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CAPERS Weekend Brings Alumni and Community Together

Dr. Carrie Karsgaard Recognized for Engaging Youth as Climate Keepers

October 10, 2024

When we talk about climate change, the challenge is not lost on future generations. As CBU’s Dr. Carrie Karsgaard points…

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Finding Your True Calling: Meet Kassandra Jabalee

October 9, 2024

As the saying goes, there’s no place like home. That’s a concept echoed by two-time CBU graduate and current Bachelor…

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Fabe-Ulous Milestone: CBU’s Women’s Basketball Coach Celebrates 25th Anniversary

October 7, 2024

The success of a coach, more often than not, is measured in wins and losses. But, although there have been…

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Cricket and Community: A Perfect Match at CAPERS Weekend

October 2, 2024

As cricket continues to grow in popularity across Canada, Cape Breton University is embracing the sport with open arms. What…

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Unblock the Clot – Raising Awareness with Janelle Tierney

October 2, 2024

After proudly wearing Capers soccer jerseys from the age of 10, soon-to-be CBU graduate, Janelle Tierney, made a childhood dream…

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Elevating the Game for All: Meet Jeremy Blom

October 1, 2024

The opening of the fully-renovated Canada Games Complex is fast-approaching and with it comes some new faces at the helm.…

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Press Releases

Cape Breton University Announces Inaugural Nancy Dingwall Award for Impact to Mitchell Mersereau

October 8, 2024

CBU is proud to announce Mitchell Mersereau, a standout athlete from the Men’s Basketball Team, has been awarded the inaugural…

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Cape Breton University Celebrates 20 Years of Global Education with Canadian International College in Egypt

October 7, 2024

Cape Breton University (CBU) celebrated two decades of global educational collaboration with Canadian International College (CIC) in Cairo, Egypt at…

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CBU’s CAPERS Weekend to Celebrate 50 Years of Athletics and Recreation

September 27, 2024

Cape Breton University invites the community to CAPERS Weekend, presented by Protocase, a signature event as part of CBU’s 50th…

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CBU Announces $1 Million Gift to the Forever CBU Campaign from Membertou, Clearwater and Premium Brands

September 26, 2024

Cape Breton University is thrilled to announce a 1$ million partnership gift to the Forever CBU campaign from Membertou, Clearwater…

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CBU to Confer Honorary Degree during CIC Convocation in Cairo, Egypt

September 25, 2024

Cape Breton University (CBU), in partnership with the Canadian International College (CIC) in Cairo, Egypt, is proud to announce that…

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Media Experts

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

Associate 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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