Media: news releases

The 11th annual Victoria Leadership Awards took place Feb. 19 in Victoria. Bill Anderson and Bruce Parisian received the two UVic awards.

The 2015 VLAs will be awarded Feb. 19 at the Leadership Victoria gala. A valued friend of UVic—master carver, Songhees First Nation artist and educator Clarence “Butch” Dick—is this year's Lifetime Achievement award recipient.&

The University of Victoria has appointed Peter Kuran to lead the restructured management of its non-academic real estate properties, including the Vancouver Island Technology Park and Swans Hotel and Brew Pub.

Teaching professor Jin-Sun Yoon in the University of Victoria’s School of Child and Youth Care has been recognized for her exceptional teaching and educational leadership with the 2015 3M National Teaching Fellowship.

The following University of Victoria experts are available to discuss the provincial government’s 2015 budget announcement tomorrow: Elisabeth Gugl (Dept. of Economics) is an economist who teaches in the areas of labour economics, public finance and…

As carbon dioxide levels in the earth’s atmosphere continue to rise as a result of our burning fossil fuels, the water in our oceans is becoming more acidic. The results can be devastating for BC’s farmed shellfish, which rely on a certain chemical …

Do you have a painting signed G.T. Brown or initialed G.T.B.? Well over a century ago, in the 1880s, Grafton Tyler Brown was acclaimed as the first professional artist in BC and is famous as the first Black artist in the Pacific Northwest. A Univers…

A collaboration between students from the Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria and Our Place Society recommends changes to help enhance and improve food service operations. The organization serves 1,200 to 1,500 meals a day. “O…

The following University of Victoria experts are available to comment after the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling on euthanasia and assisted suicide, expected Friday, Feb. 6 at 9:45 a.m. EST: Eike-Henner Kluge (Faculty of Humanities) is a professor i…

“Hey, what’s up with your back-up beeper?” Some University of Victoria staff have been hearing that a lot lately as they operate service vehicles recently retrofitted with new reverse alarms. UVic is one of the first organizations on Vancouver Islan…

Chancellor Shelagh Rogers, OC, will be “In Conversation” with web industry leader and UVic alumnus Stewart Butterfield, BA ’96, on Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. in the University Centre Farquhar Auditorium.

Replacing fossil fuel investments with “green energy” stocks has minimal impact on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and is also unlikely to provide a safer haven for investors.