News & events

Alejandra Zubiria Perez, who graduates this month with a master's in geography, focused her UVic studies on grizzly bear behavior.

Twenty-two BCom students in Gustavson’s International Business specialization program are still enjoying a global exchange—virtually—despite the global pandemic and travel restrictions.

A recent report facilitated by the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives and UVic Law calls on Canada to take immediate and robust action on justice for the Rohingya.

In this spring’s whirlwind of COVID-19 responses, the Student Services team at Continuing Studies went to extraordinary lengths to make sure more than 300 international students remained informed and well-supported.

Six UVic students – representing three faculties – participated in an international competition that required teams to design a way to predict and monitor COVID-19 and other outbreaks.

In spring 2020 four students and two instructors started meeting weekly online to talk about a post-COVID world, creating the COVIDA collective.

Nine years after transferring to UVic as an undergraduate student, Chris Bruce is leaving with a PhD in Mathematics and a prestigious NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship.

On the same day German student Isabelle Staiger landed in Victoria for her UVic internship, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Canada was closing its borders. This is her story – of virtual colleagues, a cancelled honeymoon, routine visits to the beach and a red bike that became her friend.

The John and Myrtle Tilley Graduate Scholarship helps one of UVic’s first civil engineering PhD students research water accessibility issues in Malawi.

Three delegates from UVic landed in India just ahead of the 150th anniversary of Gandhi’s birth for an international symposium organized by UVic’s Budd Hall and UNESCO co-chair Rajesh Tandon to explore concepts of community-based research in the context of Gandhian principles.

Three artists are transforming the stories of Holocaust survivors into graphic novels to share lasting lessons with new generations as part of an international project to illuminate one of the darkest periods in human history, led by Holocaust historian and UVic scholar Charlotte Schallie.

Victoria-raised biochemistry student Rory Hills grew up on the West Coast, surrounded by the smell of pine and ocean spray. This extraordinary environment formed his love for science early in life, driving his steady desire to use science to help solve society's toughest problems including the opioid crisis and climate change.