Each year, we bestow three Co-op Student of the Year awards to recognize students' outstanding achievements in all aspects of performance, including academic achievement, workplace performance, and extracurricular, community and co-op involvement. One winning student is selected from each of our three major program areas.
The following University of Victoria faculty member is available to comment on C-279—the bill to amend the Canadian Human Rights Code and the Criminal Code to strengthen hate crimes protection based on gender identity—after it comes before the Senat…
The Métis invention of the Red River cart that brought the first wheeled transportation to the Canadian Prairies is the centerpiece of an educational resource developed by the University of Victoria to provide young Métis children with culturally re…
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The 11th annual Victoria Leadership Awards took place Feb. 19 in Victoria. Bill Anderson and Bruce Parisian received the two UVic awards.
The 2015 VLAs will be awarded Feb. 19 at the Leadership Victoria gala. A valued friend of UVic—master carver, Songhees First Nation artist and educator Clarence “Butch” Dick—is this year's Lifetime Achievement award recipient.&
Since 2004, the annual Victoria Leadership Awards have recognized local community heroes who diligently tackle some of the most challenging social, cultural and economic issues of our time.
The University of Victoria has appointed Peter Kuran to lead the restructured management of its non-academic real estate properties, including the Vancouver Island Technology Park and Swans Hotel and Brew Pub.
Teaching professor Jin-Sun Yoon in the University of Victoria’s School of Child and Youth Care has been recognized for her exceptional teaching and educational leadership with the 2015 3M National Teaching Fellowship.
The following University of Victoria experts are available to discuss the provincial government’s 2015 budget announcement tomorrow: Elisabeth Gugl (Dept. of Economics) is an economist who teaches in the areas of labour economics, public finance and…
As carbon dioxide levels in the earth’s atmosphere continue to rise as a result of our burning fossil fuels, the water in our oceans is becoming more acidic. The results can be devastating for BC’s farmed shellfish, which rely on a certain chemical …
Do you have a painting signed G.T. Brown or initialed G.T.B.? Well over a century ago, in the 1880s, Grafton Tyler Brown was acclaimed as the first professional artist in BC and is famous as the first Black artist in the Pacific Northwest. A Univers…
A collaboration between students from the Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria and Our Place Society recommends changes to help enhance and improve food service operations. The organization serves 1,200 to 1,500 meals a day. “O…
Ahead of Valentine’s Day, many couples are busy buying the right gift and booking reservations for romantic dinners. And PhD student Lisa Hoplock is delving into the psychology behind successful and failed marriage proposals.
In the next few months, the Vikes will slam-dunk for the last time in McKinnon gym, Thunder will wave a fuzzy goodbye to its once-sky-blue walls, gymnasts and martial artists will take in the last of the distinctive 1975 scent of the apparatus gym and most other athletics and recreation activities will relocate to their new digs in CARSA—the Centre for Athletics, Recreation and Special Abilities. When they do, the 40-year-old McKinnon building will be getting a new lease on life.
CARSA opens in May to replace UVic’s aging and heavily used recreational facilities, but students, faculty, staff and community members don’t have to wait until then to purchase memberships to access the centre’s state-of-the-art workout facilities and climbing wall.
