Sustainability
Advancing the power grid
Diving into coral research
Making artisanal mining safer and more sustainable
Perfecting a powerful polymer
Banting fellows shed light on Indigenous language, orca survival
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UVic chemist Dennis Hore and his research team are investigating materials they hope will make up the next generation insulators for the electrical power grid.
PhD student Danielle Claar studies the human impact on coral reefs’ symbiotic relationships with algae and other organisms.
Graduates Keri Graumann and Dheeraj Alamchandani are using the tools and techniques of engineering as a way to advance social justice and global sustainability in artisanal
mining.
UVic team’s breakthrough makes a highly durable industrial plastic accessible for wider use in automobiles and other applications. Jeremy Wulff’s team has synthesized a plastic
that could replace metal to make vehicles lighter and more fuel efficient.
An endangered Indigenous language and an endangered West Coast wildlife icon stand to benefit from the work of two new Banting Postdoctoral Fellows at UVic. Valued at $70,000 per
year for two years, the fellowships are intended to groom Canada's next generation of research leaders.