology

Department: LiFTA

Phone: 902-563-1242

Expertise:

Nova Scotia Gaelic song; Cape Breton vernacular dance; Atlantic Canadian disaster songs; memorials; memorialization; language and music; language revitalization with music; genre

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Heather Schmidt

CTL Teaching Chair in Allyship & Decolonization; Assistant Profe

Department: Psychology

Phone: 902-563-1217

Expertise:

As a Community Psychologist, I use participatory action research, and other collaborative, decolonializing approaches to facilitate empowerment, inclusion and social justice for historically-marginalized communities such as L�nu / Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ+ post-secondary students, and individuals with mental health challenges.

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Emily MacLeod

Assistant Professor, Nursing

Department: Nursing

Phone: 902-563-1438

Expertise:

Sexual violence, sexual consent, access to and use of health services, determinants of health, health promotion

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Dennis York

Instructor, ICA

Department: Education


Expertise:

Evaluation of blended and online programs, learning engineering, engagement strategies and community building in digital learning environments, and the role of social media in facilitating online teaching and learning in postsecondary education.

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Dana Mount

Department: LiFTA


Expertise:

Environmental issues (cultural/political, not scientific), environmental humanities, postcolonial issues, world literature, gender.

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Chris McDonald

Dean, School of Arts & Social Sciences

Department: LiFTA

Phone: 902-563-1415

Expertise:

Popular Music, Atlantic Canadian Folk and Traditional Music, Social Class, Ethnomusicology, Music Theory

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Carolin Kreber

Professor in Education

Department: Education

Phone: 902-574-7585

Expertise:

Teaching and Learning in higher education; Transformative education; Higher Education and Society; internationalization of the curriculum; community-engaged learning and research; the scholarship of teaching and learning

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Bernard Farenkia

Professor, French and Linguistics

Department: Communication and Languages

Phone: 902-563-1870

Expertise:

Second / foreign language acquisition and Pedagogy, Interlanguage Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Language contact, Cross-cultural Pragmatics / Intercultural communication, Postcolonial linguistics, Variational Pragmatics, varieties of French, Translation, Linguistic politeness / Interpersonal communication, Academic discourse.

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