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Budget 2018 has the largest investment in science and university research in Canadian history to support researchers and their facilities.

In September 2017, President Jamie Cassels launched a Global Reputation and Rankings Project to ensure that UVic's global impact is being accurately assessed by international university rankings such as QS and Times Higher Education.

As cases of substance use and mental illness continue to rise across Canada, the City of Victoria is having success with integrating police officers into health care on Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams, according to a new report by UVic psychologists Catherine Costigan and Erica Woodin.

Research culminating in a Street Fighter tournament Jan. 26 at UVic put a different spin on video game culture. Humanities Dean Chris Goto-Jones, who started the project in 2010, has found that far from causing more violence, fighting games are a form of martial art that can make us better people.

Visiting the K’ómoks First Nation

Antibiotic apocalyses, science of quakes, ultrasound technology for Indigenous languages? This is just some of what'll be explored March 5-10 at Ideafest 2018, with more than 40 events showcasing our research, innovation and creativity with panels, workshops, exhibits, performances, screenings and tours.

Since 2014, UVic's Ocean Networks Canada has been installing smaller community observatories on Vancouver Island, along the BC coast and in the Arctic, partnering with First Nations and coastal communities to measure ship traffic, weather, underwater acoustics and more.

Ask an Expert: Anti-Bullying

On Feb. 20 the provincial government tabled Budget 2018 which includes support of a UVic law program that will be the first of its kind in the world, funding for tuition waivers for former youth in care and a change in the policies for financing of student housing, which will help with the construction of a new UVic residence.

UVic law students to study Canadian and Indigenous legal systems

Pink Shirt Day is on Feb. 28. UVic psychologist Bonnie Leadbeater is available to speak to media about bullying prevention. Since 2008, the CKNW Orphans’ Fund has hosted the annual anti-bullying campaign Pink Shirt Day in Vancouver. This year's focus is on cyber bullying.

The University of Victoria is now officially a Fair Trade Campus. The Canadian Fair Trade Network presented the designation certificate at an event at BiblioCafé on Feb. 21.

A new law program at the University of Victoria is the world's first to combine the intensive study of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous law, enabling people to work fluently across the two realms. Students will graduate with two professional degrees, one in Canadian Common Law (Juris Doctor or 'JD') and one in Indigenous Legal Orders (Juris Indigenarum Doctor or 'JID').

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The practice of providing alcohol to people with severe alcohol dependence is a complex and sometimes controversial approach to harm-reduction. For the first time, a peer-reviewed journal has compiled the largest collection of peer-reviewed articles on these managed alcohol programs, led by UVic's Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research.

Seven UVic experts are available to media for comment on the BC budget—to be revealed Feb. 20—with particular focus on housing, homelessness, poverty, health inequity, seniors care, family economics, childhood education and income assistance, as well as implications for tourism, entrepreneurship and business.