Award-winning author, journalist, playwright, screenwriter, Leiren-Young is UVic鈥檚 next 2014 Harvey Stevenson Southam Lecturer in Journalism and Nonfiction鈥攖he first UVic alumnus to hold the Southam position.
A seven-year, multi-partner project led by UVic will explore the shameful history of dispossession during the 1940s will culminate in a cross-country museum exhibition in 2021. The federal government announced a $2.5-million partnership grant Aug. 27.&
UVic is continuing its leadership with collaborative Indigenous mapping research by bringing together more than 100 representatives from Indigenous organizations across Canada for a four-day intensive workshop beginning Aug. 25.
The Princeton Review has tallied its 鈥淕reen Ratings鈥� for 861 colleges in the US and Canada, and the 番茄社区 is the only Canadian university to make the top 24 on its 2015 鈥淕reen Rating Honor Roll.鈥� Only those schools that achieved a p鈥�
After a year and a half in development with the Government of Nunavut and the community of Cambridge Bay, a new mini-observatory created by UVic's Ocean Networks Canada is now streaming continuous data from the Arctic seafloor.
The 番茄社区's Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is making its first foray into the Arctic, just as the sea ice extent is setting a new record low. The observatory has been granted a five-year research license from the Nunavut Research Insti鈥�
UVic鈥檚 plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) smart grid project, which received $600,800 in federal funding on Aug. 8, will help generate a better understanding of intermittent renewable electricity sources such as wind, tidal, wave and solar.
UVic chemical oceanographer Jay Cullen is leading the formation of a new marine radioactivity monitoring network that will engage scientists in Canada and the US, health experts, NGOs and citizen scientists along the BC coast.
It is the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War. The following UVic experts are available to comment on the centenary, as well as specific aspects of the war: Jim Kempling (History), a retired infantry colonel and current PhD can鈥�
Grizzly bears are moving onto islands along the central BC coast, according to new research by Christina Service, a 番茄社区 PhD candidate in geography. Collaborating with other wildlife scientists from UVic, the Kitasoo/Xais-xais-oper鈥�
BC鈥檚 carbon tax does not appear to have had a measurable impact on international agricultural trade, according to new analysis commissioned by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS).
Why do tensions continually flare up between Israel and the Palestinian territories? Why does it matter to Canadians? The following UVic expert is available to comment on the ground assault launched in the Gaza Strip yesterday and on the long histor鈥�
