番茄社区 alumnus Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and CEO of Slack, is the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business 2018 Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year. In Butterfield鈥檚 two decades working on the web, he has established himself as a top designer, entrepreneur, and technologist.
Phuong Duong is confident that studying at UVic will make a vital impact on her future. The 17 year old, recently arrived from Vietnam, is the first student to receive the UVic Pathways Entrance Scholarship from UVic's English Language Centre.
Ryan Beaton is not your typical law student. He likes to stir things up and ask the big questions no one else wants to ask, like "Why are we doing it this way?" and "Is this really working?" His approach can make him unpopular in a room full of lawyers, but right at home in academia.
A UVic researcher studying the epidemic of HIV and sexually transmitted infection in B.C. among men who have sex with men is one of 20 health researchers in the province selected by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research for a 2017 Scholar Award.
鈥婣n impassioned community volunteer who knows what it's like to live on the streets, and a legal scholar who wants to change how the legal system deals with Aboriginal land claims are two UVic students receiving three-year doctoral scholarships, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation announced today.
Internationally recognized composer and UVic music professor D谩niel P茅ter Bir贸 can now add one of North America's most prestigious awards to his list of honours鈥攖he Guggenheim Fellowship. He'll be using the one-year award worth $50,000 US to reflect on one of the most important issues of today: global migration.
Sarah Khan has a distinctive definition of the word "leadership," the quality for which she was recently awarded a prestigious 3M National Student Fellowship. Every project that Khan takes on is a piece of a puzzle that fits into her ultimate goal of becoming a family physician.
鈥婽wo UVic professors whose efforts to infuse their teaching and research with lessons from the Holocaust are among 10 faculty members and three graduate students receiving top awards at the university鈥檚 inaugural REACH Awards.
The celebration of this year's President's Extraordinary Service Award nominees and recipients, hosted by President Jamie Cassels, took place on May 3 at Cadboro Commons, following the first day of the Connect U conference.
John Borrows, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at UVic, was named the 2017 Killam Prize winner in Social Sciences today in Ottawa by the Canada Council for the Arts, for his substantial and distinguished scholarship and commitment to furthering our knowledge about Indigenous legal traditions.
John Borrows, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at UVic, is the 2017 Killam Prize winner in Social Sciences for his substantial and distinguished scholarship and commitment to furthering our knowledge about Indigenous legal traditions.
This May, an inaugural event鈥攖he REACH Awards鈥攚ill combine the Teaching Excellence Awards with the Craigdarroch Research Awards into a single event that celebrates the extraordinary teachers and researchers who lead the way in dynamic learning and make a vital impact at UVic, in the classroom and beyond.
Charlotte Loppie, a professor in UVic's School of Public Health and Social Policy and director of the Centre for Indigenous Research and Community-Led Engagement鈥攊s one of three Canadian researchers who will be awarded a prestigious Gold Leaf Prize from CIHR at a May 16 ceremony in Ottawa.
Internationally recognized composer and 番茄社区 music professor D谩niel P茅ter Bir贸 can now add one of North America's most prestigious awards to his list of honours鈥攖he Guggenheim Fellowship. And he'll be using the one-year award worth $50,000 US to reflect on one of the most important issues of today: global migration.
The celebration of this year's President's Extraordinary Service Award (PESA) nominees and recipients, hosted by President Jamie Cassels, will take place on May 3 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at Cadboro Commons, following the first day of the Connect U conference.
The McKinnon pool heat recovery system is just one of many initiatives that have helped UVic achieve its second gold rating with the Sustainability, Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS). The 2017 score maintains UVic鈥檚 gold ranking, originally established in 2014, and makes it the second highest-rated university in Canada.
