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University of Victoria researchers have highlighted preliminary findings from the largest and most comprehensive study of the sex industry undertaken in Canada in a brief (PDF) to the Justice and Human Rights Committee, which is poised to begin exam…

Chancellor Murray Farmer will preside over a final set of four ceremonies during UVic's Fall Convocation on Nov. 10 and 12. During his six years as chancellor, he has presided over 79 convocation ceremonies, and congratulated and "tapped" more than …

In late October and early November, we asked you to send us your favourite "fun fact" or interesting statistic about UVic. Unusual things are part of what makes the campus distinctive.

Nearly 850,000 Canadians turn to food banks every month, according to the 2014 HungerCount survey. Here in Victoria, in time for a holiday season of giving, two initiatives on the UVic campus will help fill local food-bank shelves. The annual Food f…

For Kathryn Juricic, a social sciences graduate, getting outside and seeing impacts of local work makes her passionate to continue this after her studies at UVic. Juricic began at UVic with the intention of moving on after her first year; however, after taking some environmental studies courses she didn’t want to leave. “I felt I wouldn’t receive the same calibre of learning and atmosphere anywhere else. I was surrounded by inspirational people who were bound together through learning and action,” explains Juricic.

UVic faculty member and director Fran Gebhard remembers New York City in 1978—the Ramones were rocking CBGB’s club in the Village and the flower-power generation was on its way out, being pushed to the past by a new punk attitude. New York was changing—and it was one amazing summer.

Thousands of UVic students and their families and friends will gather on campus this month to celebrate the achievement of an academic milestone. During Fall Convocation on Nov. 10 and 12, ceremonies will be held to confer degrees, diplomas or certificates upon 1,272 graduating students.

The University of Victoria will celebrate the successful completion of studies for 1,300 graduating students when it holds fall convocation ceremonies on Nov. 10 and 12 at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. each day in the University Centre Farquhar Auditorium. …

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC), an initiative of the University of Victoria, has teamed up with BC Girl Guides to introduce girls and young women from ages 5 to 18 to the wonders of the ocean beneath the surface and to inspire their natural curiosity i…

The University of Victoria will present three honorary degrees for outstanding achievements in public health, journalism and community-based leadership during fall convocation ceremonies.

For recent grad Darcie Scollard (English), the co-operative education program has made her future a lot less daunting—and helped her pocket a contract with the provincial government to carry her into post-grad life. “As a humanities student, I was particularly worried about life after university,” Scollard says. “Since I became a co-op student, a lot of stress around finding a job after graduation has been lifted off my shoulders.”

As an MFA candidate in the Department of Writing, Hannalora Leavitt has spent the past two years fulfilling the same kind of duties and responsibilities as most UVic graduate students: conceiving a thesis, working with a supervisor, giving lectures, teaching classes, marking papers, reading, writing, research. But given her specialty in creative nonfiction, Leavitt is also tasked with interpreting the world as she sees it—no easy job when you’re a blind writer.

Some people are born leaders, and convocating graduate Tiffany Yu undoubtedly falls into that category. Never one to shy away from a challenge, Yu saw a need in the Faculty of Engineering and set out to create change, becoming heavily involved with the Engineering Student Society (ESS). After attending the National Conference on Women in Engineering, Yu was inspired to create a women in engineering group at UVic. With help from faculty members and fellow ESS members Taylor Entz and Alisa Minderova, Leadership Through Diversity was born.

Ross Rich, who graduates this November with a commerce degree from the Gustavson School of Business, has spun himself into his dream job already—as a Marketing Assistant with Columbia Records in New York City. Rich will also maintain the artist-management firm he started in 2013, which includes talented singer Jade Tjorhom (another UVic student) on its artist roster.

You may have heard of care facilities designed specifically for people with dementia; they have features such as circular walkways, colour-coded areas that help people recognize where they are, or simple signs hung at eye level. But what if we started taking the needs of people with dementia into consideration when we designed a new park or a city street? These were questions Maria Przydatek explored as part of her masters thesis on dementia-friendly urban planning.