Campus Kudos

Lawrence Lu & Peter Cassar — Facilities Management Waste Reduction

• helping the university manage and keep up with the ever-changing COVID-19 pandemic health and safety protocols in extremely short timelines so the university could continue to serve our students.

Rob Hancock — Anthropology & Office of Indigenous Academic and Community Engagement

• going above and beyond to be an agent of change at UVic in support of Indigenization and decolonization across the institution and for mentoring Indigenous students, staff and faculty.

Alexandrine Bourealt-Fournier — Anthropology

• work and scholarship in the service of Anthropology while teaching grad and undergrad courses, acting as Chair and honours advisor, and editing Anthropologica journal.

Marc Bavin — Office of Global Engagement
Robyn Fila — Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives

• developing successful grant proposals that resulted in $1 million for student mobility programs.

Tine Lathouwers — Human Resources

• swiftly assembling the campus Rapid Antigen Testing Clinic while handling a huge caseload of Remote Work Agreement requests.

Carolyn Choo, Timothy O'Gorman, Simon Farrow, Bert Timmermans & Michael Caudwell — Theatre, Libraries & Facilities Management

• quickly and creatively lighting the Mearns Centre for Learning — McPherson Library in orange to reflect UVic's commitment to truth and reconciliation, and to display our grief and solidarity with Indigenous communities across the country. 

Bruce Ravelli — Sociology

• scholarly and teaching contributions that inspire students and demonstrate how sociology can help promote a better world.

Jeanie Gunn, Jennifer Wong, Morgan Slavkin, Mira Cvitanovic — Ceremonies and Events
Alex Solunac, Flemming Sorvin, Luke Mynott, Mike Thomas, Jeff Birmingham, Jordan Forbes, Eugene Deen — University Systems AV Tech

• amazing and knowledgeable assistance in running events and for quickly becoming experts in delivering remote and hybrid events during the pandemic.

Danielle Mulligan — Development

• leading UVic's Giving Tuesday campaign to greater and greater heights each year and receiving the CASE Rising Star Award in Philanthropy for her early career successes.

Liz Eby, Samantha Krzywonos, Amanda Taylor, Nicole Boulet & Danielle Mulligan — Development

• working during the pandemic to receive their Certified Fund Raising Executive designations.

Samantha Knudson — Fine Arts

• consistently demonstrating compassion and collegiality in all of her work. She made it possible to hold in-person classes during the pandemic; provided supports to students unable to travel home over the holidays due to travel restrictions and was instrumental in welcoming four Syrian musicians.

Steve Gorham — Human Resources

• working with openness, authenticity and outstanding commitment to making UVic a positive and productive place to work for everyone.

Neil Burford — Acting Associate Dean Academic, Faculty of Science & Professor, Department of Chemistry

• a long career of service, leadership and mentorship in his department and faculty, at UVic and across the scientific community

Mike Figursky — Manager, Production Services, Farquhar Auditorium

• research and leadership in developing safe work plans that allowed the Farquhar to continue to serve the School of Music and host the Victoria Symphony’s virtual season

Anne Hung — English student

• led a team of multi-year students to develop a peer mentorship project for over 80 incoming students who wouldn’t be able to meet other students during COVID-19

Fawzan Hussain — Engineering student

• first-year engineering student who used 3D printers to create and deliver 1,545 pieces of personal protective equipment to over 30 organizations across B.C. during the pandemic. Fawzan received the BC Medal of Good Citizenship!

International Student Services Team — Tricia Best and Carmencita Duna

• provided welcome, supports and community to international students during the pandemic through self-isolation assistance, virtual engagement and peer-to-peer connection programs

Rob Iuvalé — Supervisor, Science Stores, Faculty of Science

• supporting his team while helping to keep lab research going during COVID-19

Dean Karlen — Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy

• developing a new, highly successful, statistical model for COVID-19 epidemiology

David Leitch — Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

• organized a team to produce hundreds of litres of Health Canada approved hand sanitizer that was donated to local hospitals

Michael Lines — Learning and Research Librarian, UVic Libraries

• making connections between local schools and the university since 2014 with his Bookbinding for Kids workshops

Andy Mavretic — Director, Occupational Health, Safety & Environment, Human Resources

• coordinating the creation and implementation of the over 700 safe work plans that have kept us safe working on campus during COVID-19

Office of Student Life Team — Priyanka Lopez, Gavin Gao, Raquel Slotten, Angi Ross

• developed the New Student Connect Program that provided an online university community to over 3,000 first-year students from all over the world

Residence Services Team — Kathryn McLeod, Chad Dalrymple, Rose Marie Roxburgh, Terry Forst

• responsible for bringing 840 first-year students to live on campus this year and supporting their student experience with innovative and safe student life programming

Joni Richardson — Programmer, Intramurals & Outdoor Recreation, VIKES Athletics

• instrumental in developing an approach to virtual esports/video gaming participation that is now taking seed with other institutions and grabbing hold in the rest of Canada