UVic honours seven community leaders
The University of Victoria's Spring 2021 honorary degree recipients are: Josh Blair, Barry Gough, Eric Metcalfe, Teresa Petrick, Bruce Poon Tip, Marvin Storrow and Pauline van den Driessche.
The University of Victoria's Spring 2021 honorary degree recipients are: Josh Blair, Barry Gough, Eric Metcalfe, Teresa Petrick, Bruce Poon Tip, Marvin Storrow and Pauline van den Driessche.
Plans to repurpose the former Queenswood Retreat Centre making way for a new child care centre at the University of Victoria's Queenswood Campus are moving forward due to funding announced today by the Government of British Columbia.
The 2021 Gustavson Brand Trust Index reveals a dramatic shift in consumer loyalty and purchase considerations.
Associate Vice President Indigenous Robina Thomas grounds her work in the fundamental principle of engaging in a meaningful and respectful way. She began this new role at UVic on April 1.
UVic-led Climate Finance project to expand the potential of the finance and investment sector to support the transition to a climate-friendly, low-carbon economy.
PhD theatre candidate Dennis Gupa is exploring how to apply the tools of theatre, performance and drama in grappling with global warming especially with its impact on the island nations of the world.
UVic's working capital fund is free of fossil-fuel investments with the move of $80 million to a short-term bond fund that focuses on reducing the carbon intensity of investments within the pool.
New UVic research led by a UVic masters student Marisa Harrington, and her supervisor Lynneth Stuart-Hill, is studying the physiological impacts of stress on Victoria-area hospital nurses. Early results are showing that participants’ stress responses are significant.
An inspiring gift of $1.875M from political activist Wayne Crookes will help address climate change by supporting the new Wayne Crookes Professorship in Environmental and Climate Journalism.
A $1 million project to help the communities of Vancouver and Squamish on BC’s South Coast prepare and adapt for sea level rise and flooding has been announced by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions based at the University of Victoria.
University of Victoria biologists have discovered how some corals managed to survive a globally unprecedented heatwave, in a first-ever study that provides new hope for the long-term survival of coral reefs in the face of climate change.
UVic has invested $500,000 into the Raven Fund in support of Indigenous enterprises as catalysts for social change and prosperity. It is the university’s first impact investment