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Teal to Heal for Ovarian Cancer: Meet Dena Edwards Wadden

Dr. Lynn LeVatte: Promoting Inclusion and Accessibility at CBU and Beyond

June 1, 2023

  May 28-June 3, 2023 is National Access Ability Week in Canada and we’d like to highlight a dedicated CBU…

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Uniting Cape Breton’s Youth: Doctors Nova Scotia Youth Run Returns to CBU

May 26, 2023

In 2005, alongside the inception of the Cape Breton Fiddlers Marathon, the Doctors Nova Scotia Youth Run emerged as a…

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A Pursuit Of Childhood Dreams: Meet Abe Chidiac

May 26, 2023

Childhood dreams may not always come true, but when they do, they mean something extra special. Abe Chidiac is one…

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Program to Support Intergenerational Connections for Healthy Aging

May 23, 2023

Cape Breton University continues to explore opportunities to build partnerships for healthy communities with a new project to engage older…

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The Feeling of Home: Meet Erica MacNeil

May 16, 2023

In 2020, Erica MacNeil transferred from Acadia University to Cape Breton University after moving home from Wolfville during the COVID-19…

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One Step Closer: Meet Chloe Stewart

May 16, 2023

With each step Chloe Stewart takes while crossing the stage at this year’s Spring Convocation, she’ll be one step closer…

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Press Releases

CBU VP Academic Awarded Marius Barbeau Medal

May 26, 2023

Cape Breton University’s Vice-President, Academic, Dr. Richard MacKinnon, received the Marius Barbeau Medal for lifetime service to the study of…

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Cape Breton University Honours Research and Teaching Excellence

May 23, 2023

Cape Breton University celebrated research and teaching excellence during an appreciation reception held earlier this month, honouring 11 people who…

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Cape Breton University to Celebrate Spring Convocation

May 17, 2023

Cape Breton University will celebrate the success of more than 1,500 spring graduates across three ceremonies on Thursday, May 18,…

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Cape Breton University to Confer Honorary Degrees on Four Extraordinary Individuals

May 15, 2023

On Thursday, May 18, and Friday, May 19, during three separate spring convocation ceremonies, Cape Breton University will confer honorary…

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NS Premier Announces CBU Satellite BScN Program at Acadia University

May 11, 2023

Anyone interested in becoming a nurse in Nova Scotia will have more options as the Province is increasing the number…

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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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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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Stephanie MacQuarrie

Associate Dean of Science and Technology, Full Professor of Orga

Department: Chemistry

Phone: 902-563-1302

Expertise:

Biochar, Materials Chemistry, Biomass Conversion, Isolation of High Value Products from Biomass, Catalysis, Functional Materials.

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Rebecca Jones

Nursing Practice Educator

Department: Nursing

Phone: 902-563-1884

Office: A 231-C

Expertise:

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

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Patrick Howard

Dean (Interim), School of Education and Professor

Department: Education

Phone: 902-563-1300

Expertise:

teacher education; education for sustainability; literacy education; digital media; phenomenological research methods

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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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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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Lilla Roy

Assistant Professor, Nursing

Department: Nursing

Phone: 902-563-1963

Expertise:

Epidemiology, quality of life measurement, patient preference and value measurement, choice experiments, health economics, health technology assessment, priority setting in health care

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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

Project Manager, EDI Capacity Building

Department: Office of Research and Graduate Studies


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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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 Schmidt

Chair of the Psychology Department and Assistant Professor, Psychology

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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Carolin Kreber

Professor in Education

Department: Education

Phone: 902-563-1672

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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