UVic team’s breakthrough makes a highly durable industrial plastic accessible for wider use in automobiles and other applications. Jeremy Wulff’s team has synthesized a plastic that could replace metal to make vehicles lighter and more fuel efficient.
Grieving orca highlights plight of endangered whales
A durable industrial plastic adapted by a University of Victoria chemist for use in vehicle components could be a vital step toward lighter vehicle weights and greater energy efficiency.
UVic historian Jason Colby is a specialist on the history of people and marine mammals in the Pacific Northwest and is available to offer media an expert perspective on the crisis facing the endangered southern resident killer whale population, with the recent loss of the J-pod calf.
As part of the Ye'yumnuts project initiated by Cowichan Tribes in 2017, UVic anthropologist Brian Thom and his graduate students were invited to partner with Elders, school district staff and others to commemorate an ancient ancestral site in the Cowichan Valley and to develop interpretive materials and school curriculum resources.
President Jamie Cassels, QC was featured on the July 2018 cover of the Advocate magazine, a resource for lawyers and legal scholars throughout British Columbia. The cover of each issue is a unique work of art and each portrait features an individual who has had an impact on the BC legal community.
The UVic Peloton - Ride to Conquer Cancer team has grown to 26 members, including staff, two students, a former Chancellor Emeritus and a few community members. To date they've raised just over $62,000 for the 2018 Ride to Conquer Cancer on Aug. 25-26.
International experts gathered at UVic this year to offer solutions for a modernized Columbia River Treaty that reconciles Indigenous rights. The one-day symposium brought together approximately 200 participants from both sides of the border.
Scientists test waters for large-scale physics experiment
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ONC is installing specialized instrumentation at Cascadia Basin, 2,700 metres below sea level in the northeast Pacific Ocean, during Expedition 2018: Wiring the Abyss to assess the location’s suitability for observing one of the universe’s most essential and difficult-to-study ingredients—neutrinos.
A new era is set to begin for the UVic Vikes women's rowing program, after naming Olympian and former Vikes men's rower Barney Williams as program leader. Williams will take charge of the program following the recent retirement of Rick Crawley.
UVic Indigenous studies student Kevin Perkins is wrapping up three co-op work terms with a First Nations-run Crown Corporation that supports the revitalization of Indigenous languages, culture and heritage in BC. He’s also part of the cohort of students who pushed UVic’s co-op and career program past 85,000 co-op term placements since 1976.
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As an Indigenous student, Kevin Perkins wanted related work experience that aligned with his heritage and career goals and to give back to the community. He found that blend of academics and paid, culturally relevant work through the world’s only dedicated Indigenous co-op program.
Efforts by UVic geographer Dr. David Chuenyan Lai directly resulted in Victoria’s Chinatown being restored and celebrated, rather than demolished.
