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Leigh Joseph - School of Environmental Studies
Mark Jarvis - Public Administration
Mark Jarvis, UVic PhD candidate, shares the $50,000 win of prestigious Donner Prize with fellow authors Peter Aucoin, and Lori Turnbull for their book Democratizing the Constitution. The $50,000 prize is an annual award for the best public policy book by a Canadian.
Read the full storyDavid Trill - Exercise Science Physical & Health
David Trill, master's candidate, is studying child health through healthy eating activities. He's currently seeking participants to get his home based research project off the ground. Trill hopes to teach families healthy eating strategies because it's the parents who are the gatekeepers of the kids.
Amalis Riera - Earth & Ocean Sciences
Wiretapping for Whales! Amalis Riera, UVic graduate student in Earth & Ocean Sciences has spent hundreds of hours in front of a computer headphones on, listening intently for the telltale voices of killer whales in the waters off Vancouver Island.
Read the full storyCatherine Nutting - 2011 Andy Farquharson Teaching Award Recipient
Catherine Nutting, PhD, Department of History in Art, is one of this year's Andy Farquharson Teaching Excellence Award recipients.Read the full storyCrystal Tremblay - 2011 Andy Farquharson Teaching Award
Crystal Tremblay, PhD, Department of Geography is one of this year's Andy Farquharson Teaching Excellence Award recipients.
Christopher Parsons - Political Science
UVic PhD student Christopher Parsons recently joined the provincial privacy commissioner in Vancouver for a panel discussion about the Conservative government's proposed online spying legislation and what Canadian experts have to say about it. Parsons also commented on the proposed Bill C-30 that will allow police to ask Internet service providers to voluntarily turn over subscriber emails and web surfing records.
Crystal Tremblay - Geography
PhD geography candidate Crystal Tremblay recently returned from India, where she worked with the Society for Participatory Research in Asia.
Read the full storyRobin Tunnicliffe - Interdisciplinary
Robin Tunnicliffe is passionate about locally grown food, sustainability and food security on the Saanich Peninsula. Compelled by her passion, she returned to school and studied an interdisciplinary program that combined sociology, women's studies and business. Her thesis, "How do (or can) farmers make it work on the Saanich Peninsula?" explores many of the challenges inherent in growing food locally.
Read the full storyYasuko Thanh - Writing
UVic writing alumnus Yasuko Thanh was the winner of the 2009 Journey Prize, Canada’s most significant monetary award given to an emerging writer for a short story or excerpt from a fiction work-in-progress.
Read the full storyGarth Martens - Fine Arts
Victoria poet and UVic alumnus Garth Martens is now $5,000 richer, thanks to his first-place poetry win in the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers.
Read the full storyTyrone Pile - History
Retired Rear Admiral Tyrone Pile, a UVic alumnus (MA History), was recently honored by the Governor General for his meritorious military service with CFB Esquimalt.
Read the full storyNathan Bennett - Geography
Geography student Nathan Bennett has a soft spot for the tumbling ocean surf. He’s also one of only 15 students across the country receiving a coveted $180,000 doctoral scholarship from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.
Read the full storyJohnny Mack - Law
UVic Law PhD candidate Johnny Mack is one of the 2011 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation scholarship recipients receiving a total of $180,000 over three years.
Read the full storyGenevieve Von Petzinger - Anthropology
Genevieve von Petzinger (Anthropology) is the only Canadian on the distinguished list of 20 new international fellows at the TEDGlobal Conference 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she shared her recent research with an international audience.
Read the full storyDavid Cecchetto - Interdisciplinary
Have you ever been without your mobile device and felt not quite entirely yourself, as though your very existence were somehow diminished? If you’ve felt such technology withdrawal, then you’ve experienced a visceral awareness of the posthuman condition.
The deep implications of this are the purview of the field of technological posthumanism, and in his Governor General’s Gold Medal-winning dissertation, David Cecchetto (Interdisciplinary) has made a “hugely influential” contribution to posthumanist thought.
Read the full storyElizabeth Manning - Social Work
Elizabeth (Eli) Manning, MA student in the School of Social Work, was the Lieutenant Governor's Silver Medal recipient for the top master's thesis at the 2011 spring convocation. Her thesis looks at how language prevents people from accessing health care. The topic grew out of her work at a Winnipeg community health centre that mainly serviced people living with HIV/AIDS.
Read the full storyJessica Simpson - Biology
Jessica Simpson has an academic resume that could have taken this bright young neuroscience researcher anywhere she wanted. But Simpson, who completed a combined biology and psychology honours degree in 2009 and recently received her MSc in biology, chose to stick to her hometown of Victoria when it came time to pursue—and continue—her studies.
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