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A means to measure

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How much does alcohol cost? Think beyond the price of a bottle of wine; how many deaths per year are due to alcohol-related colon cancer? How about hospitalizations due to impaired driving accidents? To calculate these costs, PhD student Adam Sherk developed the International Model of Alcohol Harms and Policies, or InterMAHP.

Grad's math models help map disease transmission

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Chadi Saad-Roy was a high school math whiz with no idea when he first enrolled at UVic in 2012 that he would one day be trying to unravel how a cow with cattle fever spreads the disease to the rest of the herd. What a difference five years makes.

CanAssist funding will help society’s most vulnerable

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Seniors with dementia and children with special needs will benefit from the latest provincial funding to CanAssist, a University of Victoria program dedicated to helping people with disabilities improve their quality of life, with a focus on promoting independence and inclusion.

UVic's participation in Canada's 150th

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Canada will mark the 150th anniversary of the country's 1867 Confederation on July 1. As part of the sesquicentennial, UVic is holding a series of five signature events throughout 2017 under the theme "The Edge of what's next" to explore key opportunities and challenges facing Canadians over the next 50 years.

CARBC brings together opioid substitution patients to help others

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To help navigate this stigma dn multiple barriers to access information about opioid substitution treatment (OST) in BC, UVic’s Centre for Addictions Research produced a users’ guide to the world of prescription opioids (such as methadone and suboxone), treatment and recovery. The handbook was co-written by OST patients, supported by funding from the Province of BC.

UVic researchers help discover new dwarf planet

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Two University of Victoria-based researchers are part of an international team of astronomers who have discovered a new dwarf planet orbiting in the disk of small icy worlds beyond Neptune.

UVic astronomers help discover new dwarf planet

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An international team of astronomers including UVic researchers have discovered a new dwarf planet orbiting in the disk of small icy worlds beyond Neptune.

Building a tree-planting robot

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Many students spend their summers tromping through slash-piles and battling blackflies to replant Canada’s forests. Two UVic engineering undergrads took a different approach: they designed and built a tree-planting robot with the idea of supplementing the humans’ hard work. “TreeRover” is the brainchild of third-year electrical engineering students Nick Birch and Tyler Rhodes. Through an entrepreneurial co-op work term, they formed their own company—Iota Enterprises—to build their robot prototype in Rhodes’ Saanich backyard.

CanAssist technologies

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Thousands of British Columbians living with dementia and other challenging conditions will benefit from innovative new technologies being developed by CanAssist at the University of Victoria.

Without global policy, BC LNG won't help climate

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British Columbia’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) strategy won’t help the problem of global climate change in the absence of stronger policies internationally that limit carbon pollution, new research suggests.

Help Desk expansion

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The Computer Help Desk has expanded its operations to provide more knowledgeable staff, extended hours and twice the number of locations. Faculty, staff and students can now contact the Help Desk by telephone and email from 8 a.m.-11 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. weekends, and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on stat holidays; and visit any one of eight physical locations.

Two scholars in new RSC college

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Two University of Victoria researchers—a psychologist who studies how we age mentally and a computer scientist who explores new ways to sort through large amounts of information—are charter members of a new national “college” for outstanding young scholars.

Standard drink labels on alcohol reduce risk

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A new study by UVic's Centre for Addictions Research of BC shows that a simple, internationally tested method of “standard drink” labelling is an essential tool for those who wish to stay within drinking guidelines.

Two UVic scholars help debut new national college

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Two UVic researchers—a psychologist and a computer scientist—are charter members of a new national “college” for outstanding young scholars.

Can BC forests help keep climate change in check?

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A major new study announced today will help ensure one of British Columbia’s (BC’s) most important sectors–forestry–can endure under a changing climate, and even help slow down the rate of global warming.

Dark mysteries of galaxies

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We all joke about black holes in our everyday lives when something disappears. And we know from watching Star Trek and sci-fi movies that black holes are massive cosmic phenomena not to be messed with. But what are they really? And what role do they play in the evolution of galaxies?

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