Many consider baseball to be one of the most difficult skills in any sport. So, what makes a batter successful? Some think it requires that the athlete be in “the zone”—a mental state in which performance is optimal. But what is “the zone”? Can it be quantified? Olav Krigolson, UVic neuroscientist, paired up with Anthony Pluta, a pro-ball-player-turned-grad-student to find out.
Researcher Art Olin is part of an international collaboration investigating the secrets of antimatter – an elusive substance that may hold answers to unsolved problems in physics and related to the formation of the universe.
Two outstanding young scholars from the Cowichan Valley and North Vancouver are this year's recipients of the highest value scholarships offered to undergraduate students entering UVic directly from high school.
Two outstanding young scholars from the Cowichan Valley and North Vancouver are this year's recipients of the highest value scholarships offered to undergraduate students entering UVic directly from high school.
Olav Krigolson, a neuroscientist with the University of Victoria’s Centre for Biomedical Research, and professional baseball veteran and graduate student, Anthony Pluta, used portable brainwave technology to see if they could predict baseball batting performance.
The $7-million renovation project that will turn a former religious order residence into UVic's new ocean and climate research campus has moved into the seismic upgrading phase.
A group of 17 UVic anthropology students went back to the Stone Age working with bone, shell, obsidian, stone and wood to make hand tools and spear-like weapons that are thrown with a spear thrower, known as the atlatl.
Nine students traveled to Europe this May on the annual EU Study Tour. Offered through UVic's European studies program, the tour includes visits to Brussels, Luxembourg, Strasbourg and Frankfurt. One student, Anna Dodd, describes how the experiences overseas are now influencing her future choices.
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UVic students are currently visiting historic sites in Europe in a field school examining migration, the refugee crisis and memorialization of the Holocaust. And the learning doesn't stop in Europe: they'll be at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in mid August, then home to UVic for a symposium.
Forest ecologist Jill Harvey, who graduated from UVic with a PhD in geography and whose research was recently published in two peer-reviewed journals, is available for comment to media about the wildfires burning in central BC and on forest management practices that could help in future.
Unraveling the mysteries of proteins whose changed structures cause conditions such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease is key to the development of new drug treatments for difficult neurological disorders, says University of Victoria biochemist Christoph Borchers.
UVic's popular running track at Centennial Stadium is getting a new surface this summer, thanks to funding from Western Economic Diversification Canada as part of Canada 150 Celebrates. The federal contribution is $254,000.
A new research program led by marine ecologist John Volpe and grad student Stefania Gorgopa is a great opportunity for scuba divers to get involved as citizen scientists. The UVic researchers are turning to the local sport diving community for help conducting surveys of marine fish populations around Victoria and the Gulf Islands.
Intermedia artist and UVic visual arts chair Paul Walde dove into the waters of Algonquin Park's Canoe Lake on July 8 and, after months of preparation, completed the first stage of The Tom Thomson Centennial Swim.
This fall, seven exquisite stained glass windows designed by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright and owned by UVic since 1968, will be returned in excellent condition to their original setting in Buffalo, NY on this 150th anniversary year of Wright's birth.
