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Cape Breton University and Dalhousie are excited to be collaborating on the development of a joint medical campus for Cape…
Sunday, January 22, 2023, marked the beginning of Lunar New Year, a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new…
After several challenging years of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022 brought a renewed sense of potential, togetherness and excitement. This year…
Dr. Bettina Callary has been making waves in Cape Breton during the past two summers. While winter is on its…
Derrick Hayes is a familiar face to most on campus, wearing many hats over the course of his decades-long association…
An interest in using technology to improve society is what led Dr. Ronnie E. de Souza Santos to join CBU’s…
Cape Breton University is excited to announce Ellen Furey as the University’s 2023 Artist in Residence. Furey’s artistic path began…
In recent years, the Covid-19 pandemic was challenging on all of us. None, more so, than the men and women…
Cape Breton University recently celebrated the life and contributions of long-time employee Yvonne LeVert with a student-led special event that…
Cape Breton University’s Boardmore Theatre presents William Shakespeare’s Macbeth November 24-27, 2022. This year’s production of Macbeth is the Theatre’s…
Cape Breton University (CBU) and Destination Cape Breton Association (DCBA) have undertaken a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the spirit…
Department: Chemistry
Phone:
902-563-1608
Email: Xu_Zhang@cbu.ca
Nanomaterials and nanotechnology for environmental and health applications with focus on water treatment, cancer diagnostics and treatment
Department: University Relations
Phone:
902-317-4420
Email: Victor_Tomiczek@cbu.ca
International Education
Department: Nursing
Phone:
902-563-1455
Email: Tracy_Lillington@cbu.ca
Area of expertise include nursing clinical practice in the areas of : wound/ostomy/footcare/surgical and emergency practice.
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1226
Email: tom_urbaniak@cbu.ca
Canadian Politics, Public Policy, Economic Development, Municipal Politics, Polonia (Polish communities outside Poland)
Department: Literature, Folklore and the Arts
Phone:
902-563-1616
Email: Todd_Pettigrew@cbu.ca
Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, History of Medicine, History of Debt
Department: Biology
Phone:
902-563-1138
Email: Timothy_Rawlings@cbu.ca
Invertebrate zoology, Evolutionary ecology, Molecular ecology, Marine ecology
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1224
Email: Theresa_Corsano@cbu.ca
Areas of Expertise or Research Interests: Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Well Being, Workplace Stress and Job Burnout.
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1274
Email: terry_gibbs@cbu.ca
Critical globalization studies, social justice, global citizenship.
Department: Athletics and Recreation
Phone:
902-578-4158
Email: Teena_Campbell@cbu.ca
Expertise: Physical education and sport/physical activity instruction. Interests: Coaching, promoting Active for Life activities in community and schools, sports and physical fitness
Department: Office of Registrar and Admissions
Phone:
902-563-1117
Email: Tanya_Andrews@cbu.ca
Community Economic Development, Non-profit organization, Social Enterprise
Department: Registrar's Office
Phone:
902-563-1649
Email: Suzanne_MacLeod@cbu.ca
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
Department: Chemistry
Phone:
902-563-1302
Email: Stephanie_MacQuarrie@cbu.ca
Biochar, Materials Chemistry, Biomass Conversion, Isolation of High Value Products from Biomass, Catalysis, Functional Materials.
Department: Shannon School of Business
Phone:
902-563-1992
Email: Stephanie_MacPherson@cbu.ca
Sustainable tourism, destination management, tourism operations planning and management, event management
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1926
Email: Stephanie_Gilbert@cbu.ca
Occupational stress, employee health and well-being, organizational leadership, and motivation at work.
