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Times Higher Education subject rankings

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Times Higher Education has released its 2020 world university rankings by subject for physical sciences and psychology, placing UVic programs in these areas among the Top 200 around the globe. These are in addition to previously announced Top-300 rankings for UVic in arts and humanities, computer science, and engineering and technology.

Dynamic learning for chemistry students

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Chemistry students at the University of Victoria can now take part in an international program with Denmark-based pharmaceutical company LEO Pharma A/S that will provide them with hands-on learning during their academic course work.

REACH Awards

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On Oct. 10, the third annual REACH Awards will celebrate UVic scholars for their extraordinary contributions in research and teaching.

UVic researchers join prestigous council

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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

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

Ceremony welcomes Indigenous faculty members

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At a ceremony in the First Peoples House Ceremonial Hall, several Indigenous faculty asked permission to work in the traditional territory of the Esquimalt and Songhees peoples.

Explore campus, learn French with new AR game

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Bernadette Perry, a PhD student in French, has spent hundreds of hours honing Explorez, her new French-language video game that helps students reinforce their language skills while exploring the UVic campus.

Rare plant thrives in campus teaching garden

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A cluster of rare pink star-shaped blossoms will soon be blooming in UVic’s David Turpin Native Plant garden— planted earlier this spring by ethnobotanist Fiona Hamersley Chambers and her environmental studies students. The Pink Sand Verbena, a federally red-listed endangered species, was considered extinct in Canada until it was rediscovered in 2000 along a beach on the BC West Coast Trail.

Classroom under water

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UVic’s scientific diving program has given three decades of students the tools, training and hands-on learning they need to safely and successfully conduct research under water.

New teacher fosters inclusive education

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For Dominique Rochefort, a citizen of the Métis Nation, the journey to become an empowered teacher was mined with self-doubts and life challenges. Rochefort graduates with a UVic BEd in elementary teacher education—and will receive a Maxwell Cameron award from the BC Teachers’ Federation for the outstanding quality of her practice teaching, her top GPA and engagement in social justice.

New book focuses on field schools

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New book gathers expertise of UVic field school instructors to learn from—and extend—off-campus teaching opportunities

Cultural re-centring model

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How does one “speak back” to violence experienced by Indigenous girls, young women, two-spirit youth, even whole communities impacted from centuries of oppression? This question frames the work of Sisters Rising, an Indigenous-led, community-based research project that honours Indigenous youth who have experienced sexualized, gender-based violence by offering traditional land- and arts-based teachings.

2019 Provost's Engaged Scholars

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Over the course of their careers, health geographer Denise Cloutier and business professor Brent Mainprize have been deeply engaged with communities—creating better lives for older adults and Indigenous youth across British Columbia. As the 2019 recipients of the Provost’s Engaged Scholar Award, Cloutier and Mainprize’s commitment to healthy aging and Indigenous peoples will be celebrated during Ideafest.

3M teaching award to field school founder

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Helga Thorson, whose groundbreaking field school transforms university students into eyewitnesses of how European countries remember the Holocaust, is the 12th UVic scholar to be recognized with Canada’s most prestigious award for excellence in leadership and teaching.

2019 3M National Teaching Award

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Helga Thorson, whose groundbreaking field school transforms students into eyewitnesses of how European countries remember the Holocaust, is the 12th UVic scholar—and the third in five years—to win Canada's most prestigious award for excellence in teaching, the 3M National Teaching Fellowship.

Whale bones and orca history

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, how do you quantify the experience of holding a whale skull? Students in one history course recently had just that kind of heft added to their learning at the Royal BC Museum, examining the museum’s whale specimens.

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