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Grieving orca highlights plight of endangered whales

UVic historian Jason Colby is a specialist on the history of people and marine mammals in the Pacific Northwest and is available to offer media an expert perspective on the crisis facing the endangered southern resident killer whale population, with the recent loss of the J-pod calf.

Efforts by UVic geographer Dr. David Chuenyan Lai directly resulted in Victoria’s Chinatown being restored and celebrated, rather than demolished.

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.

What compels someone to study art history? It could be a passion for the life and work of a certain artist, like Frida Kahlo, or a fascination with a specific period of visual history, like the Renaissance. But for Josie Greenhill, graduating this month with a BA Honours in Art History and Visual Studies (AHVS), her inspiration came from a movie about Jack and Rose.

Astronomers and educators from across the country are in Victoria to discuss astronomical research in Canada, including Indigenous knowledge of astronomy.

This May, the second annual REACH Awards will celebrate UVic scientists, scholars and artists for their extraordinary contributions in research and teaching—from a field school in Cuba to a performance atop a glacier in BC's interior.

Earliest Known Human Footprints in North America

Two sets of events in March promise emboldened dialogue, action, reflection and creativity building on decades of inspirational work by early pioneers, educators, advocates, academics, artists and allies to maintain a safer and more just world for trans, non-binary and Two-Spirit people.

The forgotten Swiss diplomat who rescued thousands from Holocaust

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A UVic historian's research on the efforts of Switzerland’s forgotten Schindler—a diplomat named Carl Lutz—will be presented Nov. 27 in Switzerland at the world’s premier gathering for Holocaust remembrance and education. Charlotte Schallié's findings include 36 harrowing stories of survival.

A mother-daughter team has played a key role in bringing the stories of Budapest Holocaust survivors and the heroic work of Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz to light, in new research by Charlotte Schallié.

This fall, UVic students are making noise again at the Royal British Columbia Museum. Thirty-nine students in Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier's third-year anthropology course are working with museum learning program developers to create soundscapes that will bring sonic life to many objects on exhibit.

Long-lost letters from interned Japanese-Canadians