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Fifteen more nurse practitioners (NPs) will be trained at the ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø this fall, helping boost the number of professionals able to offer primary health care to the more than 800,000 British Columbians without a family doctor.      New funding of $532,500 from the BC government will expand the number of seats available in the Master of Science in Nursing – Nurse Practitioner program by a third to 50 places available this September. 

The most widely used diagnostic tests for syphilis can’t differentiate between an active infection and a past one. They’re not good at identifying early and late disease and can’t diagnose congenital syphilis. UVic’s Caroline Cameron and research partners in the US and Spain are working to change that.

A team of researchers led by UVic and the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre is attempting to regrow kelp forests, working closely with British Columbia coastal First Nations.

The ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø is a leader among Canadian universities when it comes to climate impact research and programs, according to new international rankings released on Wednesday.

International researchers led by ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø microbiologist Caroline Cameron are developing a vaccine for syphilis, an ancient disease that is, once again, increasingly prevalent. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US is supporting the project with US$7.8 million over five years to engineer a hybrid protein with a goal of preventing infectious and congenital syphilis.  

The ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø is set to advance the Canadian climate policy modelling ecosystem with the launch of the Open Insights project today, supported by a gift of $2.5 million from Clean Prosperity Foundation.

Research requires more secure, faster computing power. It’s even better if the system can also deliver energy efficiency. Deployed and operated by the Research Computing Services team at the ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø, Arbutus Cloud has revolution…

From helping to convert seaweed overgrowth into benefits for the blue economy, to improving travel across sea ice, two ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø projects on Monday [eds note: June 3] received nearly $4 million in federal support to advance climate solutions.

From ground-breaking research in particle and astrophysics to innovative studies in neuroscience, human health, energy modelling and beyond, UVic’s Arbutus Cloud has revolutionized how scientists process, share and store massive data sets.

From helping to convert seaweed overgrowth into benefits for the blue economy, to improving travel across sea ice, two ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø projects on Monday [eds note: June 3] received nearly $4 million in federal support to advance climate solutions.

From testing environmental stresses on plants to understanding mysteries of the universe, five ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø (UVic) research projects received infrastructure support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).

Globally renowned Indigenous art historian and curator Dr. Heather Igloliorte joins the ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø as the inaugural Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices. The $8-million research chair will advance reconciliation through the transformative power of art and innovative exhibition practices and support a new generation of students, researchers, educators, curators and artists to drive change through artistic practice.

If it wasn’t for a hurricane, the life of globally renowned Inuk and Nunatsiavut art historian and curator Dr. Heather Igloliorte would have taken an entirely different turn.

A global UVic research partnership will design and advance a sustainability framework to integrate Indigenous knowledge into sustainability projects.

As the world grapples with hot ocean temperatures, new UVic research shows marine heatwave coral impact is worse than we thought before.

UVic is 1st in Canada for climate action and in the global top 10 for impact, according to the 2023 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings. THE scores universities and colleges for how they are responding to UN goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure peace and prosperity.