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.
When Saeed Rahman set out to understand how businesses can advance sustainability efforts through better integration of ecological knowledge, he turned first to farmers. What he found was that most agricultural organizations were using a different sustainability lexicon than businesses in other industries.
The Fertile Shore: How Humans came to America
As 2019 swings to a close, we’re looking back at 12 months of captivating stories which helped shape a year of great news on UVic people, projects, ideas, creativity and research. Here are some of the many stories online, in print, on TV and radio, that were talked about on campus and well beyond our borders.
In 2019, UVic shared many stories about the university’s international activities, people, research and achievements—on campus, in the wider community and well beyond our borders. One of these is a story on four stories and food sovereignty in four countries.
Clean water, essential to global health, is the focus of two Civil Engineering research groups.
Writing grad parlays a passion for storytelling into helping others unlock their creativity.
For three years, Faculty of Humanities Dean Chris Goto-Jones has been teaching a free, online course through Leiden University called Demystifying Mindfulness. More than 112,000 people have so far enrolled in the massive open online course (MOOC). Here, Goto-Jones explains the origins, contemporary interest and the continuing evolution of mindfulness in the health sector.
UVic is working with multi-disciplinary health-science teams across Canada to create safer, more effective drugs.
Researchers with UVic's Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research say warning labels are the best way of communicating alcohol’s health risks.
A new UVic study is looking at the potential effects of combining substances such as alcohol and cannabis during early pregnancy. The work is on the heels of the legalization of medical and recreational cannabis in Canada.
Theatre grad Tiffany Tjosvold’s Embrace Arts Foundation ushers in a new stage of dance training for mixed- ability artists.
Ben Gingerich builds his specialty coffee company with a strong dose of pure hustle.
A Q&A with Dr. Irehobhude (Ireh) Iyioha, a new faculty member at UVic Law whose research interests include health law.
Sandra Frey, MA grad in the School of Environmental Studies, received the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation–Master’s for her breakthrough work with wildlife camera data collection as an early warning system to detect and prevent wildlife decline, and manage land-use policies.
A UVic hydrologist is one of an international group of scientists and experts who are calling for action to protect global groundwater resources—which makes up 99 per cent of the Earth's liquid freshwater. Tom Gleeson is lead author of a Nature Correspondence article published this week that says we are not doing enough to protect and manage global groundwater resources from contamination, salinization, depletion and neglect.