Department: Education
Phone:
902-883-1206
Email: Sonya_Singer@cbu.ca
Literacy Education, Social Justice, Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Learning
Department: Literature, Folklore and the Arts
Phone:
902-563-1156
Email: Sheila_Christie@cbu.ca
Medieval drama, literature, and culture, archival research; dramatic literature; fan fiction; applied theatre, theatre for social change, stage management, stage craft, directing
Department: Financial and Information Management
Finance, Investments, ESG, Entrepreneurship, Machine Learning
Department: Humanities
Phone:
902-563-1252
Email: Scott_Stewart@cbu.ca
Philosophy of Love and Sex; Applied Ethics; Philosophy and Literature; Ethics
Department: Education
Phone:
902-563-1339
Email: Sandra_Jack-Malik@cbu.ca
dyslexia, reflective practice, settler ally, narrative inquiry and currere
Department: Financial and Information Management
Phone:
902-563-1178
Email: Sahand_Ashtab@cbu.ca
Short Food Supply Chains, Circular Economy, and Closed Loop Supply Chains
Department: Humanities
Phone:
902-563-1268
Email: Rod_Nicholls@cbu.ca
Continental Philosophy, Theatre Aesthetics, Spirituality and the Meaning of Life
Department: Nursing
Phone:
902-563-1884
Email: Rebecca_Jones@cbu.ca
Office: A 231-C
Emergency/Critical Care Nursing, Forensic/Sexual Assault Nursing, Geriatric/Long Term Care Nursing, Palliative Care Nursing
Department: Psychology
Phone:
902-563-1315
Email: Peter_MacIntyre@cbu.ca
Positive Psychology; Motivation; Emotion; Anxiety; Second Language Acquisition
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1161
Email: Peter_Kerr@cbu.ca
Marketing, Sales Management, Performance Measurement
Department: Education
Phone:
902-563-1300
Email: Patrick_Howard@cbu.ca
teacher education; education for sustainability; literacy education; digital media; phenomenological research methods
Department: Management Information Systems
Phone:
902-563-1185
Email: Patricia_Morrison@cbu.ca
MIS
Department: Student Affairs
Phone:
902-563-1818
Email: Nadine_Ratchford@cbu.ca
Career Services, Career Development, Job Search
Department: Psychology
Phone:
902-563-2814
Email: Michelle_Jetha@cbu.ca
Adolescent Brain Development, Adolescent Psychology, Child Development, Developmental Psychopathology (internalizing/externalizing behaviors), Schizophrenia, Emotion, Attention
Department: Engineering
Phone:
902-563-1879
Email: Melissa_Deane@cbu.ca
Areas of expertise include Power Transmission and Distribution, Electronics
Department: Chemistry
Phone:
902-563-1391
Email: matthias_bierenstiel@cbu.ca
Chemistry, natural products, applied chemistry, health medicine, industrial processes, bio-products
Department: IT Services
Email: Matthew_Keough@cbu.ca
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.
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1321
Email: Marybeth_Doucette@cbu.ca
Decolonization, reconciliation, business education, two-eyed seeing, Etuaptmumk
Department: Literature, Folklore and the Arts
Phone:
902-563-1623
Email: Mary_Keating@cbu.ca
My research interests are in the fields of Renaissance Dramatic Literature and Renaissance Poetry, in particular the Renaissance sonnet sequence.
Department: Chemistry
Phone:
902-563-1430
Email: Martin_Mkandawire@cbu.ca
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
Department: Health Sciences
Phone:
902-563-1846
Email: Lyndsay_Best@cbu.ca
Microbiology
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Email: lloyd_white@cbu.ca
Areas of Interest include Sociology of Deviance and Crime, Sociology of the Family, Canadian Society, Sociology of Sport and Sociology of Religion.
Department: Nursing
Phone:
902-563-1963
Email: Lilla_Roy@cbu.ca
Epidemiology, quality of life measurement, patient preference and value measurement, choice experiments, health economics, health technology assessment, priority setting in health care
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1176
Email: Leslie_Wardley@cbu.ca
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.
Department: Student Affairs
Phone:
902-563-1433
Email: Leslie_MacIsaac@cbu.ca
loves the beaches in Cape Breton, pets, playing darts , and is proud to be working at Cape Breton University as an CBU Alumni!
