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Department: Chemistry
Phone:
902-563-1608
Email: Xu_Zhang@cbu.ca
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Nanomaterials and nanotechnology for environmental and health applications with focus on water treatment, cancer diagnostics and treatment
Department: Enrolment Services
Phone:
902-563-1225
Email: Victor_Tomiczek@cbu.ca
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International Education
Department: Nursing
Phone:
902-563-1455
Email: Tracy_Lillington@cbu.ca
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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
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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
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Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, History of Medicine, History of Debt
Department: Biology
Phone:
902-563-1138
Email: Timothy_Rawlings@cbu.ca
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Invertebrate zoology, Evolutionary ecology, Molecular ecology, Marine ecology
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1224
Email: Theresa_Corsano@cbu.ca
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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
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Critical globalization studies, social justice, global citizenship.
Department: Experiential Studies in Community and Sport
Phone:
902-563-1452
Email: Teena_Campbell@cbu.ca
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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 Research and Graduate Studies
Phone:
902-563-1492
Email: Tanya_Andrews@cbu.ca
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Community Economic Development, Non-profit organization, Social Enterprise
Department: Registrar's Office
Phone:
902-563-1649
Email: Suzanne_MacLeod@cbu.ca
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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: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1201
Email: Stephanie_Inglis@cbu.ca
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Indigenous language revitalization, Mi’kmaw language structure, Mi’kmaw language teaching pedagogy and conversational Mi’kmaw language classes, linguistics, Mi’kmaq/English comparative structures, the Basque and Mi’kmaw languages
Department: Chemistry
Phone:
902-563-1302
Email: Stephanie_MacQuarrie@cbu.ca
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Biochar, Materials Chemistry, Biomass Conversion, Isolation of High Value Products from Biomass, Catalysis, Functional Materials.
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1998
Email: Stephanie_MacPherson@cbu.ca
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Sustainable tourism, destination management, tourism operations planning and management, event management
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1926
Email: Stephanie_Gilbert@cbu.ca
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Occupational stress, employee health and well-being, organizational leadership, and motivation at work.
Department: Education
Phone:
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Email: Sonya_Singer@cbu.ca
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Literacy Education, Social Justice, Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Learning
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-227-5245
Email: SilverDonald_Cameron@cbu.ca
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Environment, political and legal studies, literature in English
Department: Literature, Folklore and the Arts
Phone:
902-563-1156
Email: Sheila_Christie@cbu.ca
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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
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Philosophy of Love and Sex; Applied Ethics; Philosophy and Literature; Ethics
Department: Education
Phone:
902-563-1339
Email: Sandra_Jack-Malik@cbu.ca
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dyslexia, reflective practice, settler ally, narrative inquiry and currere
Department: Financial and Information Management
Phone:
902-563-1178
Email: Sahand_Ashtab@cbu.ca
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Short Food Supply Chains, Circular Economy, and Closed Loop Supply Chains
Department: Humanities
Phone:
902-563-1268
Email: Rod_Nicholls@cbu.ca
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Continental Philosophy, Theatre Aesthetics, Spirituality and the Meaning of Life
Department: Nursing
Phone:
902-563-1884
Email: Rebecca_MacDougall@cbu.ca
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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
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Positive Psychology; Motivation; Emotion; Anxiety; Second Language Acquisition
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-564-1161
Email: Peter_Kerr@cbu.ca
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Marketing, Sales Management, Performance Measurement
Department: Education
Phone:
902-563-1300
Email: Patrick_Howard@cbu.ca
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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
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MIS
Department: Literature, Folklore and the Arts
Phone:
902-563-1127
Email: nat_leach@cbu.ca
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Nineteenth century literature and theatre, film studies, Holocaust studies
Department: Student Affairs
Phone:
902-563-1818
Email: Nadine_Ratchford@cbu.ca
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Career Services, Career Development, Job Search
Department: Psychology
Phone:
902-563-2814
Email: Michelle_Jetha@cbu.ca
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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
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Areas of expertise include Power Transmission and Distribution, Electronics
Department: Chemistry
Phone:
902-563-1391
Email: matthias_bierenstiel@cbu.ca
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Chemistry, natural products, applied chemistry, health medicine, industrial processes, bio-products
Department: IT Services
Phone:
902-563-1808
Email: Matthew_Keough@cbu.ca
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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
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Decolonization, reconciliation, business education, two-eyed seeing, Etuaptmumk
Department: Literature, Folklore and the Arts
Phone:
902-563-1623
Email: Mary_Keating@cbu.ca
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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
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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: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1254
Email: Margaret_Dechman@cbu.ca
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social exclusion, addictions
Department: MBA
Phone:
902-563-1180
Email: Maggie_Ma@cbu.ca
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Areas of Expertise or Research Interests: Organization Behavior, Leadership, Safety Management.
