On Dec. 6, UVic marks the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. The annual event and walk starts at 11:30 a.m., with classes cancelled for an hour and flags lowered.

Historian Jordan Stanger-Ross is one of five academics from across Canada who will be honoured in the House of Commons today after receiving a prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Impact award, which is one of the highest national awards for Canadian researchers.

Four decades after the start of a pandemic that has claimed 40 million lives, University of Victoria researchers are putting the stories of British Columbians who lived through the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the spotlight. HIV In My Day, a community-based oral history project led by School of Public Health and Social Policy Associate Professor Nathan Lachowsky, captures the stories of 120 long-term HIV survivors and caregivers.

HIV In My Day, a community-based oral history project that gathered the stories of HIV survivors and caregivers during the early years of BC’s HIV/AIDS epidemic, has been adapted into a play. In My Day will premiere in Vancouver at The Cultch theatre, the day after World AIDS Day. The play takes its script from almost 120 oral history interviews collected from 2017 to 2020 as part of a University of Victoria-led research project.

Seven University of Victoria faculty who are leaders in quantum physics, assistive technologies, virology, geophysics, drug discovery, software engineering and biostatistics are named new or renewed Canada Research Chairs (CRCs).

Curran Crawford, director of the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems at the University of Victoria (IESVic), and his research colleagues are joining forces to bridge the gap in clean energy transitions for communities.

The University of Victoria women's field hockey and women's rowing teams prove why they are among the best in Canada, bringing home two national championship banners in one weekend.

For sociology grad Jasmine Webster, community-engaged learning courses at UVic focused her passion for a career in the non-profit sector. “The skills you learn simply from engaging with people with different lived experiences shape your approach to community-based work,” says Webster.

When aliens appeared over Montana in the 2016 blockbuster film Arrival, Caroline Allen—a linguistics undergraduate at the University of Montana at the time—was thrilled. Only a linguist could save the day? Great fiction.

For graduating student Kailee Hibbert, a curiosity about identity, feminism and race led her to study sociology and gender studies at UVic.

When the US Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June, it threw into turmoil the issue of reproductive rights south of the border and made abortion activists in Canada and around the world take notice. Two UVic faculty members paid particular attention, as they’d been working on a research project on access to abortion services for Indigenous people.

UVic researcher is part of a national team that will develop instruments to be deployed into space as part of an international NASA satellite mission: the Atmosphere Observing System (AOS).

UVic’s campaign to support United Way Southern Vancouver Island (SVI) launches this month. UVic campus community is invited to give generously through payroll deduction and by attending various initiatives and events throughout the year

An ambitious research project, led by UVic researchers, will create the first Canadian assessment of the storage capacity of blue carbon ecosystems to help mitigate climate change.

Meet Ian Mauro, the new executive director of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, a four-university partnership hosted and led by UVic. Mauro believes in storytelling, in partnership, and in a solutions-oriented focus to climate change. Read more about his approach and why he rejects dire narratives about our ability to take impactful climate action.

The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions and the University of Victoria welcome Dr. Ian Mauro to his new role as executive director of PICS and professor of environmental studies at UVic , effective Nov. 1, 2022. Mauro, an acclaimed environmental scientist, filmmaker and multimedia producer who has worked with local communities and Indigenous Nations and Peoples across Canada, brings his passion for storytelling and collaboration to the role.