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1626
Email: LeeAnne_Broadhead@cbu.ca
International Relations, Environmental Politics, International Political Economy
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1923
Email: Kevin_McKague@cbu.ca
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Social Enterprise, Inclusive Markets, Social Franchising
Department: Biology
Phone:
902-563-1667
Email: Ken_Oakes@cbu.ca
Finfish and shellfish husbandry, water treatment, reactive oxygen species, environmental remediation
Department: Office of Research and Graduate Studies
Email: Katie_MacLeod@cbu.ca
Indigenous-settler relations, Indigenous research ethics, and Acadian-Mi�kmaq relations, Acadian identities, Minority language retention, Acadian nationalism, ethnohistory, ethnography, qualitative research
Department: Biology
Phone:
902-563-1969
Email: Kathryn_MacIntosh@cbu.ca
Area of expertise: teaching techniques incorporating experiential learning, fish behaviour, parasites of wildlife
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1255
Email: Kate_Krug@cbu.ca
Sociology of Education, Sociological Theory, Queer Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Critical Pedagogy, Sociology of the Family
Department: Nursing
Email: Karen_Kennedy@cbu.ca
Sexual Violence, Curriculum
Department: School of Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry
Phone:
902-563-1876
Email: Judy_MacInnis@cbu.ca
analytical instrumentation, Transmission Electron Microscopy, science (chemistry) outreach
Department: Nancy Dingwall Health and Counselling Centre
Phone:
902-563-1359
Email: Judy_Kelley@cbu.ca
Registered Nurse
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1256
Email: joseph_parish@cbu.ca
medical anthropology, historical epidemiology, socio-cultural determinants of disease, bioarchaeology, palaeopathology, 18th century, 19th century, forensic anthropology
Department: Student Affairs
Phone:
902-563-2815
Email: John_Mayich@cbu.ca
Student Affairs
Department: Health Sciences
Phone:
902-563-1846
Email: John_MacMillan@cbu.ca
Occupational Hygiene, Risk Management and Organizational Health and Safety
Department: Humanities
Phone:
902-563-1238
Email: jim_gerrie@cbu.ca
Technology, religion, ethics, media, software studies
Department: Strategic Communications and Events
Phone:
902-322-0786
Email: Jill_Ellsworth@cbu.ca
Social Media, Brand Journalism,
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1336
Email: Jennifer_Currie@cbu.ca
Event Management and Business Communication
Department: Office of the President
Phone:
902-563-1932
Email: Janice_Tulk@cbu.ca
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
Department: Math, Physics and Geology
Phone:
902-563-1181
Email: James_Preen@cbu.ca
Graph Theory; algebra and structures. Regularity, distance and polynomials.
Department: Health Sciences
Phone:
902-563-1206
Email: Helen_Mersereau@cbu.ca
Risk communication, occupational hygiene, health risk assessment, occupational health and safety.
Department: Literature, Folklore and the Arts
Phone:
902-563-1242
Email: heather_sparling@cbu.ca
Nova Scotia Gaelic song; Cape Breton vernacular dance; Atlantic Canadian disaster songs; memorials; memorialization; language and music; language revitalization with music; genre
Department: Psychology
Phone:
902-563-1217
Email: Heather_Schmidt@cbu.ca
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.
Department: Chemistry
Phone:
902-563-1967
Email: Godwin_Dcunha@cbu.ca
Fundamental and Applied Enzymology, Protein Chemistry, Biochemical Techniques and Instrumentation
Department: Psychology
Phone:
902-563-1237
Email: Geraldine_Carlin@cbu.ca
areas of interest are mental health and weight bias and discrimination
Department: Literature, Folklore and the Arts
Email: Gerald_Pocius@cbu.ca
folklore, material culture, vernacular architecture, cultural landscapes, museums and historic sites
Department: Psychology
Phone:
902-563-1451
Email: Geoff_Carre@cbu.ca
Effects of nature exposure on cognition and mental health: physiological underpinnings
Department: Communication and Languages
Phone:
902-563-1234
Email: Felix_Odartey@cbu.ca
corporate communication, race and media, news and public affairs, as well as communications law and policy
Department: Financial and Information Management
Email: Enayat_Rajabi@cbu.ca
Data Analytics, Semantic Web, and Knowledge Management
Department: Nursing
Phone:
902-563-1438
Sexual violence, sexual consent, access to and use of health services, determinants of health, health promotion
Department: Student Affairs
Phone:
902-563-1278
Email: Donalda_Johnston@cbu.ca
Immigration
Department: Financial and Information Management
Phone:
902-563-1312
Email: Derrick_Hayes@cbu.ca
Primary area of research is in community economic development and not-for-profit activities in Cape Breton
Department: Education
Email: Dennis_York@cbu.ca
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.
