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.
Andrew Petter and Linda Catlin Smith receive UVic鈥檚 highest academic honour on Nov. 14 and 15, when they receive honorary degrees during the UVic's fall convocation ceremonies.
Unlearning colonial ways is a journey with many steps. For the 番茄社区, those next steps are grounded in language and ancestral teachings鈥攇uided by Indigenous communities鈥攖o ensure the work is done in a good way. UVic launches X史k史蓹n蓹艐 ist蓹l | W瘫然ENE峁圛STEL | Helping to move each other forward: UVic鈥檚 Indigenous Plan. With local Indigenous teachings and L蓹k虛史蓹艐蓹n and SEN膯O纽EN language woven throughout, this new plan proposes a fundamental rethinking of the institution鈥檚 approach to learning and work.
A global UVic research partnership will design and advance a sustainability framework to integrate Indigenous knowledge into sustainability projects.
Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) has recorded the highest daily average summertime temperatures at two of its seafloor observatory sites in the northeast Pacific Ocean since continuous live monitoring started there in 2009.
As the world grapples with hot ocean temperatures, new UVic research shows marine heatwave coral impact is worse than we thought before.
