UVic Law student Johnny Mack is one of 14 PhD students receiving a highly coveted doctoral scholarship of $180,000 from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. As a 2011 Trudeau Scholar, Mack will be investigating how traditional socio-political and legal frameworks of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Vancouver Island could be reformed to better reflect the realities and issues their communities face today. Read more about this 2011 Trudeau Scholarship winner.

At the 2011 spring convocation, David Cecchetto, PhD in Cultural, Social and Political Thought, was the winner of the Governor General's Gold Medal.

Dr. Cecchetto is also the winner of the 2011 CAGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation award. Read David's full story here.

The Andy Farquharson Teaching Excellence Award recipients for 2011 are:

Crystal Tremblay, PhD, Department of Geography 

Catherine Nutting, PhD, Department of History in Art

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This course is ideal for graduate students who speak English as a second language and want to improve their English ability.
You will be able to meet with other grad students who are experiencing the same situation and work together to improve your English proficiency.

Please see the course description for more details or contact the English Lanuguage Centre at CST, 2nd Floor reception for more information.

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UVic’s graduate business school has a new name, the Sardul S. Gill Graduate School of Business, marking the first time in Canada that such an institution has been named for a donor of Indian descent. The new name honours Victoria resident Sardul Singh Gill’s $5-million gift to the Gustavson School of Business.

Beginning May 1, 2011, UVic will only accept digital submissions from defending graduate students. Read the full story here.

BC Business Magazine has named the University of Victoria's engineering entrepreneurship master's program as one of its "20 Most Innovative Companies" in BC. The magazine describes the program as "impressively inventive" and growing "ideas that have a business plan encoded in their DNA." Through a unique partnership with Wesley Clover International, an Ottawa-based investment company, UVic engineering students are being given the opportunity to graduate with a master's degree, a diploma in entrepreneurship, and equity in a business they helped form. Learn more about engineering and entrepreneurship at UVic.

This new program offers outstanding MSc and PhD opportunities for graduate work in Biology and Forest Biology. Learn more about the NSERC CREATE Training Program.

Effective September 2011, the School of Public Health and Social Policy in the Faculty of Human and Social Development will offer a Master’s degree of Public Health. Public Health Focus of New School.

The UVic Neuroscience Graduate Program (MSc and PhD) was given final approval by the Ministry of Advanced Education on May 19, 2011. The program is interdisciplinary, building on existing strengths in the Psychology, Biology, Division of Medical Sciences, Biochemistry and Microbiology and Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education Departments and will be hosted by the Division of Medical Sciences.

The first students will enter the Neuroscience Graduate Program in September 2011

Early Bird Registration Deadline extended to Friday, March 9, 2012.

For details and registration information please see the How to Talk about Science poster.

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