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WATERLOO – The Ripple Effect Education (TREE) is a peace education initiative based out of the Frank and Helen Epp Peace Incubator in the MSCU Centre for Peace Advancement. Starting in the classroom, TREE aims to create peace-literate citizens with demonstrable conflict resolution skills and awareness of justice issues locally and globally. TREE programming will empower youth to think critically and evoke change in their communities. They will hone soft skills like communication, teamwork, and       empathy. 

The Board of Governors of Conrad Grebel University College is pleased to announce that former Grebel dean, Jim Pankratz, has accepted the invitation to serve as Interim President. This follows the announcement that Susan Schultz Huxman has accepted a call to serve at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

The Grand Philharmonic Choir and Conrad Grebel University College are honoured to welcome Sir James MacMillan, one of the world’s foremost living composers, as a visiting scholar and conductor. MacMillan’s music can be heard around the globe and he regularly conducts the world’s leading orchestras and choruses.

This weekend there will be 2 concerts featuring the music of Arvo Pärt to which you are invited.  Pärt, the most often performed living composer in the world, celebrated his 80th birthday this fall.  The concerts this weekend together celebrate the living legacy of this deeply spiritual and prolific composer.

Waterloo is a thriving hotbed of innovation. With tech start-ups emerging daily, there is much focus on business, technology, and entrepreneurship. Adding to this concentration of ideas and change, the MSCU Center for Peace Advancement (CPA) is joining Waterloo’s innovation ecosystem with the launch of the Frank and Helen Epp Peace Incubator.

After its April meeting, the Conrad Grebel University College Board of Governors approved the hiring of Jennifer Ball as Assistant Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies(PACS), commencing July 1, 2015.

Press Release by Harold Press

New history of Mennonites and Amish in Ontario published
Author/archivist Samuel J. Steiner produces vast volume

MENNOMEDIA, KITCHENER, Ontario, and HARRISONBURG, Va.—Conestoga wagons carried Ontario Mennonite settlers to the tangled forests of the Niagara Peninsula in the late 1700s. Since then, their descendants and more recent arrivals to the hamlets and cities of Ontario have sought promised lands of faithful living, peaceful communities, and religious freedom.

Director Named to lead MSCU Centre for Peace Advancement at Conrad Grebel.

Paul Heidebrecht has been named Director of the new Mennonite Savings and Credit Union (MSCU) Centre for Peace Advancement at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo.