The ACE for Artists program tailors the award-winning ACE entrepreneurship training program to Indigenous artists, helping them connect their passion to a business plan by
developing the tools they need to become financially successful.
John Borrows, one of Canada鈥檚 foremost law scholars and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at UVic, is the winner of the 2019 Canada Council Molson Prize in social sciences
and humanities.
UVic鈥檚 unique Indigenous International Work-Integrated Learning Exchange Program鈥攖he first of its kind in the world鈥攈as been awarded the 2019 British Columbia Council for
International Education鈥檚 (BCCIE) Award for Outstanding Program in International Education for its high-quality and highly creative programming in international education.
Barbara Todd Hager, UVic鈥檚 new Indigenous communications officer in the Office of Indigenous Academic and Community Engagement, is the latest recipient of the prestigious annual
Indspire Arts Award.
UVic鈥檚 scientific diving program has given three decades of students the tools, training and hands-on learning they need to safely and successfully conduct research under
water.
During a two-week stay in Canada, UVic geography faculty and three Maasai from Tanzania exchanged cultural knowledge and practices with First Nations from the T鈥檚ouke and
Tla-o-qui-aht on Vancouver Island to the Selkirk and Carcross-Tagish peoples of the Yukon.
Securing funding for a new national centre for Indigenous law and reconciliation, and launching the world鈥檚 first Indigenous law degree program, are just two of the significant
steps UVic has taken this year to advance its commitment to foster鈥
Cultural exchange is a core component of the program at UVic鈥檚 English Language Centre. A simple request for "something more"鈥攕uggested by the Department of Education in the state
of Veracruz, Mexico鈥攃reated what has become an invaluable opportunity for Indigenous-international collaboration and dynamic learning at UVic.
In an ongoing effort toward reconciliation, Andrea Walsh has been on a decade-long journey to repatriate residential school art work. 鈥淭he repatriation work began with the Alberni
IRS,鈥 says Walsh, 鈥渁nd our collaborative work to build research partnerships has extended across the country to smaller northern institutions in Manitoba and Ontario.鈥
UVic social work student Santanna Hernandez's path to university was full of twists and turns鈥攎uch like the Columbia River cutting through her hometown of Trail, BC. Now a mother
of four, Hernandez will graduate from UVic in 2019 and is currently applying to medical schools.