How much does alcohol cost? Think beyond the price of a bottle of wine; how many deaths per year are due to alcohol-related colon cancer? How about hospitalizations due to impaired driving accidents? To calculate these costs, PhD student Adam Sherk developed the International Model of Alcohol Harms and Policies, or InterMAHP.
Following in the footsteps of world-renowned ethnobotanist Nancy Turner, ethnobotany PhD candidate Fiona Hamersley Chambers has led environmental studies students across the campus since 1999, using it as a living classroom as they study the relationship between people and plants.
English students in a fifth-year digital literary studies course turned to literature and DIY culture for inspiration to create video games as part of their class. They created two indie games: a campus-based locative app for mobile phones and a 2-D children鈥檚 game.
For sharks, it鈥檚 more where they eat than what they eat. Thanks to a new study co-authored by UVic biologists Francis Juanes and Amy Teffer, it鈥檚 clear coastal sharks have very different feeding patterns than deeper ocean sharks and it could help overturn declines in the world鈥檚 shark populations.
Icebreaking in the Gulf of Bothnia
The Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance partnered with UVic conservation scientist Natalie Ban and colleagues on two recent publications on the status of two marine species. By interviewing Indigenous fishers, Ban and collaborators were able to fill in data gaps, with implications for research applicable to BC and elsewhere in the world.
Without Indigenous knowledge, the recent findings by conservation scientist Natalie Ban and her collaborators would not carry so stark a message about two culturally and ecologically important marine species鈥攖he Dungeness crab and yelloweye rockfish of BC鈥檚 central coast.
One could say that humanities graduate student Ildara Enr铆quez was born for her role as a linguistics researcher. Growing up on the Iberian Peninsula in the northwest region of Spain, Enriquez spoke her native language of Galician at home. At school, she conversed in Spanish.Both were official languages, but as a teenager, Enr铆quez made a decision.
What if you could experience the beauty of Sidney Spit without leaving your home? Geography PhD student Robert Newell has applied cutting-edge technology to develop a virtual reality experience that takes visitors on a tour of the park, over land and underwater, using visualization tools.
On Aug. 16, while visiting the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, UVic doctoral student Clare Higgs was involved in the observation of the first recorded gravitational wave signature caused by a neutron star collision.
UVic chemist Armita Dash is in Ottawa today to talk to parliamentarians and senior government officials about her innovative approach to early concussion diagnosis. Dash's research provides an early detection method of diagnosing concussion or traumatic brain injury through the use of nanotechnology.
A 番茄社区 doctoral student visiting an observatory in Chile unexpectedly became a participant in the observation of the first recorded gravitational wave signature caused by a neutron star collision 鈥� a discovery that is transformational to our understanding of the universe.
Forest fires in British Columbia. Floods in Quebec. Hurricanes in Texas. While it鈥檚 difficult to say definitively that such events are caused by climate change, there鈥檚 little doubt that a warming world exacerbates such extreme weather鈥攁nd that our society will need to be ready for more of them.
Recent research on team performance by Mike Szymanski, who earned his PhD this year from UVic's Sardul S. Gill Graduate School of Business, explores performance outcomes and the impact of bicultural team leaders. He shares insights from his recent study, as seen through the lens of international football.
A new research program led by marine ecologist John Volpe and grad student Stefania Gorgopa is a great opportunity for scuba divers to get involved as citizen scientists. The UVic researchers are turning to the local sport diving community for help conducting surveys of marine fish populations around Victoria and the Gulf Islands.
A UVic PhD candidate is garnering international headlines for work that throws cold water on a hot theory about a ninth planet. "It may well turn out that there is another planet out there, but in our survey we find no evidence requiring an extra planet in the outer solar system to explain what we鈥檙e seeing."
