McKinnon Pool to close its doors after 50 years
The University of Victoria has made the difficult decision to close McKinnon pool. The facility has reached the end of its natural lifecycle and is now too costly to maintain.
The University of Victoria has made the difficult decision to close McKinnon pool. The facility has reached the end of its natural lifecycle and is now too costly to maintain.
The following University of Victoria experts are available to media to discuss themes related to Pride.
Thanks to technology, entire generations are unearthing communities of like-minded people. Podcasting as a storytelling form has been around since the early 2000s, as MP3 audio file technology became more accessible via the ever-expanding internet.
Graduate student’s comprehensive needs assessment to support urban Ojibwe people in reclaiming language and culture whether near or far from homelands
In the fall, 25 First Nations and Metis nurses from across BC will embark officially on their graduate studies at their home institutions as part of the Indigenous Graduate Education in Nursing (I-GEN) program, including eight students at UVic. A partnership between Indigenous communities, UVic, UBC-Okanagan, UBC-Vancouver, Thompson Rivers University and Trinity Western University, the first-of-its-kind master’s program is designed to decolonize and Indigenize nursing where graduate students live and work. The goals include bolstering the retention of Indigenous nurses, improving health outcomes for Indigenous communities and strengthening relational partnerships with First Nations, Métis, and Inuk health leaders to improve Indigenous health nursing education, practice and research.
Summer is here and heat and smoke may be in the forecast soon. The university has a range of strategies and tips to keep everyone safe during hot weather or when our region experiences wildfire smoke.
A team of researchers led by UVic and the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre is attempting to regrow kelp forests, working closely with British Columbia coastal First Nations.
Taking online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic at 3 a.m. India-time may not have been the ideal first-year experience, but it didn’t deter Aashna Kulshreshtha from enthusiastically pursuing her undergraduate degree in art history at UVic. …
Listening to Kailey Strachan talk about trees, you can immediately tell that it’s a topic she’s passionate about. The biology student, graduating with a concentration in forest biology this spring, has been fascinated with nature and the outdoors since she was young. UVic’s forest biology program was a perfect fit.
When it comes to career paths, most music students aspire to professional positions after graduation—playing with an orchestra, say, or becoming a chamber musician or band teacher. Not so with Philip Manning, who took a different approach to h…
Emily (Williams) Salmon graduates with a PhD in International Management and Organization from UVic’s Gustavson School of Business this month. The Coast Salish researcher has already launched her career, joining Simon Fraser University as assi…
When it comes to pursuing one’s passion through education, it’s never too late to start—and learning as a mature student offers many professional advantages, according to Solomon Rosenberg, who returned to school at 35 to pursue hi…
When Maddy Yonkers crosses the stage for convocation at the University of Victoria in June to receive her bachelor’s degree, it will be the first time she has set foot on the island.
Graduating this spring, anthropology major/sociology minor undergraduate student, Emma Emile appreciates her time at UVic and especially how anthropology “sparked critical reflection on what it means to be human.”
As a student in Mandarin classes at UVic, Mina Guan approached the material as someone who grew up with Mandarin and Cantonese in the home—what’s known as a heritage language learner. In class, she found a community of other heritage lan…
When you ask graduating Honours English student and Loran Scholar Maya Wei Yan Linsley about their work, they might tell you, “I took being a nerd a little too seriously.” You could call research the driving force behind Linsley’s …