Gustavson School of Business third-year students get familiar with global sustainability challenges through the Mission Impossible annual project matching teams of domestic students with incoming exchange students. First conceived by Monika Winn, it鈥檚 a rite of passage for BCom students entering the core year.
Amazing life of Stewart Butterfield
Together, mother and daughter Umeeda and Nareena Switlo run a thriving international food and beverage business that provides needed employment in Belize.
The 2019 Gustavson Brand Trust Index indicates consumers view brands positively when a crisis is responded to with honest, authentic remedies. The insight is evidenced by Mountain Equipment Co-op leading this year's ranking. MEC took several positive actions in response to criticism over the lack of diversity of people in their ads.
Over the course of their careers, health geographer Denise Cloutier and business professor Brent Mainprize have been deeply engaged with communities鈥攃reating better lives for older adults and Indigenous youth across British Columbia. As the 2019 recipients of the Provost鈥檚 Engaged Scholar Award, Cloutier and Mainprize鈥檚 commitment to healthy aging and Indigenous peoples will be celebrated during Ideafest.
Student teams from UVic鈥檚 Gustavson School of Business swept the South Island Prosperity Project's community-improvement Future Innovator Challenge, taking the top three spots of the post-secondary category. The challenge engages young innovators in helping to improve the quality of life for citizens of the region.
From supporting Syrian refugees鈥� arrival to Victoria, to curating interactive exhibits and identifying opportunities in the labour market, this year鈥檚 UVic Co-op Students of the Year are positive change makers. Each student was recognized by their co-operative education programs for their meaningful and outstanding contribution to multiple areas of their life including class, the workplace and the greater community.聽
Chocolate is on the mind of many people this month for Valentine鈥檚 Day, but new research by UVic geographer Sophia Carodenuto has revealed troubling questions about the sustainability of this sweet treat.
A new paper by UVic geographer Sophia Carodenuto reveals troubling questions and provides specific recommendations for the future of cocoa farming in some of the world鈥檚 key cocoa-producing countries鈥擟么te d'Ivoire, Ghana and Cameroon鈥攁midst the pressures of climate change, soil erosion and excessive forest loss.
Innovator and entrepreneur Sue Paish, QC, CEO of Canada's Digital Technology Supercluster is the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business 2019 Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year. Sue's ability to lead people through technological transformations with great success is a quality we're excited to celebrate.
When brilliant minds come together, tough problems get solved. Just ask Island Health, which now has a new way to address an issue affecting hundreds of vulnerable Vancouver Island residents after a team led by international business students at UVic鈥檚 Gustavson School of Business cracked the case.
Tamika Rodney, BCom '18, was completing a hospitality management diploma at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology when a fateful need for caffeine and some eye-catching island photos conspired to redirect her toward UVic's Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, and a complete life change鈥攖hough she didn't realize it at the time.
A network of artisans is the fabric of business for Dara Jarallah, a Master of Global Business student (pictured above), who launched her social start-up Shoppinglee two years ago and is currently completing a co-op term in Jordan.
Two former UVic students, Patrick McFadden and Kyle Hagen, independently co-founded Iris Dynamics and launched a Kickstarter campaign in 2013 to develop this unique human-machine interface. Now, five years later, they have a bustling office on Quadra Street and a growing number of projects and partners. They have seven employees, two of whom are UVic students pursuing engineering degrees.
UVic alumnus JC Fraser is general manager of the Vancouver Canadians, a professional minor-league baseball team affiliated with the Toronto Blue Jays. Fraser is responsible for finding sponsors and filling seats at the 67-year-old stadium. Last season, the club sold 98 per cent of their tickets.
Daniel Edler, founder of 49 Below Artisan Ice Cream, is a UVic alumnus who recently made a bold life change. His idea: get married, become a father and start an ice-cream business.
