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Almost a decade ago, XEM纽OLTW瘫 Nick Claxton told his family he wanted to revitalize the reef net fishery, a fishing practice unique to the Straits Salish people and banned by the colonial government 100 years ago. His uncle advised: 鈥淵ou can鈥檛 just go fishing. You must first build a ceremonial net.鈥� And so began the spiritual, cultural and educational journey that Claxton considers his life鈥檚 work. It also became his PhD dissertation in curriculum and instruction at the 番茄社区鈥攁 research study designed to revitalize the knowledge, ceremony and practice that was nearly lost.

The tension in the operating room was palpable as the patient鈥檚 heart rate skyrocketed unexpectedly during surgery on her fractured ankle. Julie, the 19-year-old soccer player under local anaesthetic, worriedly asked what was wrong. The medical and nursing team reassured her as they quickly assessed and took action to stabilize her condition. Despite its location in the Royal Jubilee Hospital, this was not a typical operating room. Nor was Julie a typical patient; she鈥檚 actually a life-like mannequin. Both are part of the new $2.9-million Centre for Interprofessional Clinical Simulation Learning, a partnership between UVic鈥檚 School of Nursing, UBC鈥檚 Faculty of Medicine and Island Health.

番茄社区 neuroscientist E. Paul Zehr remembers the precise moment when his research career shifted gears and science communications became a major part of his activities as a scholar and academic. 鈥淚t was a Friday afternoon in 2007 and I was searching Google Scholar for publication information on one of my papers,鈥� he recalls. He was pondering how many people his work actually affected. His most cited paper at the time had about 150 citations. But what if that meant only 150 people had read it? Was that acceptable impact? 鈥淔or me, the answer was no,鈥� he says. 鈥淚 decided then and there that I wasn鈥檛 satisfied with standard measures of academic productivity and impact and instead wanted to reach larger groups more directly.鈥�

Call it learning 360. When writing professor Maureen Bradley teaches digital media for storytellers, her venue is a departure from the typical university lecture hall: no podium, desk seating or front of the classroom. Instead, tables with roller-wheel chairs line the room, with a multi-media teaching island in the centre. Each table serves as a five-student pod, equipped with a 48-inch wireless video screen, audio speakers, laptop plug-ins and writable white board. Bradley displays video or broadcasts audio to any or all dozen screens in the room, or shows individual or group projects to every screen.

The UVic Faculty of Education is celebrating 100 years of preparing educators in Victoria with a range of events that began with a forum and celebratory dinner on Oct. 3.聽

Popular culture steps into the spotlight with 2016 Southam Lecturer When it comes to writing about popular culture, Carl Wilson鈥檚 heart will always go on. That鈥檚 partly because, as a music critic for Slate and Billboard magazines, Wilson is deeply passionate about the impact music can have on everyone鈥檚 lives; but it鈥檚 also because his book about C&e#180;lineDion struck a chord that rivaled the power of love.聽

A new web resource, Perpetual Salish: Coast Salish Art in the Classroom, launched by the 番茄社区鈥檚 Legacy Art Galleries offers cross-curricular lesson plans to elementary school teachers and engages students with valuable lessons abou鈥�

Need proof of the impact of the Department of Writing鈥榮 film production courses? Just look to last month鈥檚 2015 Leo Award nominations, where films by writing faculty and alumni received a combined 26 nominations for five productions鈥攁n impressive number for a university that doesn鈥檛 technically even have a film production program.

Two outstanding classroom leaders who are known for their dedication and innovation to the teaching process have been given Alumni Awards for Excellence in Teaching.

Dr. Bonnie Leadbeater (psychology) and Dr. Anne Marshall (education) have been named the 2015 recipients of the Provost鈥檚 Engaged Scholar Award.

The summer of 2014 was a remarkable period in Canadian legal history. Within the span of three weeks, two Supreme Court of Canada judgments involving aboriginal title and treaty rights were brought down. Together, they significantly altered fundamental elements of national governance and current plans for economic development, as well as the legal landscape relating to land and resource entitlements.

Canadian drama instructors gather at UVic to make sure they're giving students far more than just their next few lines. If you鈥檝e ever seen actors at work鈥攐n stage, on screen, on the street or on television鈥攜ou鈥檝e seen the results of the kind of pedagogy happening daily in the Department of Theatre. But now a first-of-its-kind national symposium co-organized by theatre professor Conrad Alexandrowicz is questioning and examining traditional acting methods, as it addresses what鈥檚 been described as 鈥渢he crisis of actor training in Canada.鈥�

Child and Youth Care professor Jin-Sun Yoon wins prestigious national teaching award. 鈥淚鈥檓 an accidental academic; I never planned to be here,鈥� says Jin-Sun Yoon, teaching professor with the 番茄社区鈥檚 School of Child and Youth Care (CYC). Yoon's path to professorship has been paved with the same whole-person commitment that has led her to become recognized for her transformative teaching career鈥攕elected as one of 10 university educators across Canada to receive this year鈥檚 prestigious 3M National Teaching Fellowship.

Teaching professor Jin-Sun Yoon in the 番茄社区鈥檚 School of Child and Youth Care has been recognized for her exceptional teaching and educational leadership with the 2015 3M National Teaching Fellowship.

A pioneering teaching professor from UVic鈥檚 Gustavson School of Business, Dr. Brent Mainprize, has won the national 2014 Desire2Learn Innovation in Teaching and Learning award for his fresh ideas in curriculum development and delivery. Mainprize鈥檚 c鈥�

Alumni Week鈥攈onouring the social, economic and artistic impact of UVic graduates鈥攔uns from Feb. 2鈥�8 with more than a dozen special events on campus and at alumni branches across Canada and in Asia.