Media relations

We connect our university community with local, regional, and national print and broadcast media to talk about the stories that matter—to people, places and the planet.

Our researchers also provide expert perspective and context on breaking news and current events.

We work to ensure that the university’s views on significant issues and challenges are well understood by everyone.

What we do

• Communications planning and leadership for UVic initiatives, accomplishments and announcements
• Direction, guidance and support for decentralized university communications resources
• Issues communications
• Media training for faculty, campus leaders and researchers
• Media monitoring and evaluation
• Institutional research communications strategy
• Research-related publications

Contact us

Our office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday. We are located in the C wing of the Sedgewick Building.

Media Relations & Public Affairs
Email: uvicnews@uvic.ca
Phone: 250-721-7636
Fax: 250-721-8955
Twitter: @uvicnews

If a member of the media urgently needs to contact the department after hours, please call UVic Campus Security Services at 250-721-6683 and the message will be passed on to UVic media relations officials.

Latest news releases and advisories

The forgotten secret beneath our feet

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A UVic hydrologist is one of an international group of scientists and experts who are calling for action to protect global groundwater resources—which makes up 99 per cent of the Earth's liquid freshwater. Tom Gleeson is lead author of a Nature Correspondence article published this week that says we are not doing enough to protect and manage global groundwater resources from contamination, salinization, depletion and neglect.

UVic grads among world’s most employable

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Graduates from UVic are some of the world's most employable according to a prestigious international ranking by Times Higher Education, based on feedback from top international companies.

Cross-linking technology tightly binds

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UVic professor of organic chemistry Jeremy Wulff’s research team led the design of the new class of cross-linking materials in research that appears in the journal Science. Together, UVic and UBC Okanagan researchers discovered a broadly applicable method of bonding plastics and synthetic fibres at the molecular level.

Victoria Hand Project extends reach

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A UVic initiative that provides 3D-printed prosthetic hands to amputees in developing countries, will now extend its reach to help people in underserved and remote communities in Canada and the US. This initiative led by Nick Dechev, professor of mechanical engineering and ED of the Victoria Hand Project, received a $1-million award by the 2019 TD Ready Challenge, announced Dec. 3. Funding will also initiate UVic research trials on 3D-printed spinal braces to treat scoliosis in children.

Discovery changes any surface chemistry

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If you can find an efficient way to alter the chemical makeup of a surface then you can potentially enable a wide range of applications—from designing electrodes for powerful sensors to accessing improved ways to harvest energy for more efficient solar panels.

UVic innovators, entrepreneurs get boost

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$1M game changing investment by Coast Capital Savings will give UVic innovators and entrepreneurs a big boost.

Dynamic learning for chemistry students

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Chemistry students at the University of Victoria can now take part in an international program with Denmark-based pharmaceutical company LEO Pharma A/S that will provide them with hands-on learning during their academic course work.

Legacy of the late Roger J. Bishop

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The legacy of the late Roger J. Bishop, a founding member of UVic’s Department of English who supported the establishment of the theatre department and played a major role in building the university’s rare book holdings, continues through a generous estate donation.

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