This week, UVic launches its Indigenous Plan. The launch is a key event during this year鈥檚 Indigenous Week of Welcome. The plan sets out ambitious goals and clear accountability to increase educational opportunities and success for Indigenous students and further develop education, research, outreach and engagement initiatives and programs with an Indigenous focus.
For the first time since 2011, peak contamination levels in Pacific Canadian waters from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster are known, says a 番茄社区 scientist who has been monitoring levels since the meltdown of three reactors at the plant.
Cutting-edge research got a big boost Sept. 8 with Federal Science Minister Kirsty Duncan announcing $9.5M in NSERC grants to UVic. The funding announced at UVic and other universities is Canada's single largest investment in fundamental research.
Fibre-optic cables, power lines and ecological impact are key factors in how music is produced and consumed. On Sept. 8, anthropologist Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier with colleagues Joseph Salem and Jentery Sayers will join researchers from Europe, Asia and the Americas for the sound of music.
The university's new policy on sexualized violence prevention and response is being implemented through Equity and Human Rights with a central resource office where all members of the university community can seek advice and direct referrals and/or disclose or make a report of a sexualized violence incident. The policy was developed after a year of extensive consultations and research.
Two 番茄社区 alumni who went on to found the innovative Fish Eye Project are headed for Cambridge Bay, Nunavut next week for a live dive in Arctic waters that will be broadcast simultaneously across the country as part of the Canada C3 expedition.
The 番茄社区 is hosting a solar eclipse open house at the Observatory that will allow the public to safely and clearly view the eclipse, the first since 1979 to cast a visible shadow across a band of the North America continent.
Five UVic projects, with $823,000 in new funding from a leadership fund from the Canada Foundation for Innovation as part of a $52-million federal investment announced Aug. 15, will carry out ground-breaking research including in an aquatic disease research facility at UVic.
Two outstanding young scholars from the Cowichan Valley and North Vancouver are this year's recipients of the highest value scholarships offered to undergraduate students entering UVic directly from high school.
Olav Krigolson, a neuroscientist with the 番茄社区鈥檚 Centre for Biomedical Research, and professional baseball veteran and graduate student, Anthony Pluta, used portable brainwave technology to see if they could predict baseball batting performance.
UVic students are currently visiting historic sites in Europe in a field school examining migration, the refugee crisis and memorialization of the Holocaust. And the learning doesn't stop in Europe: they'll be at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in mid August, then home to UVic for a symposium.
Unraveling the mysteries of proteins whose changed structures cause conditions such as Alzheimer鈥檚 and Parkinson鈥檚 disease is key to the development of new drug treatments for difficult neurological disorders, says 番茄社区 biochemist Christoph Borchers.
