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CAPERS Weekend Brings Alumni and Community Together

Best of 2024

December 18, 2024

2024 has been a remarkable year at Cape Breton University, filled with growth, innovation and unforgettable moments as we celebrated…

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Making a Difference Through Music: Meet Mark Parselelo

December 16, 2024

Mark Parselelo, joining CBU as an instructor this January, has dedicated his life to the art of music. He has…

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Research at the WaTER Lab: Meet Jennifer and Marissa Cox

December 13, 2024

For two Bachelor of Science students at Cape Breton University, a shared passion for research and public health brought them…

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Helping At-Risk Youth and Following in Her Brother’s Footsteps: Meet Peer Mentor Madison Headley

December 12, 2024

Growing up, CBU student and Peer Mentor, Madison Headley, would often hear stories about Psychology courses at CBU from her…

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Putting Yourself in Positions to Learn: Meet Peer Mentor Rashidi Amiri

December 12, 2024

Growing up in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, in the shadow of some of the world’s greatest wonders like Mount Kilimanjaro, the Ngorongoro…

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Increasing and Improving Men’s Health Awareness: Meet Chris Bourque

December 12, 2024

A Social Worker by trade, CBU Mental Health Counsellor, Chris Bourque, spent most of his career in the public mental…

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Press Releases

Cape Breton University Announces Revived January Start for Online Bachelor of Education Program

December 20, 2024

Cape Breton University is pleased to announce that the highly anticipated 8-month online Bachelor of Education program will proceed, with…

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Cape Breton University Hosts Annual December to Remember

December 17, 2024

Cape Breton University is proud to host this year’s December to Remember, an annual series of festive events for students…

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Cape Breton University Hosts Mock MMI Sessions to Support Pre-Med Students

December 10, 2024

Earlier this month, Cape Breton University hosted a mock Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) session for nine pre-med students. MMI’s are…

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President David Dingwall Awarded King Charles III Coronation Medal for Contributions to Education and Public Service

November 29, 2024

Yesterday, November 28, 2024, the Honourable David C. Dingwall, PC, the 7th President and Vice-Chancellor of Cape Breton University, was…

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Cape Breton University Research Recognized with Highest Honours

November 25, 2024

Cape Breton University’s Dr. Marcia Ostashewski, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Director of CBU’s Centre for Sound Communities, will receive…

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Media Experts

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

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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