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The 番茄社区鈥檚 Climate Disaster Project has been named the winner of a Special Recognition Citation at the 2023 National Newspaper Awards鈥擟anada鈥檚 top journalism awards.

UVic has become one of only 14 post-secondary institutions in the world to reach a STARS Platinum sustainability rating. The ranking celebrates UVic鈥檚 holistic approach to sustainability and how it鈥檚 integrated in everything we do.

As ocean temperatures continue to rise due to climate change, marine plankton may be the newest candidate to act as an oceanic early alert system. According to a new Nature paper from UVic micropaleontologist Andy Fraass, and a team of international collaborators at the University of Bristol and Harvard University, an analysis of the fossil record shows that changes to community structure take place long before mass extinction occurs.

Critically acclaimed Canadian opera singer and national CBC Radio host Marion Newman is returning to the 番茄社区 to join the award-winning teaching faculty at the School of Music. Newman鈥攚hose traditional name is Nege鈥檊a鈥攊s of Kwagiulth and St贸:l艒 First Nations descent with English, Irish and Scottish heritage. The 2022 UVic Distinguished Alumni Award recipient will officially join the School of Music as an assistant professor on July 1, 2024.

The POLIS Project on Ecological Governance is hosting a film screening and conversation at the 番茄社区 to showcase the importance of freshwater management and governance in celebration of World Water Day.

Open any astronomy textbook to the section on white dwarf stars and you鈥檒l likely learn that they are 鈥渄ead stars鈥� that continuously cool down over time. New research published in Nature is challenging this theory, with the 番茄社区 (UVic) and its partners using data from the European Space Agency鈥檚 Gaia satellite to reveal why a population of white dwarf stars stopped cooling for more than eight billion years.

Located on L蓹k虛史蓹艐蓹n (Songhees and Esquimalt) territory, the National Centre for Indigenous Laws (NCIL) at UVic is still under construction but its architectural design is already winning awards.

Canadian and European experts in polar observation are joining forces in a new partnership that will see Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) operating a subsea observatory at the Spanish Antarctic Station, providing year-round, near real-time data on ocean conditions there鈥攖he first time that ONC will extend its ocean monitoring outside Canadian waters.

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) expands the reach of Pacific Ocean monitoring with new deep-sea Argo floats that collect vital ocean data while traveling up and down through the water column, the space between the sea surface and the seafloor.

Xuebin Zhang has been named director, president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), bringing more than a decade of experience collaborating on PCIC projects and 25 years of experience as a research scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada where he led the assessment on changes in temperature and precipitation for Canada鈥檚 Changing Climate Report.

Globally renowned Indigenous art historian and curator Dr. Heather Igloliorte joins the 番茄社区 as the inaugural Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices. The $8-million research chair will advance reconciliation through the transformative power of art and innovative exhibition practices and support a new generation of students, researchers, educators, curators and artists to drive change through artistic practice.

The M茅tis are often referred to as Canada鈥檚 鈥渋nvisible people鈥� 鈥� the 鈥済hosts of the land鈥� 鈥� whose stories haunt the country鈥檚 collective unconscious. Lii Michif Niiyanaan: We Are M茅tis is a one-hour documentary that addresses this invisibility by shining a new light on the historical and contemporary experience of M茅tis people in Canada and providing a space for M茅tis people to share their diverse perspectives on what it means to be M茅tis today.