Two outstanding individuals–an exceptional human rights advocate and a renowned technology entrepreneur–will be recognized with UVic’s highest academic honour at fall convocation ceremonies. A total of 1,460 degrees, diplomas and certificates will be awarded this fall.
UVic Libraries recently launched its latest publication, [untitled]: The Artists’ Archives at the University of Victoria Libraries, exploring the archives of four celebrated local artists in Special Collections and University Archives. The publication is presented as a series of four interrelated booklets—each told through the voice of a writer closely associated with them, and packaged in a limited-edition portfolio.
A new study led by recent PhD graduate Frances Stewart shows how the movements of one small mammal – the weasel-like fisher – through natural forested corridors underlines the importance of these safe pathways and points to implications for many other forest animals across the country.
The ACE for Artists program tailors the award-winning ACE entrepreneurship training program to Indigenous artists, helping them connect their passion to a business plan by developing the tools they need to become financially successful.
The fourth in a series of articles exploring how staff and faculty across campus are implementing UVic’s Strategic Framework.
Canada’s National Dementia Strategy, the long-awaited blueprint for finding a cure and for reshaping policy, was released last week.
Barbara Todd Hager, UVic’s new Indigenous communications officer in the Office of Indigenous Academic and Community Engagement, is the latest recipient of the prestigious annual Indspire Arts Award.
Amazing life of Stewart Butterfield
PhD graduate Samantha MacFarlane defended her Humanities dissertation on the same day that she won a prestigious award for designing a digital exhibit about Johnny Cash. She achieved it all, combining a love of storytelling with an enriching library work experience––in time for her June graduation.
UVic graduate Joseph Erlic and his brothers, Jure and Martin, created HoopLight, a fun new way to play basketball. The hoop lights up with a flash that throws a rainbow of pulsing lights when a basket is scored.
Music technology professor Kirk McNally scrutinizes recordings to better understand the relationship between musicians, engineers and music producers.
The Witness Blanket by Carey Newman, UVic’s sixth Audain Professor of Contemporary Art Practice of the Pacific Northwest with UVic’s Department of Visual Arts, is the centrepiece of a historic agreement which Newman signed April 12 with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. It unites Western legal principles with Indigenous ways of knowing and being. UVic Law plans to incorporate the agreement into its curriculum.
How does one “speak back” to violence experienced by Indigenous girls, young women, two-spirit youth, even whole communities impacted from centuries of oppression? This question frames the work of Sisters Rising, an Indigenous-led, community-based research project that honours Indigenous youth who have experienced sexualized, gender-based violence by offering traditional land- and arts-based teachings.
The Fine Arts Building is now home to a pair of large Indigenous art works, including the 1996 Untitled (Hok-Hok Kwagiulth Cannibal Bird Mask) by John Livingston and Calvin Hunt and the large 1986 Untitled (Kwagiulth Split Killer Whale Mask) by Tony Hunt Sr.
Two alumni, and a technology start-up that drives environmental impacts down.
In an ongoing effort toward reconciliation, Andrea Walsh has been on a decade-long journey to repatriate residential school art work. “The repatriation work began with the Alberni IRS,” says Walsh, “and our collaborative work to build research partnerships has extended across the country to smaller northern institutions in Manitoba and Ontario.”
