EXHIBIT | 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday) | HSD A451
Nursing inquiry comes in many shapes, colours and dimensions. This exhibit looks at artifacts of nursing scholarship and research through posters and art that illustrate the various paths of graduate students and faculty using arts-based and traditional methodologies.

TOUR | 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | SSM, Cornett and BEC
Explore the Faculty of Social Science's research labs and offices during an orienteering event (and make sure you enter our draw to pick up a prize or two).  Pick up your passport at any department office or download and print the PDF.  For more information, please contact sosccomm@uvic.ca. 

Unit head offices are as follows: ANTH (COR B228), ECON (BEC 360), ES (SSM B243), GEOG (SSM B203), POLI (SSM A316), PSYC (COR A236) and SOC (COR A333).

OPEN HOUSE | 8:30 - 2:30 p.m. (Monday to Friday) | Centre for Addictions Research
Creating and mobilizing high-quality research related to substance use and addiction is key to the work of the Centre for Addictions Research. Visitors will learn about interdisciplinary research initiatives that impact health and well-being in society through a visual tour and opportunities to talk with researchers who are making a difference in policy and practice in BC and beyond.

TOUR | Anytime | Campus-wide
Did you know that UVic co-op students are actively involved in cutting-edge research? They contribute to, and often lead, research projects for employers in a wide range of fields and industries. Visit the Tour de Co-op and Careers website to get your map and tour these projects.

WORKSHOP | 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | McKenzie/Sinclair room, Cadboro Commons
What is community-engaged and community-based research? What kind of partnerships and local-national-global networks have been developed? Founding Office of Community Based Research director Dr. Budd Hall presents an overviews of the CBR/CER movement and the vital role of UVic and multi-sector partnerships in this effort. Chris Poirer Skelton, Director of Community Investment and Collaboration for the United Way of Greater Victoria will share her perspective on successes and future opportunities as core partners of OCBR and as national leaders in the CBR movement.  Registration is required; please RSVP to ocbr@uvic.ca.

LAUNCH | 12:00 - 12:45 p.m. | University Centre lobby
Help get this festival started with a warm welcome to IdeaFest from Dr. Howard Brunt, Vice-President Research. Cupcakes and revelry in the name of celebrating research, scholarship and creativity at UVic will follow.

LECTURE | 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. | BEC 402
The Quran forbids any interest on debt; this overlaps with, but may not be identical to, the Biblical injunction on usury. Islamic finance constructs a complex and modern financial system without any use of interest, debts or bonds as in conventional finance, so how should the curriculum at our business school deal with this challenge?

WORKSHOP | 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. | MAC D101
Traditional approaches to drug education such as fear-based, just-say-no approaches do not work. This workshop will look at two critical elements in effectively addressing substance use in the school setting; namely: creating healthy physical and social environments and developing health literacy.

PANEL DISCUSSION | 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. | DSB C113
Come hear stories from UVic alumni and community entrepreneurs about successful start-ups and participate in a discussion around some of the challenges and obstacles that they've overcome. Ideas for supporting the next student entrepreneurs will also be discussed. Event open to the public. Panel members include Rob Bennett (Founder, Municipal Software and COO Simation Global Technologies), James Degreef (CEO and Co-founder, Chatterblock.com), Jill Doucette (Founder, Synergy Enterprises) and Martyn Ward (Industrial Technology Advisor, NRC-IRAP).

PANEL DISCUSSION | 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. | Sedgewick C168
This event features a keynote presentation by Eco-Research Chair Dr. Michael M'Gonigle on the importance of ecological governance today, followed by formal responses from a panel of experts offering perspectives on children and youth, Indigenous peoples, feminism and women’s rights and natural resources.

LECTURE | 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. | Bob Wright auditorium
Human activities are changing the character of the world’s oceans. Climate change and pollution are shifting the fundamental chemical balance of even our local seas. Dissolved oxygen contents are declining in crucial areas near the North American coast reaching levels that cause notable ecosystem stress. With higher carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the ocean is becoming more acidic. New research can support better decisions. This talk will be co-delivered by Verena Tunnicliffe, Director, VENUS Coastal Network and Tom Pedersen, Executive Director, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions.

Q&A/OPEN HOUSE | 11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Technology Enterprise Facility, Room 204 (Second floor)
Come by CAHR to check out how we put research to action. We'll have displays and video clips about our various projects and programs. At noon we'll be showing our documentary film on water issues facing Aboriginal communities. Snacks and door prizes; for information, please contact cahr@uvic.ca. For further details, please see our event poster.

PECHAKUCHA | 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. | DSB C113
Creative business projects and socially responsible profits; these are not oxymorons. The Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation invites you to a triple-header of catchy and quick multimedia presentations by Gustavson School of Business faculty and students showcasing their research and innovation (and the benefits to the real world).

Q&A/POSTER EXHIBIT | 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. | University Centre lobby
Spend your lunch hour with staff from the Faculty of Graduate Studies, Graduate Admissions and Records and Graduate Recruitment to get your questions answered on everything you want to know about life as a UVic grad student (including program options and UVic's admission process). Students participating in interdisciplinary graduate programs will also be on hand with posters of their research to answer questions and talk through their big ideas with you.

