In a newly created position as Data Curation Librarian, Shahira Khair develops services and expertise to better manage and support faculty and graduate students with their research data management needs.
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The historic launch today of the world's first law degree to combine the study of Indigenous and non-Indigenous law welcomed the first cohort of 26 students from across Canada and acknowledged the efforts to establish the far-reaching response to Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
UVic PhD student Brian Pollick and his wife Heather Lindstedt worked closely with UVic Libraries to establish the Medieval Manuscript Fund, which has helped build one of the most extensive collections of medieval manuscripts west of Toronto. “I wanted to provide ways to give materiality to a bygone age,” says Pollick.
Engineering student Simon Park's Caboost invention—a trailer which converts any bicycle into an e-bike—helped him stand out to co-op recruiters at Tesla. Park is one of 44 UVic students who have secured co-ops with the energy and automobile technology company.
Event proposals for Ideafest 2019 are invited by Oct. 5.
On the 11th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Sept. 13, 2007), the Canadian Commission on UNESCO published this three-page quick-facts and tips guide to Indigenous languages in Canada.
Three UVic researchers have received 2018 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships—one of the federal government’s most prestigious scholarships for doctorial students and post-doctoral researchers. The scholarships are awarded on the basis of students’ extraordinary combination of academic excellence, research potential and leadership.
Three UVic faculty members have received the country’s highest academic honour, named 2018 fellows of the Royal Society of Canada: Benjamin Butterfield, Eike-Henner Kluge and Tim Stockwell.
Three University of Victoria faculty members have received the country’s highest academic honour, named 2018 fellows of the Royal Society of Canada.
Walking along the foothills of the northern Peruvian Amazon, 14 UVic environmental studies students—along with instructors Ana Maria Peredo and Kate Turner and mentors Murdith McLean and Frederique Apffel-Marglin—embarked on a unique learning experience this spring that wove together ecology, economy and spirituality in an Indigenous setting.
When Marie Cooper (SWETALIYE) received her Honorary Doctor of Education degree from UVic in 2010, it was a moment she had been steering toward her entire life. A teacher, counsellor, Elder, advocate and innovator, Dr. Cooper’s efforts to promote and defend Indigenous education, language and culture led to the inclusive transformation of educational policies and practices for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.
Could the world’s next large-scale neutrino detector be built at the bottom of the ocean? This summer, as part of its 2018 Wiring the Abyss expedition, Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is installing specialized equipment at its deepest site in the northeast Pacific Ocean to assess the location’s suitability for observing neutrinos
This fall, UVic students can beam into Edwin Hodge’s “The Sociology of Star Trek” (SOCI 390) or David Christopher’s “Star Wars: A Cultural History” (AHVS 392 A02) course. But what specifically makes these sci-fi mainstays worthy of study?
On Sept. 19, 2018, the official launch of the university’s new Strategic Framework will take place at the President's Campus Update, at noon in the Continuing Studies Building Atrium. Staff and faculty are invited to come and listen to a panel of their peers discuss what is already being done on campus to support the six strategic prioritiesand to identify opportunities for future implementation.
The Irving K. Barber BC Scholarship Society delivers a series of scholarship and award programs that support BC students throughout the province and outside the country. In 2018, 10 UVic students were awarded 33 per cent of the Premier’s awards, more than any other BC institution this year.
