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The UVic Edge is where dynamic learning and vital impact meet, in Canada's most extraordinary environment for discovery and innovation. Together, these elements nurture creative activity and ground us in the urgency of sustainability and healthy societies; shape our world view with Indigenous and international perspectives; and fuel our commitment to economic well-being, technological advances and social justice.
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Hands-on experiences integrated with research-inspired teaching accelerates personal growth and career success.
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As an internationally renowned research hub we tackle essential issues that matter—to people, places and the planet.
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Discovery, creativity and innovation come naturally here, in a vibrant Pacific Rim community rich with Indigenous and international perspectives.
Take a tourThe Edge in action
Our talented, career-ready students and internationally renowned researchers are driving change around the world.
Healing through connection
A decades-old collection of children’s paintings gives new perspectives on the residential school experience—and adds hope for making things right. UVic visual anthropologist Andrea Walsh works in collaboration with First Nations on Vancouver Island in a community-led research project that focuses on the children’s paintings from the Alberni Indian Residential School, 1959 to 1966.
Wiring the abyss
In summer 2016, UVic’s world-leading Ocean Networks Canada embarked on its most challenging mission ever—a two-month, three-ship expedition into the Pacific that significantly expanded the footprint and research capacity of its seafloor observatories. This video talks about the “Wiring the Abyss” expedition. To learn more about Ocean Networks Canada visit http://www.oceannetworks.ca/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ocean_networks | Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OceanNetwork...
Victoria Hand Project
The "Victoria Hand" is a project of the University of Victoria’s Biomedical Design and Systems Laboratory. Led by Dr. Nikolai Dechev, the Victoria Hand Project (VHP) is a not-for-profit that’s designing and distributing low-cost ($350), high-functioning, upper limb 3D-printed prostheses to people in need. Working with organizations which have established relationships on the ground in Guatemala (Range of Motion Project) and Nepal (Kathmandu Orthopaedic Hospital), Joshua Coutts—BEng ’14—is a research associate for ongoing field trials. The Victoria Hand Project: http://www.victoriahandproject.com/ Biomedical Design and Systems Laboratory: http://web.uvic.ca/~bdsl/ UVic's YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/uvic University of Victoria: http://uvic.ca
TreeRover, the tree-planting robot
Many students spend their summers tromping through slash-piles and battling blackflies to replant Canada's forests. Two University of Victoria engineering undergrads took a different approach: they built a tree-planting robot with the idea of supplementing the humans' hard work. “TreeRover" is the brainchild of two third year UVic electrical engineering students, Nick Birch and Tyler Rhodes. As part of an entrepreneurial co-op work term, they merged their love for the forests of Vancouver Island with their passion for sustainable technologies by forming a company—Iota Enterprises—to build this prototype of a reforestation robot. UVic YouTube Channel: http://youtube.com/uvic Learn more about Co-op: http://uvic.ca/coopandcareer
Never forget - UVic's Holocaust Field School
Students, faculty and a Holocaust survivor discuss the importance of passing the torch to the next generation, to ensure this atrocity in human history never happens again. UVic's YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/uvic University of Victoria: http://uvic.ca Field School information: https://uvic.ca/humanities/germanicslavic/undergraduate/home/fieldschool/See more videos from the Video Gallery - Edge playlist on YouTube.