Three members of the UVic community are recognized as campus leaders in the second annual Provost’s Advocacy and Activism awards, acknowledging individuals who address systemic or institutionalized barriers, as champions for others. Recipients include Karen Lithgow, Hannah Charnock and Bruce Wallace.
Marine biologist Julia Baum, an international rising star in marine conservation ecology and an outspoken advocate for science-based decisions on global issues such as climate change and overfishing is UVic’s newest Steacie Fellow. The award includes a research grant of $250,000 over two years.
This May, the second annual REACH Awards will celebrate UVic scientists, scholars and artists for their extraordinary contributions in research and teaching—from a field school in Cuba to a performance atop a glacier in BC's interior.
The President's Extraordinary Service Awards celebrate the outstanding contributions of our people. This year, 15 nominations—representing 38 people (10 individuals and five teams)—were received from across campus in the five award categories.
The university lost one of its unsung heroes in January 2017—long-serving member of janitorial services, Greig Cosier. His death is acutely felt by students and staff in the areas he worked.
Fourth year women's soccer captain and two-time Provost Award winner Emily Lieuwen took home top honours at the April 4 Celebration of Champions and UVic Sports Hall of Fame event after she was named the President's Cup winner.
UVic music professor and researcher Dániel Péter Biró is featured in the new Universities Canada publication "Canadian Excellence, Global Recognition: Canada's 2017 Winners of Major International Research Awards."
Elaine Humphrey, lab manager for UVic's Advanced Microscopy Facility since 2009, has been named a Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America (Class of 2018) for her "significant contributions to the advancement of the field of microscopy and microanalysis."
Technology innovator Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and CEO of Slack, is the Gustsavson School of Business 2018 Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year (DEYA).
University of Victoria alumnus Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and CEO of Slack, is the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business 2018 Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year. In Butterfield’s two decades working on the web, he has established himself as a top designer, entrepreneur, and technologist.
Phuong Duong is confident that studying at UVic will make a vital impact on her future. The 17 year old, recently arrived from Vietnam, is the first student to receive the UVic Pathways Entrance Scholarship from UVic's English Language Centre.
Ryan Beaton is not your typical law student. He likes to stir things up and ask the big questions no one else wants to ask, like "Why are we doing it this way?" and "Is this really working?" His approach can make him unpopular in a room full of lawyers, but right at home in academia.
A UVic researcher studying the epidemic of HIV and sexually transmitted infection in B.C. among men who have sex with men is one of 20 health researchers in the province selected by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research for a 2017 Scholar Award.
An impassioned community volunteer who knows what it's like to live on the streets, and a legal scholar who wants to change how the legal system deals with Aboriginal land claims are two UVic students receiving three-year doctoral scholarships, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation announced today.
Internationally recognized composer and UVic music professor Dániel Péter Biró can now add one of North America's most prestigious awards to his list of honours—the Guggenheim Fellowship. He'll be using the one-year award worth $50,000 US to reflect on one of the most important issues of today: global migration.
Two UVic professors whose efforts to infuse their teaching and research with lessons from the Holocaust are among 10 faculty members and three graduate students receiving top awards at the university’s inaugural REACH Awards.
