Rachel and Sarah Lachmansingh have both been named winners of the Victoria Medal, the first time this annual award for Faculty of Fine Arts graduates has been presented to two people.
UVic alumni contribute talent, technical and creative power to Victoria’s burgeoning film industry.
Alumna Tanya Lloyd Kyi (BA ’96) is a superstar children’s author—keeping the focus on fun and trusting in her young readers’ innate curiosity about the world.
UVic social sciences grad and Crookes professor Sean Holman works long hours trying to bring a human face to the way the media covers climate change—and build communities of action.
Recent Writing graduate Jenessa Joy Klukas covers child welfare, education and Indigenous issues as part of her busy freelance career.
Pioneering jurist Marion Buller, the University of Victoria’s chancellor, former UVic president Jamie Cassels and Jan Zwicky, acclaimed poet and philosopher and professor emeritus are among 85 new appointments to the Order of Canada.
Canadians selected for induction into the Order of Canada have made “extraordinary contributions” to the nation. Pioneering jurist Marion Buller is one of 85 new appointments announced today by Governor General Mary Simon.
University of Victoria Professor and President Emeritus Jamie Cassels was appointed a member of the Order of Canada for his contributions as a university administrator, law scholar, and for his commitment to improving access to higher education.
Star poet, UVic associate professor, filmmaker and world traveller Shane Book (BA ’99) finds inspiration in hip-hop, jazz and never staying in one place.
In a new book for youth, Aggie and Mudgy: The Journey of Two Kaska Dena Children, UVic anthropology alumna Wendy Proverbs traces the 1,600-kilometre voyage of sisters forced from their remote village to Lejac Residential School.
A donor’s visionary gift allows the creation of a memory vault for climate disaster survivors
Sean Holman, lead of UVic's Climate Disaster Project, can speak on how journalism and storytelling help to build hope in the aftermath of ongoing climate disasters in communities across Canada.
Author, community organizer and social justice advocate Colleen Hele-Cardinal will share and reflect upon her experiences growing up in a non-Indigenous household as a ‘60s scoop adoptee as the keynote event of UVic’s fourth annual Humanities Week.
Co-sponsored by UVic Libraries and Equity and Human Rights (EQHR) with significant support from other units on campus, the on the Verge Writing Contest deadline closes Friday, February 25. The contest showcases and celebrates emerging UVic stud…
Acclaimed writer and recent UVic grad Kim Senklip Harvey recalls her life to date in ceremonies—and lineups, many lineups.
A new first-of-its-kind survey co-led by Crookes Professor Sean Holman in the Faculty of Fine Arts finds a majority of scientists and journalists believe media should cover climate as a crisis.
