Graduate research
Health hackathon produces solutions
Father-daughter duo finds home at UVic
International social startup business
Weather puts focus on adaptation for buildings
US grad student part of sharks study
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When brilliant minds come together, tough problems get solved. Just ask Island Health, which now has a new way to address an issue affecting hundreds of vulnerable Vancouver Island
residents after a team led by international business students at UVic’s Gustavson School of Business cracked the case.
Chorong Kim and Chong Su Kim will cross the stage at convocation in November, marking the end of nine years together—and two degrees each—at UVic. They have shared a few brown bag
lunches along the way, as well as stressful moments as graduate students.
A network of artisans is the fabric of business for Dara Jarallah, a Master of Global Business student (pictured above), who launched her social start-up Shoppinglee two years ago
and is currently completing a co-op term in Jordan.
Climate change affects the trends in temperature and precipitation that many regions in BC are already seeing and will see more of in the future: higher annual mean temperatures;
increases in winter precipitation; and drier summers. These changes must be factored into building design to reduce risks to infrastructure and to people's health and well-being, climate
experts say.
PhD biology candidate Amy Teffer from New England is one of more than six dozen authors, including UVic fisheries ecologist Francis Juanes, of a new study on the foraging habits of
the world’s shark populations. She calls UVic “the obvious choice” for her doctorate.