番茄社区 alumnus Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and CEO of Slack, is the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business 2018 Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year. In Butterfield鈥檚 two decades working on the web, he has established himself as a top designer, entrepreneur, and technologist.
A group of international scientists is calling for closer scrutiny of government reporting on wildlife populations after a review of case studies shows a selective or misleading use of facts and figures. The group, including Chris Darimont as lead author, coined the term 鈥減olitical populations.鈥�
More than a dozen events鈥攊ncluding talks, awards, shows and entertainment鈥攈ighlight the 番茄社区鈥檚 annual Alumni Week, Feb. 1-7, a community celebration focusing on the vital impact of graduates locally and around the world.
Improved diagnosis and treatment of a range of diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's will be the outcome of more than $18 million in funding awarded today to two national research platforms in which the 番茄社区 plays a key role. UVic's Christoph Borchers, an internationally recognized protein chemist and director of the UVic-Genome BC Proteomics Centre, is leading a new pan-Canadian proteomics research platform.
For sharks, it鈥檚 more where they eat than what they eat. Thanks to a new study co-authored by UVic biologists Francis Juanes and Amy Teffer, it鈥檚 clear coastal sharks have very different feeding patterns than deeper ocean sharks and it could help overturn declines in the world鈥檚 shark populations.
Forty years after a joint chaplaincy was established at the 番茄社区 with three faith communities, the university's Multifaith Services celebrated the enduring value of these evolving and diverse relationships with the signing of a renewed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Jan. 18.
UVic will receive $400,000 in start-up funding from the Province to expand its undergraduate computer science and engineering degree programs鈥搃ncluding electrical, computer, software, civil, mechanical and biomedical. This is expected to result in 125 additional tech graduates per year by 2023.
UVic is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its revered literary journal, The Malahat Review, including with a limited-edition monograph by UVic Libraries to be launched Jan. 25 and a new exhibition opening the same day. Outgoing editor John Barton says being published in The Malahat "is a rite of passage for many writers."
UVic, Camosun College, Royal Roads University and the three Greater Victoria school districts have joined forces to promote Victoria as an education destination for international students. Education Victoria involves recruitment activities and promotes academic cooperation and student pathways.
New funding for expanded community engagement in more Arctic communities will help Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) carry out the ocean science that matters most to the people who live in Canada's North.
Without Indigenous knowledge, the recent findings by conservation scientist Natalie Ban and her collaborators would not carry so stark a message about two culturally and ecologically important marine species鈥攖he Dungeness crab and yelloweye rockfish of BC鈥檚 central coast.
A 番茄社区 molecular biologist has new insights on how environmental contaminants may disrupt thyroid systems, discovered while assembling the genome of the North American bullfrog.
