The United States has enacted 25-per-cent tariffs on Canadian goods, and this week the Canadian government announced a “robust tariff package” in response. The University of Victoria experts are available to media for comment about the tariffs or their impacts.
The University of Victoria experts are available to media for comment about Donald Trump and US politics.
Fourth-year English and art history student Sky Dragushan is blending their study of literature and art history to gain archival research experience that they hope will equip them for a graduate program in library and archival studies.
Hundreds of at-risk, rarely seen, audio visual items that document the history of Trans+ activism will be made digitally accessible with the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that preserves and improves research and learning.
On Nov. 5, Americans will go to the polls to elect the 47th president of the United States. The following University of Victoria experts are available to media to discuss issues relating to the US election or international relations between Canada and the United States.
The following University of Victoria experts are available to media to discuss issues relating to the Oct. 19 BC election.
At the 2024 Orange Shirt Day ceremony, UVic will be raising the Survivors' Flag at a permanent location on campus.
Landmark new research shows Ice Age teens from 25,000 years ago went through similar puberty stages as modern-day adolescents. In a study published today in the Journal of Human Evolution of the timing of puberty in Pleistocene teens, researchers are addressing a knowledge gap about how early humans grew up.
Massive volcanic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions contributing to an extreme global ocean deoxygenation event over 120 million years ago has modern day implications for understanding a climate warming “tipping point,” according to new research published in Nature this week, led by a scientist at Ocean Networks Canada, a UVic initiative.
Taking online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic at 3 a.m. India-time may not have been the ideal first-year experience, but it didn’t deter Aashna Kulshreshtha from enthusiastically pursuing her undergraduate degree in art history at UVic. …
Three distinguished individuals from diverse fields will be awarded honorary degrees by UVic during its spring convocation ceremonies taking place from June 10 to 14. Margaret Lidkea, Eloise Spitzer and Dr. James Carley will receive honorary degrees from UVic on June 11, 12, and 13, respectively.
University of Victoria experts are available to media to discuss National Indigenous History Month (June) and National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21).
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+.
The following UVic community members are available to the media to discuss Black History Month and Black cultures.
Jamey Jesperson, a UVic History PhD candidate and Vanier Scholar, re-stories colonial histories through a trans anti-colonial perspective.
In 60 years of UVic history, six core achievements stand out for shaping the university today, revealing core values we hold—in equity and inclusion, partnerships that serve and build, and in sustainability initiatives that are poised to make a global difference
