May is Asian Heritage Month – an opportunity for UVic to showcase the stories, research, contributions and vital impact made by people of Asian descent on campus, in our communities and beyond. The following UVic experts are available to media to discuss topics of Asian heritage during Asian Heritage Month.
Read more: Experts on Asian Heritage Month
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
As ocean temperatures continue to rise due to climate change, marine plankton may be the newest candidate to act as an oceanic early alert system. According to a new Nature paper from UVic micropaleontologist Andy Fraass, and a team of international collaborators at the University of Bristol and Harvard University, an analysis of the fossil record shows that changes to community structure take place long before mass extinction occurs.
Read more: Marine fossil record reveals climate change insights
The following University of Victoria experts are available to media for comment about the federal budget, which is expected to be tabled on April 16.
Read more: Experts on 2024 federal budget
Twenty researchers, teachers and students are receiving University of Victoria’s REACH awards.
Read more: Recognizing research and teaching excellence
An international team of scientists led by astronomers at the University of Victoria has discovered an ancient group of stars orbiting our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The newly discovered satellite consists of only five dozen bright stars spread over a volume just 10 light years across. This is miniscule compared to the Milky Way, which contains over ten billion stars, and measures a hundred thousand light years in diameter.
Read more: Small, dark and ancient: Scientists discover a new (but old) Milky Way satellite
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.
Read more: World Water Day film screening
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
Open any astronomy textbook to the section on white dwarf stars and you’ll likely learn that they are “dead stars” that continuously cool down over time. New research published in Nature is challenging this theory, with the University of Victoria (UVic) and its partners using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite to reveal why a population of white dwarf stars stopped cooling for more than eight billion years.
Read more: Discovery tests theory on cooling of white dwarf stars
The following University of Victoria experts are available to the media to discuss International Women’s Day and research on gender and women’s issues.
Read more: Experts on International Women’s Day
UVic geographer Jutta Gutberlet is helping communities of waste pickers in Brazil improve their working conditions, form co-operatives and advance social movements.
Read more: Upcycling lives
UVic's Centre for Aerospace Research (CfAR) will be Bombardier's first academic partner on the sustainability-focused EcoJet Research Project.
Read more: Bombardier partners with UVic for sustainable aviation
UVic President’s Chair Nancy Clark has been working with Syrian men who have resettled in BC on a study that uses photography to explore the social determinants of Syrian men’s mental health.
Read more: Syrian men use photography to turn eye on mental health
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
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
Banting fellow, Andrea Mellor, looks to strengthen health and social systems by cultivating safer and non-judgemental spaces for marginalized youth.
Read more: Closing the service gap for youth