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UVic is a founding partner of the annual Victoria Leadership Awards program. Here are this year’s recipients.

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The University of Victoria has an agreement for the conditional sale of Dunsmuir Lodge and 25 acres of surrounding woodland to Homewood Health of Guelph, ON.

The following University of Victoria expert is available to media to discuss Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister John McCallum’s announcement regarding proposed amendments to the Citizenship Act. Donald Galloway (Law) specializes in immig…

The following University of Victoria experts are available to media this week to comment on impacts of the special committee report on medically assisted dying tabled today in Parliament and how it might inform draft federal legislation and decision…

Who or what is Batman? How did he come to be? Why does the Batman legend endure? And what can Batman tell us about how our bodies work and the potential of our own physical abilities? Find out the answers to these and many other questions about this…

The University of Victoria has been named one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, for the fifth year in a row. The winners of the 2016 competition were announced Feb. 24, recognizing 65 organizations across the country for a range of exceptional initiatives to attract and retain employees from diverse communities.

The following University of Victoria expert is available to media to discuss the recent Federal Court decision to strike down federal regulations preventing medical marijuana patients from growing their own cannabis. Lynne Belle-Isle (Centre for Add…

Victoria city council has selected Environmental Law Centre legal director Calvin Sandborn (law) and Bernie Pauly (nursing, psychology) as two of the city's 14 honourary citizens for 2011. The award was presented on Jan.19 by Mayor Dean Fortin, in recognition of Sandborn's contributions to environmental protection and sustainability education on Vancouver Island and Pauly's community work on social issues, including homelessness.

An experiment involving raccoons and speakers emitting the sound of barking dogs on tracts of beaches on British Columbia’s Gulf Islands shows that the fear of large carnivores has a positive impact on ecosystem health. The study led by University o…

How can salmon populations and industrial development coexist in a sustainable way? How do we involve citizens to collect meaningful ocean data? And how can we make northern marine transportation safer by better predicting sea ice conditions includi…

The newly released Let’s Face It 2.0, a scrapbook app developed by the University of Victoria’s Centre for Autism Research Technology Education (CARTE) and now available free on iTunes, is a powerful educational tool for learning faces and recognizing emotions of the important people in the lives of children on the autism spectrum. “It is a selfie culture and I hope our app will be adopted by anyone who finds it useful,” says CARTE director and UVic psychology professor Jim Tanaka. “Parents and educators can create their own storybook from people and objects in their children’s lives.”

MBA students repeat first-place performance in international sustainability business competition Competing in the Corporate Knights’ “Business for a Better World Case Competition” is not for the faint of heart. Teams are pitted against fellow MBA students from universities across the globe for the opportunity to present their green business plan to a panel of elite judges in Davos, Switzerland during the World Economic Forum. No pressure, right?

Who is steering fossil fuel extraction in Western Canada and what influence do they wield?   These central questions are driving a six-year research and public engagement initiative, Mapping the Power of the Carbon-Extractive Corporate Resource Sector, with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The project brings together researchers, civil society organizations and Indigenous participants to study the oil, gas and coal industries in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. 

When UVic’s civil engineering program first launched in 2013, nested in mechanical engineering, its intent was to grow into the go-to program in Canada for green civil engineering. Under the direction of new chair, industrial ecologist Chris Kennedy, the fledgling department is taking a big step forward.

UVic’s 11th 3M National Teaching Fellowship recipient drives tomorrow’s teachers to rethink curriculum and the student experience.  David Blades believes education is a political act and teachers need to be up front about that. “You’re always educating for something, toward something,” says the professor of science education and curriculum theory.