Department: Education
Email: Lynn_Levatte@cbu.ca
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Inclusive Education, Sport Psychology , Healthy Aging
Department: Health Sciences
Phone:
902-563-1846
Email: Lyndsay_Best@cbu.ca
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Microbiology
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Email: lloyd_white@cbu.ca
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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
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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
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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
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loves the beaches in Cape Breton, pets, playing darts , and is proud to be working at Cape Breton University as an CBU Alumni!
Department: Experiential Studies in Community and Sport
Phone:
902-563-1445
Email: Leigh_Potvin@cbu.ca
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Gender Studies; LGBTQ2S+ equity and advocacy; Food security; Food Studies; Active Transportation; Critical fat studies/weight bias
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1626
Email: LeeAnne_Broadhead@cbu.ca
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International Relations, Environmental Politics, International Political Economy
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1923
Email: Kevin_McKague@cbu.ca
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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Social Enterprise, Inclusive Markets, Social Franchising
Department: Biology
Phone:
902-563-1667
Email: Ken_Oakes@cbu.ca
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Finfish and shellfish husbandry, water treatment, reactive oxygen species, environmental remediation
Department: Unama'ki College
Phone:
902-563-1975
Email: Katie_MacLeod@cbu.ca
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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
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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
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Sociology of Education, Sociological Theory, Queer Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Critical Pedagogy, Sociology of the Family
Department: Nursing
Phone:
902-565-5885
Email: Karen_Kennedy@cbu.ca
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Sexual Violence, Curriculum
Department: Library
Phone:
902-563-1996
Email: K-Lee_Fraser@cbu.ca
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library anxiety, information literacy, sociolinguistics, and diversity.
Department: Humanities
Email: Julia_Rombough@cbu.ca
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gender; body; history of health and medicine; institutions; urban experience; Italy; Europe; early modern
Department: Chemistry
Phone:
902-563-1876
Email: Judy_MacInnis@cbu.ca
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analytical instrumentation, Transmission Electron Microscopy, science (chemistry) outreach
Department: Student Affairs
Phone:
902-574-5269
Email: Judy_Kelley@cbu.ca
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Registered Nurse
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1256
Email: joseph_parish@cbu.ca
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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
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Student Affairs
Department: Health Sciences
Phone:
902-563-1846
Email: John_MacMillan@cbu.ca
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Occupational Hygiene, Risk Management and Organizational Health and Safety
Department: Humanities
Phone:
902-563-1238
Email: jim_gerrie@cbu.ca
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Technology, religion, ethics, media, software studies
Department: Marketing and Communications
Phone:
902-563-1160
Email: Jill_Ellsworth@cbu.ca
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Social Media, Brand Journalism,
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1336
Email: Jennifer_Currie@cbu.ca
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Event Management and Business Communication
Department: Marketing and Communications
Phone:
902-563-1803
Email: Jenna_Dunlop@cbu.ca
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Event Management
Department: Development
Phone:
902-563-1932
Email: Janice_Tulk@cbu.ca
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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: Centre for Health, Wellness and Extended Learning
Phone:
902-563-1305
Email: Jane_Lewis@cbu.ca
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902-563-1305
Department: Math, Physics and Geology
Phone:
902-563-1181
Email: James_Preen@cbu.ca
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Graph Theory; algebra and structures. Regularity, distance and polynomials.
Department: Health Sciences
Phone:
902-563-1206
Email: Helen_Mersereau@cbu.ca
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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
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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
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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
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Fundamental and Applied Enzymology, Protein Chemistry, Biochemical Techniques and Instrumentation
Department: Psychology
Phone:
902-563-1237
Email: Geraldine_Carlin@cbu.ca
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areas of interest are mental health and weight bias and discrimination
Department: Literature, Folklore and the Arts
Phone:
902-563-1299
Email: Gerald_Pocius@cbu.ca
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folklore, material culture, vernacular architecture, cultural landscapes, museums and historic sites
Department: Psychology
Phone:
902-563-1451
Email: Geoff_Carre@cbu.ca
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Effects of nature exposure on cognition and mental health: physiological underpinnings
Department: Communication and Languages
Phone:
902-563-1234
Email: Felix_Odartey@cbu.ca
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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
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Data Analytics, Semantic Web, and Knowledge Management
Department: Nursing
Phone:
902-563-1438
Media Expert
Sexual violence, sexual consent, access to and use of health services, determinants of health, health promotion
Department: Verschuren Centre
Phone:
902-563-1184
Email: Elizabeth_MacCormick@cbu.ca
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Sustainable development, value-added bioproducts, greenhouse technologies, local food production, community coastal management
Department: Verschuren Centre
Phone:
902-563-1184
Email: Edward_Cross@cbu.ca
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Polymer Chemistry, biodegradable plastics, materials science, chemical analysis
Department: Math, Physics and Geology
Phone:
902-563-1289
Email: Edmund_Rudiuk@cbu.ca
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Distribution theory, multivariate analysis, statistical inference, special functions.
