The university is establishing the Learning from Each Other fund to provide meaningful engagement with Elders and opportunities for learning Indigenous ways of knowing to students, faculty and staff.
Ryan Beaton is not your typical law student. He likes to stir things up and ask the big questions no one else wants to ask, like "Why are we doing it this way?" and "Is this really working?" His approach can make him unpopular in a room full of lawyers, but right at home in academia.
Michael Lines has a passion for the history of the book. That's why, in addition to his role at UVic Libraries as a learning and research librarian, he leads bookbinding workshops for younger students.
Contemporary artist and newly retired visual arts professor Sandra Meigs has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC)— Canada's highest academic honour.
UVic has begun planning for a new residence to provide muchneeded housing for undergraduate students. It's the first significant capital project since the Campus Plan vision was renewed in 2016.
Fibre-optic cables, power lines and ecological impact are key factors in how music is produced and consumed. On Sept. 8, anthropologist Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier with colleagues Joseph Salem and Jentery Sayers will join researchers from Europe, Asia and the Americas for the sound of music.
The university is in the early stages of implementing UVic's new sexualized violence policy with creation of a central resource office, hiring of a coordinator of education and response and production of user-friendly materials to support the policy's goals and objectives.
The university's new policy on sexualized violence prevention and response is being implemented through Equity and Human Rights with a central resource office where all members of the university community can seek advice and direct referrals and/or disclose or make a report of a sexualized violence incident. The policy was developed after a year of extensive consultations and research.
Two UVic alumni who went on to found the innovative non-profit Fish Eye Project led a live dive Aug. 27 in the icy waters of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, as part of the Canada C3 expedition.
Students from the humanities, social sciences, fine arts and law—now back in Victoria after a transformative trip overseas and also in Winnipeg—came together for a powerful and challenging field school that brought them to historic sites in Europe and taught them valuable lessons about Canada.
Norman Ruff was an inspiration to generations of young scholars at UVic. As a political scientist, his learned, intuitive commentary was a staple of news coverage and analysis during numerous elections.
Two University of Victoria alumni who went on to found the innovative Fish Eye Project are headed for Cambridge Bay, Nunavut next week for a live dive in Arctic waters that will be broadcast simultaneously across the country as part of the Canada C3 expedition.
The University of Victoria is hosting a solar eclipse open house at the Observatory that will allow the public to safely and clearly view the eclipse, the first since 1979 to cast a visible shadow across a band of the North America continent.
A UVic researcher studying the epidemic of HIV and sexually transmitted infection in B.C. among men who have sex with men is one of 20 health researchers in the province selected by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research for a 2017 Scholar Award.
Five UVic projects, with $823,000 in new funding from a leadership fund from the Canada Foundation for Innovation as part of a $52-million federal investment announced Aug. 15, will carry out ground-breaking research including in an aquatic disease research facility at UVic.
Alan Pence, former director of UVic's School of Child and Youth Care, is focusing on enhancing policies for early childhood education in sub-Saharan Africa through a new UNESCO co-chair arrangement with Hasina Banu Ebrahim, a Muslim scholar from the University of South Africa.
