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UVic comes together in sorrow and support

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Approximately 300 people gathered in the heart of the University of Victoria’s campus on Sept. 17 to be with each other for comfort, healing and reflection following the devastating bus accident in which two students died and several were injured.

Short-term investment policies to get update

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In its continuing commitment to promote a sustainable future, the university is updating two policies related to its investments and is inviting feedback from interested faculty, staff and students. Goals of the review include continuing to achieve UVic’s investment objectives, updating responsible investment practices and aligning each of the policies within the university’s Strategic Framework. Consultations will continue through October.

Money and scandals in Canada

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UVic historian Penny Bryden knows what riles Canadian voters. For her five-year research project, she is focusing on political scandals in Canada. And her preliminary findings, released Sept. 11, proves that taxpayer pocketbooks are most sacrosanct in the true North.

Royal Society of Canada elects UVic researchers

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Four University of Victoria researchers in the fields of social sciences and humanities have been elected to the Royal Society of Canada.

Seitzinger to become AGU Fellow

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Sybil Seitzinger, executive director of the UVic-led Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, will be among the 62 scientists honoured as fellows at the American Geophysical Union’s meeting this December in California.

Strategic Framework initiatives making an impact

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Following a call for proposals in the spring, nine UVic initiatives have received funding of $294,551 in the first year of the new Strategic Framework Impact Fund. The fund provides up to $300,000 per year to strategic initiatives that are directly related to implementing the priorities of the Strategic Framework 2018-2023.

STARS gold for sustainability

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UVic has been rated as one of North America’s most sustainable universities, according to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

In Memoriam: T’łat’laḵuł Trish Rosborough

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It is with very heavy hearts that we share the news of the passing of T’łat’laḵuł Trish (Patricia) Rosborough on August 15, 2019. Dr. Rosborough, from the Kwakiutl First Nation, was an Associate Professor in UV…

UVic honours Orange Shirt Day on Sept. 30, 2019

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For the third year, UVic will hold an Orange Shirt Day observation in the quad. Orange Shirt Day brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the spirit of reconciliation to honour Indian residential school survivors and their families.

Ceremony welcomes Indigenous faculty members

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At a ceremony in the First Peoples House Ceremonial Hall, several Indigenous faculty asked permission to work in the traditional territory of the Esquimalt and Songhees peoples.

New class at VI correctional centre

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Philosophy undergrad Madeleine Kenyon will be among 10 UVic students who will join their counterparts on the “inside” for a first-of-its-kind philosophy course at the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre (VIRCC), more commonly known as the Wilkinson Road jail.

President's fund for students heading overseas

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The President's Beyond Borders Fund, established in 2015 for supporting UVic students overseas in the Asia Pacific region, will now continue for another two academic years (2019/20 and 2020/21) including support for internships, field schools and co-op placements in the region.

In memoriam: John Money

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John Money, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Victoria, died on 26 July 2019 at the age of 80. John was “a historian’s historian” in all the best senses of that overused phrase.

Hul’q’umi’num’ language and Google Earth

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An initiative led by anthropologist Brian Thom and Indigenous languages teacher yutustanaat Mandy Jones (Snuneymuxw First Nation) is a highlight of a new Google project featuring 55 Indigenous languages in 27 countries and was launched on the UN’s International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.

Explore campus, learn French with new AR game

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Bernadette Perry, a PhD student in French, has spent hundreds of hours honing Explorez, her new French-language video game that helps students reinforce their language skills while exploring the UVic campus.

Rare plant thrives in campus teaching garden

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A cluster of rare pink star-shaped blossoms will soon be blooming in UVic’s David Turpin Native Plant garden— planted earlier this spring by ethnobotanist Fiona Hamersley Chambers and her environmental studies students. The Pink Sand Verbena, a federally red-listed endangered species, was considered extinct in Canada until it was rediscovered in 2000 along a beach on the BC West Coast Trail.

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UVic comes together in sorrow and support

Short-term investment policies to get update

Money and scandals in Canada

Royal Society of Canada elects UVic researchers

Seitzinger to become AGU Fellow

Strategic Framework initiatives making an impact

STARS gold for sustainability

In Memoriam: T’łat’laḵuł Trish Rosborough

UVic honours Orange Shirt Day on Sept. 30, 2019

Ceremony welcomes Indigenous faculty members

New class at VI correctional centre

President's fund for students heading overseas

In memoriam: John Money

Hul’q’umi’num’ language and Google Earth

Explore campus, learn French with new AR game

Rare plant thrives in campus teaching garden