When UVic student Simone Blais was invited to attend a 2016 summit in Toronto for Indigenous and racialized students at the start of the Black Lives Matter movement, she jumped at the opportunity. It was a profound experience, one that compelled her to question the usefulness of post-secondary education. But Blaise has since used her experiences outside of the classroom to build on her studies.
Rory Hills’ childhood fascination with science was born out of pure curiosity about the natural environment. He didn’t associate science with any significant world problems. That all changed when UVic researcher Andrew Weaver delivered a talk at Hills’ high school about the future impact of climate change.
The John and Myrtle Tilley Graduate Scholarship helps one of UVic’s first civil engineering PhD students research water accessibility issues in Malawi.
After a serious motorcycle accident that left him temporarily paralysed, Keenan Andrew left his career as a stone mason behind and returned to his long-held passion to work with children and youth. He began his post-secondary education at 29 years old.
Donor funding expands a lab’s research, and teaching and outreach programs in community-driven applied conservation science.
Close to 2,000 students received the COVID-19 Support Bursary between March and June, 2020. The university initially committed $200,000 to meet the immediate challenges students were facing as a result of the pandemic, from lost jobs, to technology issues, to urgent housing needs. Within weeks, hundreds of alumni, community members, staff and faculty contributed to the bursary to help the university meet the overwhelming demand for support.
The seismic upgrades underway at the MacLaurin Building D-Wing are also transforming the building’s interior.
Thanks to generous donations from individuals and well-attended campus events, the fundraising tally for the 2019 UVic United Way campaign as of Feb. 28 was more than $211,000.
UVic establishes an Iranian Student Memorial Scholarship to honour those whose lives were lost On January 8, 2020, Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 was shot out of the sky by an Iranian missile minutes after leaving Tehran. Of the 176 peopl…
A Q&A with Dr. Irehobhude (Ireh) Iyioha, a new faculty member at UVic Law whose research interests include health law.
Philanthropy is quite literally the love of humanity, and here at UVic we embrace this as part of our culture, encouraging faculty and students to give back to the community, local and beyond.
The late Roger J. Bishop, the first head of the University of Victoria’s Department of English who was also known as the "father of UVic Special Collections," has left a lasting legacy as both an educator and philanthropist.
The legacy of the late Roger J. Bishop, a founding member of UVic’s Department of English who supported the establishment of the theatre department and played a major role in building the university’s rare book holdings, continues through a generous estate donation.
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Four students from Africa are completing PhDs at UVic with the help of donors and UVic’s Faculty of Education. Godwin Nnko, Kassim Dadi, William Pastory and Patrick Makokoro are receiving support from the Millennium Futures Fund and the Dr. Jean Downie Dey Memorial Award.
Mechanical engineer Zuomin Dong and UVic’s Clean Transportation Research Team are working to cut down on the environmental impacts of marine vessels in our oceans.
