On January 23, 2024, a first-year student living in residence, Sidney McIntyre-Starko was exposed to BC’s toxic drug supply. She died in hospital a few days later, devastating our community and leaving us all shaken.
In the fall, 25 First Nations and Metis nurses from across BC will embark officially on their graduate studies at their home institutions as part of the Indigenous Graduate Education in Nursing (I-GEN) program, including eight students at UVic. A partnership between Indigenous communities, UVic, UBC-Okanagan, UBC-Vancouver, Thompson Rivers University and Trinity Western University, the first-of-its-kind master’s program is designed to decolonize and Indigenize nursing where graduate students live and work. The goals include bolstering the retention of Indigenous nurses, improving health outcomes for Indigenous communities and strengthening relational partnerships with First Nations, Métis, and Inuk health leaders to improve Indigenous health nursing education, practice and research.
Summer is here and heat and smoke may be in the forecast soon. The university has a range of strategies and tips to keep everyone safe during hot weather or when our region experiences wildfire smoke.
Award-winning Tłı̨chǫ Dene author Richard Van Camp will return to the University of Victoria as Indigenous Storyteller-in-Residence for 2024/25.
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The University of Victoria is a leader among Canadian universities when it comes to climate impact research and programs, according to new international rankings released on Wednesday.
Recognizing our retirees
Facilities Management and Capital City Paving will be repairing an electrical conduit and applying new asphalt. Gabriola Road will be closed from June 5 – 7, 2024 to complete the work.
University of Victoria experts are available to media to discuss National Indigenous History Month (June) and National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21).
The powerful solar storm driving the aurora borealis over global skies last weekend was also triggering the movement of compasses deep in the ocean, as revealed in new scientific findings shared today by Ocean Networks Canada (ONC), a University of Victoria initiative.
May 5 is Red Dress Day, the national day of awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit people. Each year on this day, we wear red to honour our mothers, daughters, sisters, cousins, aunts, siblings and diversely gendered relatives and acknowledge the families and communities that have been impacted by the on-going crisis of MMIWG2S+.
Climate displacement is underway, and scientists are starting to learn about these realities from those experiencing this first-hand. A delegation of young Inuvialuit leaders from Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, travelled more than 2,300 km to Victoria to meet with government scientists and detail what life is like living with the impacts of climate change and climate displacement on your doorstep.
The university flag will be lowered on Sunday, April 28 to mark the Day of Mourning.
The university flag will be lowered on Apr. 27 in honour of Rebecca Warburton.
The university flag will be lowered on Apr. 24 in honour of Dr. Rod Dobell.
UVic has become one of only 14 post-secondary institutions in the world to reach a STARS Platinum sustainability rating. The ranking celebrates UVic’s holistic approach to sustainability and how it’s integrated in everything we do.
