Approximately 100 people including friends of the late Michael Williams attended the Nov. 17 naming ceremony of the Michael Williams Building, followed by unveiling of the new sign and ceremonial blessing of song, drumming and dance by the Copper Maker Dancers with Chief Calvin Hunt and his family.
A pilot project for treating students with acute mental health issues through UVic Health Services has significantly reduced wait times, allowing at-risk students to get the help they need more quickly.
Every two weeks since September, a research team on the UVic research vessel MSV John Strickland has been venturing into the inlet to collect water samples at various depths (roughly 300 litres per day) to measure the levels of everything from dissolved gases and trace metals to phytoplankton and microbes.
UVic Law PhD student Aaron Mills was awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Talent award. The award is given to a single student each year across all the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences in Canada whose research "brings forward ideas that help us understand and improve the world around us." Mills' work is at the forefront of the movement to restore and revitalize Indigenous systems of law.
UVic Law PhD student Aaron Mills received the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Talent award—one of its five “Impact Awards”—at a ceremony in Ottawa today. Mills’ work is at the forefront of the movement to restore and revitalize Indigenous systems of law, one of the central recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report.
Oceanographers from around the world are hoping to learn more about the science of “dead zones,” thanks to a UVic-led research project currently taking place in Saanich Inlet near Victoria.
E. Paul Zehr and Bruce Wright survey the 10 big screen versions of Batman movies and assess each fight, accident and incident involving the Dark Knight for possible exposure to concussive impact.In the paper “Can Concussion Constrain the Caped Crusader?” the authors use Batman to highlight the cumulative effect of repetitive head injury.
It’s always gratifying to have data-driven, third party recognition of UVic's global research impact. Thomson Reuters' 2016 list of the world’s most highly cited researchers includes climate statistician Francis Zwiers, of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, as well as two previously recognized researchers: mechanical engineer Yang Shi and business professor Roy Suddaby.
Couples Overcoming PTSD Everyday (COPE) was co-founded by UVic psychologist Tim Black to help veterans transition to civilian life. Black will present his program evaluation in Vancouver on Nov. 22 during Forum 2016, which is co-hosted by the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research, UBC and UVic.
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The newly named Michael Williams Building honours the legacy and generosity of the devoted philanthropist, heritage property developer and patron of the arts whose estate is the single largest donation from an individual to UVic, supporting its academic mission for generations of students.
A research group at the University of Victoria can now detect the presence of invasive species in water or soil using environmental DNA—giving humans a better chance at defending the ecological balance of delicate habitat.
UVic experts Bruce Wallace (Centre for Addictions Research/Social Work) and Bernie Pauly (Centre for Addictions Research/Nursing) are available to media to discuss the Vancouver Island Health Authority’s expected announcement of the proposed locations of supervised consumption sites.
A study by researchers at the Centre for Addictions Research at UVic and Australia's National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University provides new evidence of a significant relationship between alcohol consumption and the risk of prostate cancer: the more you drink, the greater your risk.
In a recent issue of the journal Biology Letters, UVic biologist Rana El-Sabaawi leads a paper that cautions against using guppies as a form of mosquito control, saying the method is not only ineffective, but also causes severe ecological damage.
UVic's Fall Convocation ceremonies, marking the successful completion of studies for 1,379 graduating students, will be held Wednesday and Thursday (at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. each day) in the University Centre Farquhar Auditorium. A number of outstanding members of the graduating class are available to talk to the media.
