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Rob McPherson (physics and astronomy) has been named deputy spokesperson of the ATLAS experiment, a 3,000-strong international scientific collaboration that built and manages one of two particle detectors at the CERN Large Hadron Collider on the French-Swiss border. The new position effectively makes McPherson the vice-president of ATLAS, working with the spokesperson to oversee detector and computing operations and manage relationships with funding agencies. The UVic ATLAS team designed and built several crucial components of the detector, which made scientific history by discovering the elusive Higgs boson particle in 2012.

A dynamic research hub exists in one of the most remote places along BC’s central coast – the Hakai Institute’s Calvert Island field station. Working at times in extreme conditions and off the grid, the scientists study grizzly bears, salmon, archeo…

New CRC excited about combined degree program in Indigenous and Canadian law UVic Law professor Dr. John Borrows secured one of the most prestigious research professorships in the country when he was officially named Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law on Thursday, Oct. 16.

A new consortium to promote Indigenous economic development across Canada was recently announced at UVic. The National Consortium for Indigenous Economic Development (NCIED) has the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business and the UVic Faculty of Law working together on community-based education and research to drive innovative economic change. The consortium was developed with the collaboration of leaders from Indigenous communities, business and government.

“Water is a natural resource essential for life,” says Moussa Traore, an economics student in the Faculty of Social Sciences who receives his BSc from UVic this month. Traore arrived in Montreal seven years ago—leaving his home in Burkina Faso, Africa, a landlocked country that has endured a series of droughts and military coups over the past few decades.

From the very first plans for the Gordon Head campus, natural features have been valued as a defining force in UVic’s learning environment. And the Environmental Studies program, starting small with a single course in 1975, has grown substantially — not just alongside, but as a driver of green initiatives that have helped transform the campus into an internationally recognized leader in sustainability. Many of the practices that helped UVic become the only Canadian university to make the Princeton Review’s 2015 Green Honour Roll sprouted from Environmental Studies course projects, student initiatives and partnerships across the institution.

Two University of Victoria faculty members are available to discuss the current #gamergate hate-group controversy surrounding the video game critic, blogger, and Feminist Frequency founder Anita Sarkeesian. Sarkeesian cancelled an Oct. 14 speech at …

The following University of Victoria expert is available to discuss the Supreme Court of Canada hearing on assisted suicide. Eike-Henner Kluge (Department of Philosophy) is an expert in medical ethics. He was the ethics advisor to North Saanich resi…

In the inaugural Campus Checklist newsletter on Sept. 16, we asked faculty and staff to tell us "what's the one thing every new UVic student ought to know that would best improve their experience or support academic success?" We received lots of great responses, and two winners were randomly selected from the 72 submissions for two $100 prizes, loaded onto ONECards.

If you’re a full-time faculty member and you haven’t yet been filmed for a Faces of UVic Research video, the project team would like to hear from you. In each video—which is just over one minute long—a researcher gives a short and succinct summary of their work in everyday language that quickly gets to the heart of what they do and why it matters.

Annual Southam lecture looks at comedy and censorship If you think there’s nothing funny about censorship, Mark Leiren-Young would like to change your mind. A prolific freelance journalist, screenwriter, playwright, memoirist and award-winning author, Leiren-Young is this year’s Harvey Stevenson Southam Lecturer in Journalism and Nonfiction for the Department of Writing. And while his current Writing course Finding the Funny focuses on humour writing, his upcoming public lecture will examine the fine line between comedy and censorship. “I’m fascinated by the question of, ‘Where’s the line?’,” says Leiren-Young. “What can you make fun of? What can't you make fun of? What's taboo? How soon is too soon?” By way of example, Leiren-Young looks east to Toronto’s frequently lampooned mayor. “Rob Ford and his tumor—too soon for jokes?”

Did you have a near miss during your morning cycling commute? Then map it on bikemaps.org and your incident will be part of a new University of Victoria project aimed at improving cycling safety. UVic geography professor Dr. Trisalyn Nelson and a te…

A new national consortium to support and strengthen Indigenous economic development across Canada was announced today at the University of Victoria.

A decade ago he was recording the likes of A-list rockers R.E.M., Bryan Adams and the Foo Fighters, but these days you’ll more likely find Kirk McNally tweaking the levels in the MacLaurin Building’s recording studio. But as the Audio Specialist and Recording Engineer for the School of Music since 2004, the best part of McNally’s job is that he doesn’t really have a typical day.

It’s a history mystery worthy of its own exhibition. When Dr. Marcus Milwright, of UVic's recently renamed Art History and Visual Studies department, began planning his upcoming exhibit The Arts of World War I, he knew there was one item in the university library that he just had to use: a beautiful two-volume leather diary set illustrated with watercolours and pen-and-ink drawings of life during wartime. There’s only one problem: he has no idea to whom it actually belonged.

It certainly sounds novel: could a smelling test, easy enough to administer to young children, help diagnose Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)? That possibility is taking shape, thanks to work done by UVic neuroscience PhD student Christine Fontaine.