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2016 Provost鈥檚 Engaged Scholars
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Dr. Jessica Ball (child and youth care) and Dr. John Lutz (history) have been named the 2016 recipients of the Provost鈥檚 Engaged Scholar Award. This is the third year for the annual awards program, which celebrates the integration of outstanding scholarship, inspired teaching and real-life community engagement. It recognizes tenured faculty members who have achieved great distinction as community-engaged scholars.
2016 Provost's Engaged Scholar Award
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On March 10, celebrate the work of UVic faculty members who have integrated scholarship, teaching and real-life community-engagement to nurture positive societal change. When: Thursday, March 10 from 9:00鈥10:30 a.m. Where: University Club, Salal Room, 番茄社区
Balloons for coastal mapping
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Heavy rain did not deter 25 undergraduate geography students from their hands-on learning course on beach dynamics and coastal erosion this February. Using new digital mapping technologies including terrestrial laser scanning (ground based LiDAR), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), kites and balloons, the students captured high-resolution imagery of Cadboro Beach.
Day in the Life: Becky Cory
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Becky Cory鈥檚 office is surrounded by organized chaos, as people pop their heads in to say hi or ask a couple of questions about current class events. When someone knocks on the door of her office, Becky doesn鈥檛 hesitate to respond. Cory started working with University 101 two months before the first course began, back in 2006. The program offers free, non-credit university courses to people who聽 face significant barriers to post-secondary education.
2015 Co-op Employer of the Year
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It takes a very special co-operative education (co-op) employer to stand out from the 1,130 organizations that provided outstanding dynamic learning opportunities for UVic co-op students in 2015. It is with great excitement that the Co-operative Education Program and Career Services (Co-op and Career) has named Victoria-based LED and solar technology provider Carmanah Technologies Corporation as the 2015 UVic Co-op Employer of the Year for putting students at the forefront of emerging clean energy technologies, and for welcoming and mentoring them in the workplace in exemplary ways. Carmanah Technologies has provided positions for an impressive 18 co-op students since 2011 and has hired eight of these former students into full-time positions after graduation. The company, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2016, is known for welcoming students into Carmanah鈥檚 open and inclusive culture as valued team members rather than temporary employees.
An algorithm for teamwork
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Game programming contests drive student interest, experience and skill鈥攁nd are putting UVic on the map in the programming world On Saturday, Feb. 20, UVic played host to a virtual battle, attended by over 300 students and developers wanting to test their artificial intelligence programming skills. It was the third annual BattleSnake competition. In the classic arcade game Snake, a player maneuvers a growing 鈥渟nake鈥 around the computer screen. As the snake grows in size, it becomes more difficult for the player to avoid making the snake run into itself. BattleSnake builds on this simple game: as the snake eats apples, it grows in size. Run into a wall, your own tail, or another snake鈥檚 tail and it鈥檚 game over. But there鈥檚 a competitive aspect to this version: run head-on into another player鈥檚 snake and the longer one consumes the shorter one.
An app to help children with autism
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The newly released Let鈥檚 Face It 2.0, a scrapbook app developed by the 番茄社区鈥檚 Centre for Autism Research Technology Education (CARTE) and now available free on iTunes, is a powerful educational tool for learning faces and recognizing emotions of the important people in the lives of children on the autism spectrum. 鈥淚t is a selfie culture and I hope our app will be adopted by anyone who finds it useful,鈥 says CARTE director and UVic psychology professor Jim Tanaka. 鈥淧arents and educators can create their own storybook from people and objects in their children鈥檚 lives.鈥
75,000 co-op placements
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Forty years after launching one of Canada鈥檚 largest co-operative education programs, the 番茄社区 is celebrating its 75,000th co-op placement.
2015 Co-op Students of the Year
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Each year, UVic鈥檚 Co-operative Education Program and Career Services recognize three co-op students who have made outstanding achievements in their academic achievement, workplace performance and community involvement. One student is selected from each of our three major program areas.
New support for CARSA
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UVic's Centre for Athletics, Recreation and Special Abilities (CARSA) has had an overwhelming amount of recreation usage and community support since it opened in May 2015. Barely one month into 2016, Vikes Athletics and Recreation are pleased to announce three partnerships in the new naming of CARSA's RBC Blue and Gold Room, the UVic Alumni Association Spirit Section and the Ian and Gillian Stewart Varsity Weight Room.
Studying sea, learning land
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The Salish Sea is a vibrant international region, teeming with change鈥攕o it should come as no surprise that an international field school which puts dynamic learning experiences at the heart of sustainability leadership reflects those characteristics as well.
The roots of Canadian ecology
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Ian McTaggart Cowan archive a living legacy for contemporary research 聽 聽 The launch of a digitization project and a new archive are a providing a powerful combination of resources for ecological researchers, on and off campus. The Ian McTaggart Cowan archive, recently donated by the Cowan family to UVic Special Collections and University Archives, contains materials from McTaggart Cowan鈥檚 remarkable 75-year career as one of Canada鈥檚 foremost wildlife biologists and conservationists. 聽
Working together for health
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An enhanced research partnership between UVic and the Vancouver Island Health Authority (Island Health) is the goal of an MOU recently signed between the two organizations. Island Health is one of six health jurisdictions in BC, providing health car鈥
Reclaiming the reef net fishery
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Almost a decade ago, XEM纽OLTW瘫 Nick Claxton told his family he wanted to revitalize the reef net fishery, a fishing practice unique to the Straits Salish people and banned by the colonial government 100 years ago. His uncle advised: 鈥淵ou can鈥檛 just go fishing. You must first build a ceremonial net.鈥 And so began the spiritual, cultural and educational journey that Claxton considers his life鈥檚 work. It also became his PhD dissertation in curriculum and instruction at the 番茄社区鈥攁 research study designed to revitalize the knowledge, ceremony and practice that was nearly lost.
Catalyst Conversations
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How do Greater Victoria鈥檚 post-secondary institutions work together with municipalities to benefit the region? First, you get everyone in the same room and start the conversation. On June 2, the presidents of Royal Roads University and Camosun College joined UVic President Jamie Cassels in welcoming more than 80 elected municipal officials, city managers and academic leaders from the three post-secondary institutions to an inaugural Catalyst Conversations forum that challenged participants to imagine how they could work together to benefit our region.
UVic osprey-cam
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Every summer for the last 10 years, high above the 番茄社区鈥檚 athletic fields, a little family has been going about its daily business, largely unnoticed, except by photographers and curious onlookers willing to kink their necks and squint their eyes.
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