May 5 is Red Dress Day, the national day of awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit people. Each year on this day, we wear red to honour our mothers, daughters, sisters, cousins, aunts, siblings and diversely gendered relatives and acknowledge the families and communities that have been impacted by the on-going crisis of MMIWG2S+.
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Climate displacement is underway, and scientists are starting to learn about these realities from those experiencing this first-hand. A delegation of young Inuvialuit leaders from Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, travelled more than 2,300 km to Victoria to meet with government scientists and detail what life is like living with the impacts of climate change and climate displacement on your doorstep.
Read more: Inuvialuit delegation shares climate change displacement with scientists
The University of Victoria (UVic) is welcoming investments to support Canadian research and innovation detailed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a campus visit on Friday that included meeting faculty and students whose research is transforming the lives of Canadians every day.
Read more: UVic welcomes 2024 budget’s research support during Trudeau visit
Indigenous student Ryder's journey to success at UVic, from financial concerns to empowerment, aided by supportive community and tailored scholarships.
Read more: Indigenous student success propelled by timely support
Critically acclaimed Canadian opera singer and national CBC Radio host Marion Newman is returning to the University of Victoria to join the award-winning teaching faculty at the School of Music. Newman—whose traditional name is Nege’ga—is of Kwagiulth and Stó:lō First Nations descent with English, Irish and Scottish heritage. The 2022 UVic Distinguished Alumni Award recipient will officially join the School of Music as an assistant professor on July 1, 2024.
Read more: Opera star Marion Newman joins UVic Music
The POLIS Project on Ecological Governance is hosting a film screening and conversation at the University of Victoria to showcase the importance of freshwater management and governance in celebration of World Water Day.
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From testing environmental stresses on plants to understanding mysteries of the universe, five University of Victoria (UVic) research projects received infrastructure support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
Read more: Innovative UVic research gets a boost
What does it mean to make space for Indigenous feminism? School of Indigenous Governance Associate Professor Gina Starblanket explores this question as editor of the third edition of the seminal series Making Space for Indigenous Feminism.
Read more: Making space for Indigenous feminism
An environmental problem-solver healing our dirt, an ocean engineer unlocking climate data and a grassroots activist are among this year’s 18 recipients.
Read more: 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients
Located on Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) territory, the National Centre for Indigenous Laws (NCIL) at UVic is still under construction but its architectural design is already winning awards.
Read more: UVic’s National Centre for Indigenous Laws wins prestigious design award
Cheryl Recollet, a Wiikwemkoong Unceded First Nation member, is exploring Anishinaabe governance and treaty relations in UVic's Indigenous Governance PhD program.
Read more: Enacting Indigenous governance
Canadian and European experts in polar observation are joining forces in a new partnership that will see Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) operating a subsea observatory at the Spanish Antarctic Station, providing year-round, near real-time data on ocean conditions there—the first time that ONC will extend its ocean monitoring outside Canadian waters.
Read more: Canada and Spain scientists establish new Antarctic Ocean observatory
Nicole York, a Vanier Scholar and PhD candidate, researches ankyrin-B's role in heart cell development, and a genetic variant affecting the Gitxsan First Nation.
Read more: Leading with the heart
Kim Senklip Harvey, an actor, director, TV writer, and Vanier Scholar from Syilx and Tsilhqot'in nations, empowers Indigenous communities through legal storytelling.
Read more: Weaving culture, law and storytelling into legal guardianship
Jamey Jesperson, a UVic History PhD candidate and Vanier Scholar, re-stories colonial histories through a trans anti-colonial perspective.
Read more: Re-storying colonial history through a trans anti-colonial lens
Morgan Mowatt, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at UVic, reshapes Indigenous-state dynamics, emphasizing Indigenous authority rooted in political thought and cultural re-storying.
Read more: Advocating for Indigenous sovereignty in state relations