UVic alumna Sahar Sam鈥檚 started a cleantech company, Solaires Entreprises Inc., thanks to her PhD and postdoctoral studies at UVic, including the entrepreneurial and innovation opportunities the university provides.
Prestigious scholarship program celebrates 10 years of creating tomorrow鈥檚 tech innovators.
Like catching lightning in a jar, UVic astronomer Ruobing Dong with international team uncover first evidence of a stellar intruder object, or flyby, disturbing a protoplanetary disk the birthplace of planets.
Newly discovered star cluster opens a unique window into galaxy formation from ancient times and challenges longstanding theories, thanks to international collaboration.
In learning how nations and citizens commemorate history, we can reflect on the political use鈥攁nd manipulation鈥攐f collective memory, say UVic researchers Oliver and Beate Schmidtke.
Grads at UBC's fall convocation ceremonies will wear 600 gowns borrowed from the 番茄社区, as part of a collaborative effort across multiple BC universities to provide ceremonial caps and gowns after the disruptive BC storm.
The Students鈥� Dialogue on Democratic Engagement aims to impart the knowledge and skills to support democratic citizenship in future generations. The project received the IAP2 Canada Core Values Award for Extending the Practice through Creativity, Contribution and Innovation in the Field, presented at a virtual celebration Sept. 13, 2021.
Eight UVic researchers in the fields of science, social sciences, engineering, and humanities have been recognized by the Royal Society of Canada, the country鈥檚 highest academic honour.
Six UVic researchers in the fields of science, social sciences, engineering, and humanities have been elected to the Royal Society of Canada, the country鈥檚 highest academic honour.
A global research project led by UVic brings together nine organizations plus scholars from 16 universities in 15 countries to explore the changing nature of borders鈥攔eal, remote and virtual.
CAMTEC is expanding to establish a biosafety facility with new, cutting-edge equipment previously unavailable on Vancouver Island and infrastructure upgrades that will triple their research capacity.
Classicist Brendan Burke is now appointed in Athens to the most significant position in his field for North America at one of the oldest and largest overseas research centres in the world.
The origin of planets hides in the dust and gas surrounding a newborn star. However, a direct link between these so-called protoplanetary disks and exoplanets was hard to identify鈥攗ntil now.
UVic linguist Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins has spent her career in collaborative, community-based work in Indigenous language revitalization with Salish communities, effecting lasting change in the field of linguistics in the process. She has been honoured with the 2021 Paz Buttedahl Career Achievement Award from the Confederation of University Faculty Associations of BC (CUFA-BC).
A cohort of Tsuut鈥檌na language teachers are receiving their Certificates in Indigenous Language Revitalization through a unique partnership with the First Nation's Tsuut鈥檌na Gunaha Institute.
President Kevin Hall comments on the need for UVic to address its role in perpetuating colonial systems and violence inflicted on Indigenous people by exploring its historic partnerships and relationships.
