A personal reflection by a co-op student who worked on the 2020-21 UVic United Way campaign.

This year over 4,000 people participated in Giving Tuesday by donating, buying coffee, playing Campus Quest online, sending Giving Grams or through social media.

An inspiring gift of $1.875M from political activist Wayne Crookes will help address climate change by supporting the new Wayne Crookes Professorship in Environmental and Climate Journalism.

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UVic faculty, staff, and students are helping to transform the lives of marginalized communities in Africa and Asia with the World Partnership Walk, this year a virtual voyage around the world.

Michelle Mahovlich started the 30 by 30 Women in Engineering Award at UVic as a way to honour the promising futures and bright minds lost in the Montreal Massacre.

The family of a carpenter from Cyprus whose dreams brought him to Victoria where he built Kasapi Construction has made a $1M gift to UVic to fund two new scholarships.

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The 13th Annual Vikes Championship Breakfast virtual event raised more than $525,000 for student-athlete scholarships. The 13-year event series have now cleared the $6.1 million mark since 2008.

Over the course of her life, mathematician Betty Kennedy contributed to the University of Victoria and the community in so many ways that to a non-mathematician they may seem countless. It is fitting with so much of the generosity that characterized her life that in her passing in 2019, Kennedy bestowed UVic with a $3.6-million gift.

Two Vancouver Island high school graduates will start classes at UVic this fall as recipients of the prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarship, awarded to outstanding students in STEM.

The National Centre for Indigenous Laws was made a reality at UVic with $13 million from the BC government, $9.1 million from the federal government and $5 million from the Law Foundation of BC.

A donor award supports doctoral student Leigh Joseph—ethnobotanist and small business owner—as she examines the potential for traditional foods and medicines to prevent and manage Type 2 diabetes.

The UVic Research Accelerator Fund empowers world-class researchers to respond to the urgent needs of communities by rapidly advancing COVID-19 resilience and recovery efforts, and overcome future challenges through research expertise, partnerships and infrastructure.

During her five years at UVic, Hannah Eilertsen strove to be the best student possible. Her focus, smarts and determination paid off this month when she was awarded the Jubilee Medal for holding the highest academic standing in the Faculty of Social Sciences. She graduates with a BSc in psychology.

A year living in a Francophone village in Quebec instilled a life-long love of French language and culture in University of Victoria graduate Pamela Fraser. Fraser, who graduates in July with a master’s degree in French, credits her parents, especially her dad, for passing along an enthusiasm for French culture and language.