WORKSHOP | 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. | University House #3
This creative, hands-on learning event showcases participatory ways of evaluating youth and family-serving programs. Designed for students in education, social work, child and youth care, psychology, nursing or those with an interest in engaging youth and families, students can circulate and ‘flex their muscles’ at any number of activities. Come get in shape to do evaluation for your practicum, co-op, course or thesis.

OPEN HOUSE | 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. | University House #3
The Office of Community-Based Research opened it's doors five years ago as the first co-governed and campus-wide office of its kind in Canada. Since then many local, national and global projects and movements have been developed and supported by OCBR and others. Come and join us for cake and a few words on OCBR highlights and future visions while you share your ideas with our local and global OCBR-UVic network.  This event will be co-hosted by the Centre For Youth and Society.

LECTURE | 7:00 p.m. | DSB C122
Department of Theatre instructor Will Weigler offers this rare opportunity to hear acclaimed Toronto-based Guna and Rappahannock actor and playwright Monique Mojica discuss the five-year process of creating the play, Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way. Mojica practices a creative process that privileges Indigenous Knowledges, cultural aesthetics and performance principles, and is dedicated to theatrical practice as healing, as reclamation of historical/cultural memory and as an act of resistance. The former artist director of Native Earth Performing Arts, Canada’s most prominent aboriginal theatre company, and a co-founder of Toronto's Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble, Mojica has taught at McMaster University and at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fé.

LECTURE | 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. | Bob Wright auditorium
What is the impact of our changing climate on food production in British Columbia? How will it affect the province’s growing regions and our level of food self-sufficiency? This talk, co-presented by Dr. Francis Zwiers, Director of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium and Dr. Aleck Ostry, Professor in the Department of Geography, will explore how BC’s climate has changed over the past century, discuss further changes likely to occur as a result of continuing greenhouse gas emissions and examine how this relates to the future of food security in BC.

EXHIBIT | 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. | 3rd Floor, A Wing, HSD
The School of Public Administration is presenting an opportunity for undergrads to explore our constellation of graduate programs that are enriched by cutting-edge faculty research and exciting real-life applications.

LECTURE | 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. | HSD A451
Dr. Carole Estabrooks, RN, is the Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation and a professor at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on knowledge translation theory and interventions, including the facilitation and impact of knowledge translation on patients and organizations.

LECTURE | 11:00 - 2:00 p.m. | Library A003
Faculty members, librarians, and graduate students will discuss a variety of exciting and ongoing research projects related to reading and textual explorations. By profiling projects that emphasize the importance of the library to researchers on campus, and the effects of that activity in the community, this event will highlight the integral role that the UVic Libraries play in research success.

LECTURE/DISCUSSION | 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. | HSD A373
Increasing numbers of young girls in both cities and rural settings are experimenting with crystal meth. Several interventions to counter this trend have not been effective due to an absence of in-depth studies around youth perspectives on causes and ideas about prevention. This presentation highlights some of the findings of new research in this field, including the methodologies used.

Q&A/POSTER EXHIBIT | 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. | University Centre lobby
Spend your lunch hour with staff from the Faculty of Graduate Studies, Graduate Admissions and Records and Graduate Recruitment to get your questions answered on everything you want to know about life as a UVic grad student (including program options and UVic's admission process). Students participating in interdisciplinary graduate programs will also be on hand with posters of their research to answer questions and talk through their big ideas with you.

PHOTO EXHIBIT | 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. | Sedgewick C Wing
Come see the winning entries of CAPI’s overseas experience photo contest, including awards in the categories of landscapes, ‘my home away from home’ and people and culture. Refreshments will be served; details available on CAPI's website.

DEBATE | 12:45 - 2:00 p.m. | Queenswood/Arbutus Room, Cadboro Commons
Join professors Josh Ault, Merwan Engineer, Budd Hall, Basma Majerbi and Michael Read alongside Anushka Ngaji, a student in the Faculty of Law and an activist with the Occupy Victoria movement, for a multi-disciplinary debate on the globalization of revolution. Lunch will be provided and an RSVP to vpresec@uvic.ca is required; this debate is presented by the Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation in collaboration with the Office of the Vice-President Research.

WORKSHOP | 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. | SSM B211/215
Mapping is a powerful tool for representing and engaging people in their home places. UVic has supported community mapping and the Common Ground and Green Map Networks for over 12 years; learn more about this exciting work which bridges many academic disciplines and sectors and is proven as an engaging tool for participatory planning, learning and sustainable design. This workshop includes a presentation and hands-on exercises that participants can apply on and off campus.

RECEPTION (BY RSVP) | 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. | David Lam foyer, MAC
Education faculty and students will exhibit artifacts or posters related to their research and will have the opportunity to mingle with other exhibitors and interested audience members.

DEBATE | 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. | SSM A110
As independent bookstores close their doors, newspapers declare bankruptcy and young people are more familiar with negotiating digitized data, it seems that the era of the printed word may be on it’s way out. Indeed, the emergency of digital humanities research seems to imply that, even in the most book-centric fields, the written word may be obsolete. Join us for a good-humoured look at whether the book is dead or if rumours of its demise are premature. Please see our poster for further details.

