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This school year marks Conrad Grebel University College’s 50^th anniversary! As Grebel welcomed new students from coast to coast into residence and resumed teaching a variety of liberal arts courses at the University of Waterloo, the College community reflected on what has sustained the College in its first 50 years and what could be done to ensure another strong 50 years.

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Sound in the Land 2014 – Music and the Environment – a Festival/Conference of Mennonites and music, June 5 – 8, 2014 at Conrad Grebel University College/UW, will explore ways of hearing the earth and listening to the environment.  The third in a series of highly successful events, Sound in the Land 2014 will combine concerts – choral, vocal, chamber, orchestral, soundscape, multimedia, folk/jazz – with workshops, academic conference sessions, nature/sound walks, and singing, as we discover ecological understandings of music and sound, both locally and globally.  As part of Grebel’s 50^th Anniversary celebrations, this event brings together musicians, environmentalists, ethnomusicologists, writers and artists into fields of ‘creation care’ and ecomusicology, studying sound from an environmentally ethical basis, consistent with long-standing Mennonite values. 

Conrad Grebel University College and Wilfrid Laurier University will welcome hundreds of visitors from North America and as far away as Africa, Asia, Europe, South America and Japan as co-hosts of the 2013 Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) Conference, October 17-19.

WATERLOO, ON -- Conrad Grebel University College is pleased to announce that it has received a $5,000 grant from the Waterloo Region's Community Environmental Fund for its new electric vehicle charging station. As another one of the College’s green initiatives, Grebel will implement a charging station for electric and hybrid vehicles. Available to the public, the aim of this project is to increase consumer use of electric vehicles. The charging station will be the first one of its kind on the University of Waterloo campus. The charging station is expected to be ready for use in the fall, soon after the College parking lot is finalized and as the new building construction nears its completion.

Peter Braid, Member of Parliament (Kitchener–Waterloo), on behalf of the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, today announced support for the preservation and exhibition of the Mennonite Archives of Ontario at Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo.

“This will be my last year!” say the 16-year-olds, sadly bemoaning the fact that after this summer they will be too old for Ontario Mennonite Music Camp, held each summer at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo.

Teens love this camp, they come year after year to get their fill of singing, playing, acting and collaborating around music. It’s the highlight of the summer for musically minded youth looking for ways to hone their skills and develop new musical expertise.

WATERLOO, ON -- Susan Schultz Huxman, President of Conrad Grebel University College at the University of Waterloo, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Vuorinen as faculty member in Choral Music.