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What will the Holocaust mean to new generations in the 21st century? This summer, the world saw shocking film footage of Edward VIII in 1933 teaching the Nazi salute to the Queen as a young girl in the same year Hitler came to power in Germany, with subsequent international media coverage putting pressure on the royal family to open its archives and also raising important questions about a real risk of losing the educational legacies of the 1940s. As home to the I-witness Holocaust Field School (the first of its kind for undergraduate students at a Canadian university) and the UVic Holocaust Archive, UVic hosted a global gathering early this month to explore Holocaust education as a means to tackle contemporary issues of hatred, racism, antisemitism, islamophobia, xenophobia, ethnic conflict and genocide.

When Sean Cunningham, Carissa Ouellette and Matt Holland started working on their final engineering design project last September, they had no idea that it would become the foundation for a new company, but they knew they were onto something really exciting.聽 The three electrical engineering students began their joint 鈥�3D Stereo Navigation鈥� project, an audio-based GPS mobile application for the visually impaired, and soon discovered that what they were working on had never been done successfully in the academic or commercial world.

Rowan Meredith misses the rain. The Slavic studies major, who graduates from UVic in November with the highest GPA in her faculty, has trudged the empty rail beds of former concentration camps in Central Europe and visited Russia in the throes of Olympic mania鈥攂ut now she is in Los Angeles for graduate studies and 鈥渕isses the rain desperately. It never ever rains here. Having grown up on BC鈥檚 west coast, it seems bizarre to me. I鈥檓 not dealing well without rain.鈥�

A lifelong love of maps led Michael Branion-Calles to the master鈥檚 degree he receives this month in geography. But his path was not straightforward鈥攊t started in English. 鈥淚 began my undergrad degree at UVic in English,鈥� says Branion-Calles, 鈥渂ut once I took an elective geography class I quickly changed my degree path.鈥� He says his appreciation for maps goes back to his childhood and as a kid he always liked maps鈥攁n affection that eventually pointed him to the spatial pattern analysis and research (SPAR) lab in the geography department.

鈥淲ithout art, I would never have discovered I was a teacher.鈥�

The 番茄社区 congratulates Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his team of 30 new cabinet ministers鈥攕worn in today at a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa鈥攚hich, notably for the campus community, includes three UVic alumnae.

The UVic Faculty of Education is celebrating 100 years of preparing educators in Victoria with a range of events that began with a forum and celebratory dinner on Oct. 3.聽

On Nov. 5, UVic grad Rona Ambrose was named as the interim leader of the federal Conservative party. An Alberta Member of Parliament since 2004, she held several cabinet positions within the Conservative government, including Environment, Intergover鈥�

Over 250 番茄社区 students and alumni will fan out across the region on Saturday, Oct. 3 to volunteer in 19 local organizations as part of Project Serve Day. Coordinated by UVic and Volunteer Victoria, Project Serve introduces students鈥�

Thousands of UVic students and their families and friends will gather on campus this month to celebrate the achievement of an academic milestone. During Spring Convocation from June 8-12, ceremonies will be held to confer 3,649 degrees, diplomas and certificates.

Education grad Mike Irvine took academia beneath the waves for his scuba-diving master's defence When education grad student Mike Irvine first posed his master鈥檚 project research question to his advisor, the idea struck Jason Price as a humourous oxymoron. Irvine wanted to explore how technology could be used as a tool to reconnect kids to nature.聽

Art Napoleon was already a national figure when his TV show, Moosemeat & Marmalade, premiered on APTN in January 2015. He had performed at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, opened for Buffy Sainte-Marie and been interviewed by veteran correspondent Tom Hawthorn for the Globe and Mail in September 2010 for the release of his album Creeland Covers, sung almost exclusively in Cree.

When it comes to stage design, the Prague Quadrennial is as good as it gets鈥攁nd this year, a pair of Department of Theatre alumni will help represent Canada. 鈥淚t鈥檚 the Venice Biennalie of stage design,鈥� says theatre professor Allan Stichbury. 鈥淚t鈥檚 the top in terms of recognizing stage design in the world.鈥�

Innovation at the elemental scale could help us move beyond oil-based polymers You might not see the results of his research on store shelves in the next few years, but PhD graduate Saurabh Chitnis is helping to change the very makeup of the world around us. Chitnis is a fundamental chemist working on developing new chemical compounds.

While many educational experiences are a straight road from enrollment to convocation, some routes are more circuitous. Bader Murad鈥攚ho graduates this June with a Master of Global Business (MGB) from the Sardul S. Gill Graduate School at the Gustavson School of Business鈥攖ook a while to find his way. Convocation isn鈥檛 the only milestone for Murad: he鈥檚 also arrived triumphantly at his first career destination.聽

For Emily Mailes of Melbourne, Australia, deciding what to study was a daunting process. 鈥淚 was not one of those people who always knew what they wanted to do.鈥澛� Six years post-high school and having relocated to Victoria, Emily decided to pick a path and move forward with her life. 鈥淯Vic鈥檚 School of Health Information Sciences stood out,鈥� she says. A relative is a grad who now has an interesting and lucrative career. The global opportunities across the tech sector held considerable appeal along with the school鈥檚 promise of guaranteed placement upon graduation.聽