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Protecting children from exploitation: Online Behaviour Approach

The Conversation

Protecting children from exploitation: Online Behaviour Approach

FishSounds launches

Media release

UVic researchers work with global partners to launch a website dedicated to providing free access to FishSounds. Understanding the sounds made by fish can help to determine the best approaches to address marine pollution and climate change ocean impacts.

Making higher education accessible worldwide

The Ring

A passion for music and computers inspired Professor George Tzanetakis to transform his popular UVic course for a global platform so it could reach an unlimited audience.

Global walk to fight poverty marches online

UVic faculty, staff, and students are helping to transform the lives of marginalized communities in Africa and Asia with the World Partnership Walk, this year a virtual voyage around the world.

Science Venture’s summer online a success

The Ring

Leaders of UVic’s Science Venture are astonished at how successfully their team was able to transition its hugely popular youth summer camps to a virtual format.

UVic Science, learning online

YouTube

UVic Science, learning online

Online Learning at UVic

YouTube

Online Learning at UVic

Transgender resources

The Ring

In 2017, a project began behind the scenes to enhance online services and information for trans, Two-Spirit and non-binary students and employees. The new web resource launched on the Equity and Human Rights (EQHR) website in the fall.

Changes to online Ring

The Ring

In November, UVic will be launching a new online hub for campus news, which will gather in one place all the great UVic news stories you know and love, as well as administrative notices, news releases and articles about UVic published by external news sources.

Victoria to Vimy

The Ring

As Canada marks the 100th anniversary of the Battle for Vimy Ridge on April 9, a new virtual exhibit of historical material--Victoria to Vimy--is unveiled by Special Collections and University Archives with compelling stories from the home front including of Joseph Clearihue, UVic’s first Chancellor.

New online inventory for Chinese Canadian artifacts in BC

The Ring

The UVic database of Chinese Canadian Artifacts officially launches July 7 at the evening reception of an annual international conference, ISSCO 2016 in Richmond, BC, bringing together 300 scholars and researchers of the Chinese diaspora.

Chinese Canadian Artifacts Project

The Ring

The University of Victoria is taking a lead role this year in the Chinese Canadian Artifacts Project (CCAP) to establish an online inventory of Chinese Canadian artifacts held by local museums.

Online Academic Community

The Ring

Looking to create a personal website? A blog to discuss your latest research? Maybe you want a place to show off photos of your cat? Thanks to the Online Academic Community (OAC), current University of Victoria employees and students can now create their own websites and blogs—all you need is a NetLink ID. With more than 100 themes and plugins available, UVic faculty, staff and students can create, customize and manage their own sites—professional or personal—through a university-supported WordPress platform.

Temporary online jobs site launched

The Ring

Due to technical difficulties with uHire, a temporary online job posting and application system has been introduced. A new permanent online job management system is expected to be launched in summer 2014, which will greatly improve the experience of those applying for employment at UVic as well as administrators and hiring committee members.

Putting the brakes on climate change

The Ring

It all began with a request from government. Could the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS), which is hosted and led by UVic, come up with an informative yet engaging way to explain the complicated science behind global warming? As a result, world-leading climate scientists—who were fortuitously based in Victoria—got together to create the first free, interactive online course in PICS’s Climate Insights 101 series, Climate Science Basics, which was launched by then-Environment Minister Terry Lake in August 2011.

New online course shows how to slow climate change

Media release

A new online, animated course released today by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) outlines an arsenal of practical methods and policy options for successfully combating human-induced climate change.

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