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Single-stall washrooms will soon be identified with gender-inclusive universal signing as part of the university’s continuing commitment to meet the needs of a diverse campus community. More than 75 washrooms across campus are being posted with new signs to indicate what facilities are located inside—toilets, urinals, change tables, showers, and whether they are wheelchair accessible. The signing project is expected to be finished by the end of October.

Bystander intervention training has been added to the roster of initiatives aimed at preventing sexualized violence. Offered through Student Affairs’ new Office of Student Life, new Bringing in the Bystander workshops help students learn practical skills to defuse potentially unsafe situations from spiraling into sexualized violence or sexual harassment.

As the federal government moves forward with legalization of cannabis, many lessons can be learned from the Canadian experience with legalization of alcohol. As 13 researchers from the University of Victoria’s Centre for Addictions Research of BC (CARBC) point out in their co-authored submission to the Task Force on Marijuana Legalization and Regulation in Canada—published today as a publicly available research bulletin—cannabis, like alcohol, is no ordinary commodity. A delicate balance is needed between the pressures for liberalization and addressing potential public and individual harms.

PhD candidate Kate Newman has been awarded a Fulbright Canada student grant to conduct research on urban politics in New York City.

Washrooms in Victoria, particularly those in shelters and social service agencies, have become de facto drug consumption sites in a city seeing a sharp rise in both homelessness and rates of overdoses, shows a new report, released today by researchers with the UVic's Centre for Addictions Research of BC ahead of International Overdose Awareness Day on Aug. 31.

This June, UVic Distinguished Professor Dr. Susan Boyd was named to the nine-person federal task force on marijuana legalization and regulation.

This summer UVic geographer Phil Dearden assisted an international research team with the placement of the first-ever satellite tracking tag on a tiger shark in the Philippines' Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park—a UNESCO world heritage site—and is now tracking its movements in real time. Sharks play a crucial role in marine biodiversity and the new research will have significant impact on shark conservation in Southeast Asia and the Philippines.

A groundbreaking discovery by UVic paleoanthropologist April Nowell has provided the first direct evidence of exploitation by our Stone Age ancestors of specific animals for subsistence.

"Many folks on campus see us as an order desk and don't realize we're so much more," explains UVic purchasing officer Annabelle Victoria. "They don't have the full picture of our services and what kinds of things we can help them with."

A new study published Aug. 30 in Nature Communications shows for the first time that trees near former First Nations villages on BC’s Central Coast have grown taller, wider and healthier than those in the surrounding forest.

An inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada was announced yesterday, and 3 of the 5 appointed commissioners have close ties to UVic Law.

Children around the world stand to benefit from a new monitoring and reporting platform being developed by UVic to improve Canada’s and other countries’ ability to comply with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Two students who show promise as outstanding scholars and young leaders are this year's recipients of the prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarships as they enter their first year of studies at the University of Victoria.

Unit managers, deans and those with responsibilities for data entry using Enhanced Planning Tools reporting will be able to access their reports for editing from Sept. 1 to Oct. 17.

It's now a little harder to find an excuse for being late to class thanks to the University of Victoria's new mobile app. Students can personalize the app so it will display their course timetable with granular views showing class locations and times.

An international team of scientists co-led by a University of Victoria researcher is one step closer to a vaccine for syphilis. Co-leaders UVic microbiologist Caroline Cameron and University of Washington’s Sheila Lukehart received a $2.3 million grant (USD) from the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. The grant will allow them to continue to make headway on vaccine development.