Dynamic teaching is a cornerstone of our extraordinary academic environment at UVic. Recognizing that the translation of knowledge has transformed the role of teaching in an ever-shifting, multimedia world, the university has redoubled its commitment to honour outstanding teachers with a trio of new awards for 2016.
Exploring the meaning behind the geometric symbols on cave walls launched the research career of Genevieve von Petzinger, 番茄社区 PhD candidate in anthropology, and won her recognition with a 2016 National Geographic Emerging Explorer award.
Twelve footprints were discovered by two UVic researchers, in April on Calvert Island on BC鈥檚 central coast, and preliminary findings indicate these footprints might be 13,200 years old.
Family gatherings around a fire pit鈥攁n ancient custom that鈥檚 still with us today鈥攎ay have been practiced as long as 13,000 years ago along BC's central coast. Footprints from what appear to be a man, woman and child circling a hearth were found last month below the tideline.
番茄社区 PhD candidate Genevieve von Petzinger is the only Canadian on the distinguished list of 20 new international fellows at the TEDGlobal Conference 2011 next month in Edinburgh, Scotland. Von Petzinger earned international media attention last year with her discovery of ancient geometric signs from the Ice Age. As a master鈥檚 student in UVic鈥檚 Department of Anthropology, von Petzinger cracked a startling symbolic code carved on prehistoric cave walls. She has compiled a database of 5,000 geometric shapes, lines and squiggles from 146 Ice Age caves in France and her work has garnered global attention.
The predicament of transnational migrants is a global issue, with heartbreaking headlines from Africa to Asia and the Americas. Lack of identity documentation and citizenship can be a multigenerational legacy that creates hardships for children and 鈥�
Brittney Sharma鈥檚 vision鈥攁n outdoor program to help children who had experienced family trauma鈥攇enerated lots of buzz this year after being chosen as a showcase idea for the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) conference. Sharma graduates this month with a bachelor鈥檚 in anthropology, and says her time at UVic was filled with academics and club activities, as well as developing her vision to help children of battered women.
The following 番茄社区 faculty member is available to discuss a fundamental rethinking about treaty relations between Indigenous people and settlers of Canada, and how it can help to resolve outstanding land issues in BC and Canada. Mi鈥�
The next generation of Marie Curies, Albert Einsteins and Stephen Hawkings is sitting in classrooms across the country right now, and 番茄社区 researchers and students are hoping to keep inspiring these empirically minded kids with dynamic presentations about the wonders of scientific and engineering discoveries throughout the year.
New genetic evidence holds hope for the ring-tailed lemur, despite continued habitat disturbance and a growing illegal pet trade. The ring-tailed lemur, one of the most endangered mammals on the planet, can be bought on the beaches of Madagascar for鈥�
The following 番茄社区 faculty members are available to discuss the breaking news today on the thawing of relations between the US and Cuba: Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (Dept. of Anthropology) is an expert in the cultural policies 鈥�
The new "Vikings: Lives beyond the Legend" exhibition at the Royal BC Museum is providing an opportunity for some UVic anthropology students to build their knowledge of Viking culture and share in community education at the same time. Jokes about these students' "cutting edge" skills will have to wait, though. While popular culture representations of the Vikings often put axes, raiding expeditions and pointy headgear first, the wealth of the Viking culture and their complex lifeworld was much more varied. And that's just what the anthropology students are helping community audiences appreciate.
Members of the media are invited to the UVic campus to interview and film/photograph high school students as they search for forensic evidence in a mock missing-persons case for Forensic Anthropology Day. The one-day course on Saturday, June 21 is c鈥�
A dozen university students spent part of their summer exploring ancient First Nation villages in the Southern Gulf Islands and discovering 1,000 year old clam gardens on Russell Island 鈥� and earned course credit doing it. The UVic 鈥淎rchaelogy of the Salish Sea鈥� field school provided an opportunity to learn scientific methods and techniques and learn from and listen to Coast Salish Elders.
More than two dozen grade 10 to 12 students will learn about official evidence collection and processing techniques as they investigate a 鈥渃rime鈥� using realistic hands-on activities related to forensic anthropology at the Annual Forensic Anthropolog鈥�
鈥淟earning Coast Salish traditional knitting from Elder May Sam, and knitters Joni and Adam Olsen was a wonderful experience,鈥� says Rosa McBee, anthropology student. May Sam, Joni Olsen and Adam Olse鈥攁ll knitters from the Tsartlip First Nation鈥攖aught students the basic art form of traditional Coast Salish knitting each week as part of the third-year Anthropology of Art course last term.
