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Researchers

Cross-linking technology tightly binds

Media release

UVic professor of organic chemistry Jeremy Wulff’s research team led the design of the new class of cross-linking materials in research that appears in the journal Science. Together, UVic and UBC Okanagan researchers discovered a broadly applicable method of bonding plastics and synthetic fibres at the molecular level.

UVic researchers join prestigous council

Media release

Four University of Victoria researchers in the fields of social sciences and humanities are recognized with Canada's highest academic honour.

Royal Society of Canada elects UVic researchers

The Ring

Four University of Victoria researchers in the fields of social sciences and humanities have been elected to the Royal Society of Canada.

Nautical maps from century ago help BC researchers chart kelp

National Post

Nautical maps from century ago help BC researchers chart kelp

2 at UVic get research chairs

Media release

Two prominent medical researchers at the University of Victoria have been named Canada Research Chairs.

A means to measure

The Ring

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.

New funding for health researchers

The Ring

Addressing gaps in Indigenous health data and assessing susceptibility to bacterial infections are the goals of two UVic projects recently awarded funding by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Consortium trains community-based researchers

The Ring

UVic and UNESCO are working together to create and deliver community-based research training to tackle local and global health and education needs. The initiative is being led by Budd Hall, professor of community development in UVic's School of Public Administration, and Rajesh Tandon, founding president of Participatory Research in Asia.

Partnership between astronomy and tech sector

The Ring

Lung cancer scans and astronomy may not seem like they've got much in common. But a new research and training program at UVic is demonstrating that you just never know where astronomy studies may lead.

NSERC funding

Media release

Cutting-edge research got a big boost Sept. 8 with Federal Science Minister Kirsty Duncan announcing $9.5M in NSERC grants to UVic. The funding announced at UVic and other universities is Canada's single largest investment in fundamental research.

2016 highly cited researchers

The Ring

It’s always gratifying to have data-driven, third party recognition of UVic's global research impact. Thomson Reuters' 2016 list of the world’s most highly cited researchers includes climate statistician Francis Zwiers, of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, as well as two previously recognized researchers: mechanical engineer Yang Shi and business professor Roy Suddaby.

UVic researchers help discover new dwarf planet

The Ring

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.

Partnering on immunotherapy

The Ring

Two University of Victoria biochemists are entering into a collaboration that could take immunotherapy—the latest and most promising form of cancer treatment—to the next level. UVic’s Martin Boulanger and Brad Nelson, a researcher with UVic and the BC Cancer Agency, are partnering with Vancouver-based biotech company Zymeworks Inc. on a cell engineering strategy that will make immunotherapy more potent and precise.

Future-proofing BC against climate change

Media release

Five issues of critical importance to British Columbia—transportation, electrical grid integration, energy efficient buildings, forestry, and natural gas development—form the basis for five major projects from PICS to be underway May 1.

Highly cited UVic researchers

The Ring

Four UVic faculty members—Ned Djilali and Yang Shi (engineering), Andrew Weaver (science, on political leave) and Pauline van den Driessche (mathematics)—have been recognized in the 2014 list of Highly Cited Researchers compiled by Thomson Reuters. …

Dark mysteries of galaxies

The Ring

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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