UVic scholar and UNESCO Co-Chair Budd Hall helps propel community-based research across Canada and around the world. On May 6, he received a prestigious national award for his years of service.
UVic scholar and UNESCO Co-Chair Budd Hall helps propel community-based research across Canada and around the world. He answers some questions on winning a prestigious national award and about the importance of community-university engagement.
UVic is one of the world鈥檚 leading universities in addressing the most urgent problems of humanity, according to rankings released today by Times Higher Education's Impact Rankings, which measure how university research, stewardship, outreach and teaching advance efforts to meet 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
An international partnership between UVic, the University of Waterloo and two European institutions is being celebrated this year for its game-changing hybrid exchange program.
The UVic Research Accelerator Fund empowers world-class researchers to respond to the urgent needs of communities by rapidly advancing COVID-19 resilience and recovery efforts, and overcome future challenges through research expertise, partnerships and infrastructure.
Donor funding expands a lab鈥檚 research, and teaching and outreach programs in community-driven applied conservation science.
A global impact ranking released today by Times Higher Education (THE) evaluating universities鈥� global contributions towards meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) puts UVic among the world鈥檚 top tier of leaders in climate action, and among the world鈥檚 top 100 institutions overall in contributing to a sustainable future for the planet. THE ranked UVic fourth among the world鈥檚 universities for climate action鈥攎eaning research and action taken to understand and respond to the global challenge of climate change.
Three delegates from UVic landed in India just ahead of the 150th anniversary of Gandhi鈥檚 birth for an international symposium organized by UVic鈥檚 Budd Hall and UNESCO co-chair Rajesh Tandon to explore concepts of community-based research in the context of Gandhian principles.
Researchers from Canada and the US want to de-escalate the devastating forest wildfires that are increasingly occurring due to climate change, while strengthening development of a forest-based bioeconomy, and boosting carbon uptake. These goals are part of a $1 milion, four-year PICS Theme Partnership project.
The Digital Technology Supercluster is funding the Fresh Water Data Commons project, involving biochemist Caren Helbing, and the Women's Entrepreneurship Program鈥攁 first of its kind for UVic鈥攐verseen by Jerome Etwaroo of UVic's Coast Capital Savings Innovation Centre.
UVic professor of organic chemistry Jeremy Wulff鈥檚 research team led the design of the new class of cross-linking materials in research that appears in the journal Science. Together, UVic and UBC Okanagan researchers discovered a broadly applicable method of bonding plastics and synthetic fibres at the molecular level.
Chemistry students at the 番茄社区 can now take part in an international program with Denmark-based pharmaceutical company LEO Pharma A/S that will provide them with hands-on learning during their academic course work.
Scientists now know that for Earth to stay within the temperature increase limit set by the Paris Agreement, negative emission technologies, which remove and permanently sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, are essential. The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions is bringing together an international team of experts to take on this challenge in a new four-year feasibility study.
Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions funds new $1.5M international research project. The global team of scientists, engineers and social scientists plan to turn the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into rock permanently beneath the Earth's ocean floor
Cultural exchange is a core component of the program at UVic鈥檚 English Language Centre. A simple request for "something more"鈥攕uggested by the Department of Education in the state of Veracruz, Mexico鈥攃reated what has become an invaluable opportunity for Indigenous-international collaboration and dynamic learning at UVic.
President Jamie Cassels and Carolyn Russell, UVic鈥檚 director of student recruitment and global engagement, arrived in Beijing in December 2018 to explore the renewal of the university鈥檚 agreement of cooperation with the China Scholarship Council.