Department: Enrolment Services
Phone:
902-563-1278
Email: Donalda_Johnston@cbu.ca
Media Expert
Immigration
Department: Mi'kmaq Resource Centre / Unama'ki College
Phone:
902-563-1660
Email: Diane_Chisholm@cbu.ca
Media Expert
Mi’kmaw and Indigenous culture
Department: Financial and Information Management
Phone:
902-563-1312
Email: Derrick_Hayes@cbu.ca
Media Expert
Primary area of research is in community economic development and not-for-profit activities in Cape Breton
Department: Education
Email: Dennis_York@cbu.ca
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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: Math, Physics and Geology
Phone:
902-563-1384
Email: deanne_vanrooyen@cbu.ca
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Tectonics, Precambrian geology, geochronology, structural geology, metamorphic petrology
Department: Nursing
Phone:
902-563-1410
Email: De-Ann_Sheppard@cbu.ca
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Indigenous health, Anti-racist pedagogies, Indigenous research methodology, Cultural Safety, Indigenous health nursing, structural racism, Health Equity/Inequity
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1213
Email: David_Johnson@cbu.ca
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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
Media Expert
Species at risk in Canada, beetles, bees; Changes in bird populations
Department: Office of Research and Graduate Studies
Phone:
902-563-1338
Email: Dana_Mount@cbu.ca
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Environmental issues (cultural/political, not scientific), environmental humanities, postcolonial issues, world literature, gender.
Department: Chemistry
Phone:
902-563-1386
Email: Collins_Nganou@cbu.ca
Media Expert
Reactive nanomaterial for water splitting and photocatalyst,
Department: Nursing
Phone:
902-563-1961
Email: Claudette_Taylor@cbu.ca
Media Expert
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
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Popular Music, Atlantic Canadian Folk and Traditional Music, Social Class, Ethnomusicology, Music Theory
Department: Chemistry
Phone:
902-956-0789
Email: Chigozie_Okolie@cbu.ca
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Chemistry, Biochemistry, Magnetic nanoparticles
Department: Biology
Phone:
902-563-1814
Email: chantelle_cormier@cbu.ca
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Forensic Entomology; Science Outreach
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1661
Email: Catherine_Leviten-Reid@cbu.ca
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affordable housing, community development, non-profit organizations
Department: Library
Phone:
902-563-1348
Email: caroline_power@cbu.ca
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Serial aquisitions
Department: Education
Phone:
902-563-1672
Email: Carolin_Kreber@cbu.ca
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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
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Marine Ecology, Oceanography, Climate Change Adaptation
Department: Enrolment Services
Phone:
902-563-1432
Email: Bilynda_Whiting@cbu.ca
Media Expert
Student Retention and Persistence
Department: Experiential Studies in Community and Sport
Phone:
902-563-1452
Email: Bettina_Callary@cbu.ca
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Sport coaching, coach development, adult learning
Department: Health Sciences
Phone:
902-563-1293
Email: Bernard_MacLennan@cbu.ca
Media Expert
Infectious disease, food safety, food quality, general microbiology
Department: Communication and Languages
Phone:
902-563-1870
Email: bernard_farenkia@cbu.ca
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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
Media Expert
Area of Expertise: Student degree audits, Convocation, and Academic Calendar.
Department: Humanities
Phone:
902-563-1354
Email: Andy_Parnaby@cbu.ca
Media Expert
Canadian politics and current affairs, Cape Breton history and culture, Cape Breton University
Department: Humanities
Phone:
902-563-1301
Email: Andrew_Reynolds@cbu.ca
Media Expert
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
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Public Policy and Public Administration, Canadian Government and Politics, Community Economic Development
Department: Unama'ki College
Phone:
902-563-1395
Email: Alyce_Maclean@cbu.ca
Media Expert
Community engagement, project management
Department: Verschuren Centre
Phone:
902-563-2821
Email: Allison_Mackie@cbu.ca
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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
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Department: Finance
Phone:
902-563-1887
Email: Aaron_MacDonald@cbu.ca
Media Expert
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