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UVic civil engineering professor Ralph Evins is using machine learning to design energy-efficient buildings that don’t yet exist.

UVic is making important changes to how it conducts field trips to the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre following a review of a fatal bus accident last September in which two students died and numerous other students were injured. The university committed to learning from the tragedy.

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UVic President Jamie Cassels made a presentation before the BC Government Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services meeting on June 19.

UVic is making important changes to how it conducts field trips to the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre (BMSC) following a review of a fatal bus accident last September in which two students, John Geerdes of Iowa City, Iowa, and Emma Machado of Winnipeg, Manitoba, both 18, died.

The Conducting Field Schools to the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre (BMSC) report makes 43 recommendations of varying complexity. The university accepts all of the recommendations and will be implementing them for future field trips to the BMSC and for the university’s response to large critical incidents.

During the rapid shift away from face-to-face course delivery in March, Janni Aragon knew she wanted to get a jump on circumstance. So she took immediate steps to ensure her students would have the same kind of dynamic, community-oriented learning experience they have come to expect from UVic, using a mesh of technologies she also studies. That effort put Aragon, and students in her course in young adult literature, politics and culture, more than a small step ahead. Her course doesn’t begin until July.

How much do you know about Craigdarroch Castle, Ross Bay Cemetery and Christ Church Cathedral? Michael Reed has been using these local landmarks to explore medieval architecture in Victoria—with a virtual twist.

Close to 2,000 students received the COVID-19 Support Bursary between March and June, 2020. The university initially committed $200,000 to meet the immediate challenges students were facing as a result of the pandemic, from lost jobs, to technology issues, to urgent housing needs. Within weeks, hundreds of alumni, community members, staff and faculty contributed to the bursary to help the university meet the overwhelming demand for support.

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Ry Moran, an Indigenous leader who guided the creation of a national archive that includes thousands of stories from residential school survivors, is appointed as the inaugural associate university librarian – reconciliation at UVic. It is the first position of its kind at a Canadian university.

The University of Victoria has recently procured Brightspace by D2L as its new Learning Management System (LMS), to replace CourseSpaces (Moodle) for the fall 2020 term.

As part of the university’s ongoing commitment to increase privacy, records management and information security awareness, all staff with access to personal information through systems such as Banner and FAST are expected to complete self-paced online training on an annual basis.

In accordance with BC’s careful, step-by-step approach to increasing social and economic activity during the COVID-19 pandemic, the university is moving into the next phase of resuming on-campus activities.

As COVID-19 turned the world upside-down, urban geographer Cam Owens had the immense task of shifting his International field school into an online course. The fourth-year geography course, Sustainable Cities, has been a surprising success considering how rapidly Owens had to adapt the field school to an online environment.