A professor of entrepreneurship who has helped boost the number of Indigenous-owned businesses across BC and a professor of Indigenous education who has made significant advancements in the indigenization of curriculum for BC students are the 13th and 14th 番茄社区 scholars recognized with Canada鈥檚 most prestigious award for excellence in leadership and teaching.
Writing grad parlays a passion for storytelling into helping others unlock their creativity.
If you can find an efficient way to alter the chemical makeup of a surface then you can potentially enable a wide range of applications鈥攆rom designing electrodes for powerful sensors to accessing improved ways to harvest energy for more efficient solar panels.
Times Higher Education has released its 2020 world university rankings by subject for physical sciences and psychology, placing UVic programs in these areas among the Top 200 around the globe. These are in addition to previously announced Top-300 rankings for UVic in arts and humanities, computer science, and engineering and technology.
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.
On Oct. 10, the third annual REACH Awards will celebrate UVic scholars for their extraordinary contributions in research and teaching.
Four 番茄社区 researchers in the fields of social sciences and humanities are recognized with Canada's highest academic honour.
Four 番茄社区 researchers in the fields of social sciences and humanities have been elected to the Royal Society of Canada.
At a ceremony in the First Peoples House Ceremonial Hall, several Indigenous faculty asked permission to work in the traditional territory of the Esquimalt and Songhees peoples.
Bernadette Perry, a PhD student in French, has spent hundreds of hours honing Explorez, her new French-language video game that helps students reinforce their language skills while exploring the UVic campus.
A cluster of rare pink star-shaped blossoms will soon be blooming in UVic鈥檚 David Turpin Native Plant garden鈥� planted earlier this spring by ethnobotanist Fiona Hamersley Chambers and her environmental studies students. The Pink Sand Verbena, a federally red-listed endangered species, was considered extinct in Canada until it was rediscovered in 2000 along a beach on the BC West Coast Trail.
UVic鈥檚 scientific diving program has given three decades of students the tools, training and hands-on learning they need to safely and successfully conduct research under water.
For Dominique Rochefort, a citizen of the M茅tis Nation, the journey to become an empowered teacher was mined with self-doubts and life challenges. Rochefort graduates with a UVic BEd in elementary teacher education鈥攁nd will receive a Maxwell Cameron award from the BC Teachers鈥� Federation for the outstanding quality of her practice teaching, her top GPA and engagement in social justice.
New book gathers expertise of UVic field school instructors to learn from鈥攁nd extend鈥攐ff-campus teaching opportunities
How does one 鈥渟peak back鈥� to violence experienced by Indigenous girls, young women, two-spirit youth, even whole communities impacted from centuries of oppression? This question frames the work of Sisters Rising, an Indigenous-led, community-based research project that honours Indigenous youth who have experienced sexualized, gender-based violence by offering traditional land- and arts-based teachings.
Over the course of their careers, health geographer Denise Cloutier and business professor Brent Mainprize have been deeply engaged with communities鈥攃reating better lives for older adults and Indigenous youth across British Columbia. As the 2019 recipients of the Provost鈥檚 Engaged Scholar Award, Cloutier and Mainprize鈥檚 commitment to healthy aging and Indigenous peoples will be celebrated during Ideafest.
