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University of Victoria microbiologist Caroline Cameron and colleagues have received a patent for a potential vaccine candidate against syphilis.

British Columbia will need much more clean electricity and a wholesale change in commercial trucks operating in the province to meet its 2050 greenhouse gas emissions target while supporting economic growth, say researchers with the University of Victoria-based Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions.

The Gustavson School of Business has balanced its commitments to social responsibility and international education by investing in five carbon offset projects, countering the environmental impact of its air travel and achieving carbon neutrality – believed to be the first business school in the world to do so.

From a cheap and easy way for mining-impacted communities to test their drinking water to a powerful microscope able to observe the tiniest "workhorses" of our cellular system, University of Victoria researchers who received Canada Foundation for Innovation grants in April are working to address some of the world's most daunting problems.

Aspiring Indigenous entrepreneurs in Canada will benefit from a $1 million gift from BMO Financial Group to expand the Aboriginal Canadian Entrepreneurs Program.

An internationally recognized researcher renowned for his leading-edge work in molecular and materials chemistry is joining faculty at the University of Victoria as a Canada 150 research chair.

A collaborative team led by University of Victoria doctoral student and Hakai Scholar Kieran Cox and fish ecologist Francis Juanes has found that anthropogenic noise is changing the ability of fish to forage, reproduce and avoid predation.

In a study that spans the Pacific Coast of Canada, UVic researchers have confirmed that human disturbance of seagrass meadows results in lower fish diversity. Coastal seagrass meadows are important nursery grounds for commercial and ecologically significant fish species.

Three University of Victoria researchers have been awarded a total $935,000 in federal funding to study the impact of underwater noise on critically endangered southern resident killer whales and the Chinook salmon they depend on for almost 80 per cent of their diet.

Separate salt and water, and they long to come back together. That special chemistry could provide an innovative solution to the dilemma of storing and extracting surplus energy generated by intermittent energy sources such as solar, wind and wave power, says the founder of UVic-supported company Pani Energy.

As cases of substance use and mental illness continue to rise across Canada, the City of Victoria is having success with integrating police officers into health care on Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams, according to a new report by UVic psychologists Catherine Costigan and Erica Woodin.

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