In all honesty, I have never been one to really feel the need to belong to groups. I prefer to do my own thing and sample what I want, when I want to. I have, though, recently begun to see that being part of a community can enrich my own day to day …
Any parent with a computer in the house knows the warnings—keep the device in a central place, like a kitchen, so children can surf the internet under the supervision of an adult.
Nominations are now open for the Alumni Awards for Excellence in Teaching, celebrating teaching of the highest calibre at UVic. Award categories include faculty members, artists-in-residence and librarians, and separately, sessional lecturers, lab i…
UVic is updating the 2003 Campus Plan to provide a refreshed vision and direction for future campus development. Watch for the mobile info booths around campus from Jan. 13–16. Hear how and why campus planning is done at the Speakers Event on Jan. 28 from 4:30–6 p.m. in the Bob Wright Centre. And share your thoughts at the Ideas Forum on Feb. 4 from 11 a.m.–8 p.m.
New Year's resolutions to exercise more are as predictable as post-holiday leftovers, bloated credit card statements and pine needles embedded in the carpet. But while the joint goal of getting fit and losing weight is generally the most popular of resolutions, it is also the one most commonly broken.
At the end of 2014, Murray Farmer concluded his term as UVic Chancellor, and was succeeded in the post by Shelagh Rogers. At the end of December, Farmer had served an amazing 150 months on the UVic Board of Governors, making him one of the longest-serving elected or appointed board members.
University Communications and Marketing thanks all 1,073 faculty and staff who competed December’s campus communications survey. With nearly 25 per cent of campus responding, the strong pool of survey results—and the careful and considered feedback …
Since September, 67 job competitions have been completed using UVic Careers, the university's new online job management system, with almost 50 more in process as of late December. Job seekers are able to apply for jobs, save resum&e#180;s and track …
When UVic engineering professor Dr. Reuven Gordon describes the biomedical engineering technique of listening to and recording the “voice” of proteins, it sounds a lot like a modern take on Horton Hears a Who, Dr. Seuss’s children’s story of an elephant who hears a voice calling from a microscopic dust speck. “Everything small has resonances. Everything has a voice,” Gordon says of the protein molecules measuring a single nanometer in size—the building blocks of life that are a million times smaller than an ant and emit sound at a frequency a million times higher than the human ear can hear.
The following University of Victoria faculty members are available to discuss the breaking news today on the thawing of relations between the US and Cuba: Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (Dept. of Anthropology) is an expert in the cultural policies …
The University of Victoria welcomes Dr. Christian Vandendorpe to campus this month as the university’s first Honorary Resident Wikipedian. A widely respected scholar, former magazine editor and author of From Papyrus to Hypertext, Vandendorpe’s hono…
Schoolchildren learn in the classroom about the importance of water and water cycles in daily life. Now, thanks to landscape architect and University of Victoria environmental studies master’s student Catherine Orr, this learning experience moves ou…
Since ‘go-live’ in September, 67 job competitions have been completed using UVic Careers, the university’s new online job management system, with almost 50 more in process as of late December.
As UVic welcomes the start of another great year, we also celebrate the many memorable moments and compelling stories of 2014.
If getting to the top of your favourite ski hill involves a tow rope this season, you might thank an engineer for the lift—and give a thought to how the profession works to ensure that a safe, smooth ride can be enjoyed by all.
If UVic Chancellor Murray Farmer has a recurring dream, it must surely include the words “Admitto Te,” or “I admit you.” After all, he has spoken those words more than 17,000 times in the past six years, presiding over 79 convocation ceremonies. Each time, the words were accompanied by a warm smile and a gentle tap on the head of the student with his cap, as he congratulated them on his or her accomplishments. Farmer’s term as Chancellor wraps up on Dec. 31, after six memorable years as the titular head of the university. His connection with UVic, however, goes back much further—back, in fact, to the earliest days of the university.
