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3M National Teaching Fellowship

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Innovative, inclusive teaching is the most fundamental element in newest 3M National Teaching Fellow’s courses

Keeping the human connection in health care

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2022 Bachelor of Science in Nursing grad Tory Cundiff reflects on how she chose this career path and her experience coming into her profession during the pandemic.

Performing the dance of leadership

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Classically trained dancer turns her attention to mastering the art of leadership on and off-campus, earning her a 3M Canada national student fellowship.

Breakthrough in dementia

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Early detection of cognitive decline and dementia is a passionate occupation for Yoneda, and a primary focus in her PhD work at UVic.

Leadership award for connecting communities

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A UVic anthropologist who has dedicated much of his career to supporting Indigenous Peoples’ land rights is the latest recipient of the Leadership Victoria Award for Extending Reconciliation.

Bridging knowledges for land and water stewardship

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What happens when Indigenous People lead resource decision-making on their own terms, across their own traditional territories? Communities in Tanzania and Canada are documenting and sharing their experiences, supported by a University of Victoria Department of Geography project that illustrates how partnerships can advance the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Borders and barriers in harm reduction

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Mexico and Canada may be physically separated by thousands of kilometres, but people like Jaime Arredondo Sanchez Lira—the new Canada Research Chair in Substance Use and Health Policy Research at UVic—are working to bring them closer together when it comes to harm reduction and drug policy.

New COVID-19 test measures virus proteins

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Less than 0.1 mL of blood is all that UVic researchers need, in an exciting commercial-academic partnership that has developed a “gold standard” test for COVID-19 using cutting-edge technology.

Awards for CUFA BC 2022

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The CUFA BC honours exceptional academics with its Distinguished Academics Awards. And this year, two of the three awards go to UVic scholars: Sarah Wright Cardinal and Colin Bennett.

AI research drives better auto sales

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A Canadian e-commerce marketplace that brings together consumers and car dealerships from across the country is relying on UVic expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) to improve its operations and enhance its customers’ online experience.

Link between telescopes reveals a galactic fossil

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UVic astronomer Kim Venn co-led an international team that found one of these traces—a first-of-its-kind discovery that was published in Nature earlier this year. Not only was it a breakthrough for what they found—a star cluster with the lowest concentration of metals ever observed—it was made possible by making two ground-based telescopes work together in a new way.

Composers creating with choreographers

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Three School of Music composers create new pieces for Ballet BC choreographers, to debut at the Dance Victoria studios.

Drug checking as community building

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The Vancouver Island Drug Checking Project, led by UVic social work professor Bruce Wallace and chemistry professor Dennis Hore, is a blend of research, service and partnerships including several UVic faculties, people who use drugs, students, government agencies, community groups and more.

2021 Provost’s Awards in Engaged Scholarship

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A world-renowned conservationist, an anthropologist and the director of the UVic Environmental Law Clinic are the three 2021 recipients of the Provost’s Awards in Engaged Scholarship, announced on March 18 as part of the Reach Awards ceremony.

Close encounter: interstellar fly-by

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Together with an international research team, UVic astronomer Ruobing Dong uncovered the first evidence of a stellar flyby disturbing the protoplanetary disk—or birthplace of planets—using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA).

LSQ to retire as ensemble in 2023

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"Great things have to stop at some point"—Joanna Hood, Sharon Stanis, Pam Highbaugh Aloni and Ann Elliott-Goldschmid will take their last bow as the Lafayette String Quartet in 2023.

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