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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.

A new partnership between UVic's Faculty of Humanities and BC Corrections puts a powerful spin on experiential learning, with 10 UVic and 10 incarcerated students learning side-by-side about big issues including justice, free will and human nature.

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.

A total of eighteen UVic-connected athletes competed and helped Canada win one gold and six silver medals at the 2019 Pan American Games in August.

UVic is home to one of the largest international field schools in Canada. In 2018/19, UVic’s European Studies (EUS) program adopted the administrative responsibilities for the EU Study Tour. This year, 42 students from across North America travelled through Brussels, Frankfurt, Luxembourg and Strasbourg.

This spring, scholars from across Canada and Europe met at UVic to discuss issues related to democracy and populism from a comparative, transatlantic perspective.

As Canadians are preparing to fire up the grill for the last big weekend of the summer, it might come as a surprise to hear that we may be consuming as many calories in our beers as we are in our burgers, according to a recent study out of UVic’s Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research.

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.

Two exceptional BC high-school scholars have received prestigious national scholarship awards to begin post-secondary studies at the University of Victoria this September. Across Canada, 1,500 students were nominated for the Schulich Leader Scholarship and 50 received this celebrated award.

The SNC-Lavalin affair fails the scandal test – so far

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.

The release by Google of a new project involving Indigenous languages highlights an initiative led by UVic anthropologist Brian Thom and Indigenous languages teacher yutustanaat Mandy Jones (Snuneymuxw First Nation) including words, phrases, a proverb and songs in the Hul'q'umi'num' language.

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.

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.

What do two small BC towns have in common with Nanjing and Tokyo? The answer lies in the transformative experiences of two UVic co-op students.

Psychologists rely on a gold standard of clinical treatments for a wide range of conditions from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder to adult ADHD. Now new research by social psychologist John Sakaluk and his colleague at University of Kansas is calling into question some of the statistics supporting these psychotherapies.