The University of Victoria Board of Governors has approved a $347.3-million balanced operating budget for 2016/17 that focuses priorities by maintaining and enhancing academic quality and building strength in recruiting and retaining the best students faculty and staff as a leading research-intensive university.
From April 27 to 29, the University of Victoria (UVic) and community partners will host CUVIC 2016: Reconciliation, Innovation and Transformation through Engagement. The conference will showcase how UVic and the broader community are responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada's Calls to Action on the following five topics: child welfare, education, health, justice, and language and culture.
Few members of the UVic community, past or present, could claim the level of dedication to—and impact on—the university as Bob McQueen, who passed away March 18 at the age of 81. McQueen arrived before we were UVic, joining Victoria College as its chief accountant on March 1, 1962, then becoming the newly-minted University of Victoria’s first Bursar in 1963. In the early 1980s, he was appointed UVic’s vice-president of finance and chief financial officer (CFO), where he remained until his retirement at the end of 1992—after over 30 years at UVic’s financial helm.
The celebration of this year's President's Distinguished Service Award recipients, hosted by President Jamie Cassels, took place on March 31 at the University Club. Before the recipients were named, Valerie Kuehne, UVic's vice-president academic and provost, recognized and congratulated all those who had been nominated.
The Masterminds free public lecture series returns to UVic on Wednesday evenings in April.
When the new international chemistry journal ACS Omega launches this summer, a longtime University of Victoria chemist will be steering its direction.
A paper published today in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs provides evidence that research has over-estimated possible health benefits of alcohol and under-estimated its health risks.
A mission to deepen our knowledge of rare and threatened baleen whales and help protect them from ship strikes is underway off Flores Island in Clayoquot Sound, led by David Duffus, director of UVic’s Whale Research Lab.
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UVic’s global leadership in five key academic fields, along with its comprehensive span of world-class programs across the university, were highlighted with the release of the 2016 QS World University Rankings by Subject on March 22.
Dr. Jessica Ball (child and youth care) and Dr. John Lutz (history) have been named the 2016 recipients of the Provost’s Engaged Scholar Award. This is the third year for the annual awards program, which celebrates the integration of outstanding scholarship, inspired teaching and real-life community engagement. It recognizes tenured faculty members who have achieved great distinction as community-engaged scholars.
It’s long been known that animals living without fear of predation will thrive and reproduce faster. Think rabbits and deer. What hadn’t been demonstrated is that fear of large carnivores—or lack of it—has ripple effects on the whole web of life.
UVic mechanical engineering student Devesh Bharadwaj is participating in a nation-wide NSERC competition, Science, Action! The video contest challenges post-secondary students to film the people, research and innovations that are transforming the way Canadians live and work, and showcases how science and engineering contributes to our understanding of the world and universe around us.
Otfried Spreen, UVic professor emeritus of psychology (neuropsychology), died in Vancouver on Nov. 29, 2015, at the age of 89 years. Spreen played a leading role in establishing the graduate training program in neuropsychology and in running the Psy…
Research published in the journal Science by a team led by Dr. Chris Darimont, the Hakai-Raincoast professor of geography at UVic, reveals new insight behind widespread wildlife extinctions, shrinking fish sizes and disruptions to global food chains.
A team of researchers based at the University of Victoria are poised to revolutionize medical diagnostics with new, far less invasive methods that can be applied to a variety of diseases and wellness monitoring.
