Award
12 to receive Distinguished Alumni Awards
Media release
Jen Wise recognized for playwriting
The Ring
Tunnicliffe honored by aquarium
The Ring
2014 VLA Lifetime Achievement Award
Media release
VLA 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award
Media release
Outstanding members of the University of Victoria alumni community—selected by each of the university’s faculties, divisions and the UVic libraries—will be honoured on Wed., Feb.
5.
In January, theatre historian Dr. Jennifer Wise’s play The Girl Rabbi of the Golden West was announced the winner of the 2013 Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition by the Miles
Nadal Centre in Toronto. Her play depicts the amazing true story of how, in 1895, in Victoria, Miss Ray Frank became the first woman to serve as rabbi for an orthodox synagogue throughout the
High Holidays.
This month, Dr. Verena Tunnicliffe (earth and ocean sciences) will receive the 2014 Murray A. Newman Award for Significant Achievement in Aquatic Research and Conservation from the
Vancouver Aquarium. The award goes to leading researchers and conservationists who have made invaluable contributions to understanding and conserving ecosystems in western North
America.
UVic is a founding partner of the annual Victoria Leadership Awards, now celebrating its 10th anniversary. The first award for local community heroes was announced Jan. 29 - to
Mickey and Donna Hajash – and they will be lauded at the Feb. 26 gala
Each year, local community leaders are lauded at the annual Victoria Leadership Awards. UVic is a founding partner of the VLA awards program which celebrates the inspirational
talents of our city's most tireless champions. In advance, Leadership Victo