LECTURE | 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. | SSM A102
Dr. Raymond Siemens, a Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and a professor in the Department of English, is a digital humanist who specializes in Early Modern texts. His lecture will focus on questions produced by the dynamic intersection between information technology and the humanities.

CONFERENCE | 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Cadboro Commons
The Centre on Aging is hosting this Applied Research Colloquium (ARC), a one-day event to provide students, faculty and community researchers an opportunity to share aging-related research findings with faculty, students, government, the Vancouver Island Health Authority, and other community partners and interested parties.  Details are available at the Centre on Aging's website. 

PANEL DISCUSSION | 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | University Club
This roundtable addresses the challenges in water policy and governance with an integrated view of the water cycle. Participants will bring academic perspectives and local knowledge to bear in commenting on significant research issues on freshwater resources in a changing climate, associated questions of governance, and will explore possible links between ongoing research at UVic and emerging challenges in water policy, management and governance. Please RSVP to water@polisproject.org.

POSTER SESSIONS | 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. | MSB 150
Get a glimpse of the daily life of researchers carrying out medical research, learn about the exciting research areas being investigated in the Division of Medical Sciences via poster sessions occuring concurrently to Dr. Brian Christie's lecture on healthy brain aging. Topics include: Cardiac Health, Maternal Health, Aging/Stroke, Building Brains and Brawn, Medical Education and Publications authored from Division Faculty.

LECTURE | 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. AND 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. | MSB 150
Join Dr. Brian Christie, director of UVic’s Neuroscience Graduate Program and a Michael Smith Senior Scholar for a fascinating look at what happens as the brain ages, and how physical exercise can benefit both our physical brain and our mental health. Space is limited; please RSVP by March 1 to dmscrsvp@uvic.ca or by phoning 250-853-3129.

OPEN HOUSE | 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. | ECS building
A showcase of interdisciplinary projects from current computer science researchers (and more fun than you can possibly imagine). The day includes concise, rotating talks from grad students on projects that include the Graphics Group, the MOD(ularity) Squad and the Music Information and Sound Technology Interdisciplinary Centre (MISTIC). Please see the Computer Science home page for further details http://www.csc.uvic.ca/.

LECTURE | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | EOW 430
The Computer Science Department invites you into the world on interdisciplinary research. Hear a keynote lecture by Dr. Janelle Jenstad and Mr. Martin Holmes on the Map of Early Modern London, a digital atlas of sixteenth and seventeenth-century London based on a bird's-eye view of the city. Please see the Computer Science home page for further details http://www.csc.uvic.ca/.

Q&A/POSTER EXHIBIT | 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. | University Centre lobby
Spend your lunch hour with staff from the Faculty of Graduate Studies, Graduate Admissions and Records and Graduate Recruitment to get your questions answered on everything you want to know about life as a UVic grad student (including program options and UVic's admission process). Students participating in interdisciplinary graduate programs will also be on hand with posters of their research to answer questions and talk through their big ideas with you.

DEBATE | 12:45 - 2:00 p.m. | Queenswood/Arbutus, Cadboro Commons
Join professors and experts from across campus in a multi-disciplinary debate on the challenges posed by an aging population, including health care, technology and the university's role in articulating what can be done. Lunch will be provided and an RSVP to vpresec@uvic.ca is required; this debate is presented by the Centre on Aging in collaboration with the Office of the Vice-President Research.

LECTURE | 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. AND 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. | MSB 150
Join Dr. Brian Christie, director of UVic’s Neuroscience Graduate Program and a Michael Smith Senior Scholar for a fascinating look at what happens as the brain ages, and how physical exercise can benefit both our physical brain and our mental health. Space is limited; please RSVP by March 1 to dmscrsvp@uvic.ca or by phoning 250-853-3129.

PUBLIC FORUM | 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. | HHB 105
The uprisings that spread through the Middle East one year ago have completely altered the political order of this region and the world as a whole. A panel of UVic experts will lead discussion on the transformations of the past year and possible scenarios for the future. Sponsored by the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society. Please visit this event's website for details.

READING/BOOK SIGNING | 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. | University Club
Each year UVic faculty, staff, students, alumni and retirees produce an incredible amount of intellectual content reflecting the breadth and diversity of research, teaching, personal and professional interests. UVic Libraries and the UVic Bookstore celebrate UVic community authors at this annual event; more information is available on the UVic Libraries website.

SHORT TALKS/FACULTY TOURS | 2:30 - 5:30 p.m. | Bob Wright 104
Selected researchers will give short talks about the major research efforts underway in physics and astronomy followed by a reception and tours of research facilities.  Schedule and event details are posted on the department's website.

LECTURES | 10:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. | HHB 120
Graduate students from across campus are being recognized by the Centre for their exemplary research in early childhood. This event will profile their work and distinguished professors in the field will be on hand as ‘respondents’ to stimulate discussion. The day opens with a keynote speaker (Dr Viviene Temple) and closes with a panel discussion of “What’s New, What’s Now and What’s Next?”.