On July 12, UVic announced the return of its Frank Lloyd Wright art glass to Martin House, a public landmark and architectural masterpiece designed by Wright in the early 20th century in Buffalo, New York. Before it goes home, it will be displayed in a Legacy Downtown exhibition till mid September.
An impassioned community volunteer who knows what it's like to live on the streets, and a legal scholar who wants to change how the legal system deals with Aboriginal land claims are two UVic students receiving three-year doctoral scholarships, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation announced today.
A meeting with the National Council of Science and Technology of the United Mexican States (CONACyT) has resulted in an agreement between UVic and CONACyT that will allow funded graduate students to study at UVic and support Mexican fellows for research visits at UVic.
Tracking the salmon-eating habits of grizzly and black bears for nearly two decades has revealed some surprising results for UVic geography PhD candidate and Raincoast scientist Megan Adams. She hopes the study will inform land-use managers on how the bear-salmon system goes well beyond the coastal areas into interior habitats of BC.
A UVic PhD candidate is garnering international headlines for work that throws cold water on a hot theory about a ninth planet. "It may well turn out that there is another planet out there, but in our survey we find no evidence requiring an extra planet in the outer solar system to explain what we’re seeing."
A UVic team led by neuroscientist Craig Brown has found that stimulating brain circuits with light can improve recovery from a stroke. Study results were published June 23 in Nature Communications.
On July 8, the 100th anniversary of Tom Thomson’s death, Paul Walde will swim across Canoe Lake, accompanied by a synchronized swim squad, canoe flotilla and brass band. Walde, chair of UVic's visual arts department, intends to reframe the early 20th-century artist’s legacy and images of Canada in a future installation.
The university flag will be lowered on June 22 in memory of former Chair of the Board of Governors, Dr. Ian Stewart. A Celebration of Life will be held at the University Club on July 31.
Creating social change is slow, challenging and often discouraging-but a class of environmental studies students took up the challenge with surprising results. Students in ES 407, "Mindfulness, Sustainability and Social Change," undertook community action projects in groups that ended up raising over $10,000 for good causes locally and internationally.
Aaron Devor is available to media to discuss the Canadian Senate's historic passage of Bill C-16 that adds protection of gender identity and expression to Canada's Human Rights Act.
Ian Stewart, former chair of the UVic Board of Governors, a close friend, benefactor and a keen supporter of UVic athletics, has died at the age of 84. A well-known and respected leader in the community, Stewart was actively involved in numerous charitable and philanthropic organizations.
UVic's Norah McRae has been awarded the Mr. Donald MacLaren, Jr. Award for Professional Achievement in Co-operative and Work-Integrated Education from the World Association for Co-operative Education. This is the first time that a Canadian has received the award since 1999.
Derek Denis, a post-doctorate fellow in UVic's linguistics department, is available to media for comment on the origins of the word “eh” and why Canadians throw this little two-letter word onto the end of sentences.
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UVic and Global Affairs Canada join forces in November to highlight diversity and inclusion in the 21st century. The inaugural Victoria Forum brings together business leaders, visionaries, politicians, youth, and civil society leaders to stimulate new thinking and action.
Hundreds of citizen scientists from around the world participated in a recent study counting deep-water sablefish off the Tofino coast. That’s a lot of eyes focused on the deep.