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1213
Email: David_Johnson@cbu.ca
Canadian Government and Politics, Canadian Public Administration and Public Policy, the Canadian Constitution, the Monarchy in Canada
Department: Biology
Phone:
902-574-1547
Email: David_McCorquodale@cbu.ca
Species at risk in Canada, beetles, bees; Changes in bird populations
Department: Literature, Folklore and the Arts (LiFTA)
Email: Dana_Mount@cbu.ca
Environmental issues (cultural/political, not scientific), environmental humanities, postcolonial issues, world literature, gender.
Department: Chemistry
Email: Collins_Nganou@cbu.ca
Reactive nanomaterial for water splitting and photocatalyst,
Department: Nursing
Phone:
902-563-1961
Email: Claudette_Taylor@cbu.ca
Palliative Care, Oncology Care, Symptom Management Cancer Patients, Nurse Practitioner
Department: Literature, Folklore and the Arts
Phone:
902-563-1415
Email: chris_mcdonald@cbu.ca
Popular Music, Atlantic Canadian Folk and Traditional Music, Social Class, Ethnomusicology, Music Theory
Department: Chemistry
Phone:
902-956-0789
Email: Chigozie_Okolie@cbu.ca
Chemistry, Biochemistry, Magnetic nanoparticles
Department: Biology
Phone:
902-563-1814
Email: chantelle_cormier@cbu.ca
Forensic Entomology; Science Outreach
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1661
Email: Catherine_Leviten-Reid@cbu.ca
affordable housing, community development, non-profit organizations
Department: Library
Phone:
902-563-1348
Email: caroline_power@cbu.ca
Serial aquisitions
Department: Education
Phone:
902-563-1672
Email: Carolin_Kreber@cbu.ca
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
Department: Biology
Phone:
902-563-1988
Email: bruce_hatcher@cbu.ca
Marine Ecology, Oceanography, Climate Change Adaptation
Department: Enrolment Services
Phone:
902-563-1432
Email: Bilynda_Whiting@cbu.ca
Student Retention and Persistence
Department: Experiential Studies in Community and Sport
Phone:
902-563-1452
Email: Bettina_Callary@cbu.ca
Sport coaching, coach development, adult learning
Department: Health Sciences
Phone:
902-563-1293
Email: Bernard_MacLennan@cbu.ca
Infectious disease, food safety, food quality, general microbiology
Department: Communication and Languages
Phone:
902-563-1870
Email: bernard_farenkia@cbu.ca
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.
Department: Registrar's Office
Phone:
902-563-1646
Email: Barbara_Kennedy@cbu.ca
Area of Expertise: Student degree audits, Convocation, and Academic Calendar.
Department: Humanities
Phone:
902-563-1354
Email: Andy_Parnaby@cbu.ca
Canadian politics and current affairs, Cape Breton history and culture, Cape Breton University
Department: Humanities
Phone:
902-563-1301
Email: Andrew_Reynolds@cbu.ca
History and philosophy of science, especially cell biology and evolution
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1858
Email: Andrew_Molloy@cbu.ca
Public Policy and Public Administration, Canadian Government and Politics, Community Economic Development
Department: Engineering
Phone:
902-563-1844
Email: Allison_Mackie@cbu.ca
Drinking Water and Industrial Wastewater Treatment, Reuse of Industrial By-Products, Detection and Treatment of Emerging Organic Contaminants
Department: Marketing and Communications
Phone:
902-563-1200
Email: Alanna_MacQueen@cbu.ca
Department: Finance
Phone:
902-563-1887
Email: Aaron_MacDonald@cbu.ca
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