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Indigenous
Red Dress Day
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+.
Delegation shares climate change displacement
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.
UVic welcomes 2024 budget’s research support
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.
Supporting Indigenous student success
Indigenous student Ryder's journey to success at UVic, from financial concerns to empowerment, aided by supportive community and tailored scholarships.
Opera star Marion Newman joins UVic Music
Media release
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.
World Water Day
Media release
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.
UVic research gets infrastructure support
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).
Making space for Indigenous feminism
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.
2024 Distinguished Alumni Awards
The Ring
An environmental problem-solver healing our dirt, an ocean engineer unlocking climate data and a grassroots activist are among this year’s 18 recipients.
UVic’s NCIL wins prestigious design award
Media release
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.
Enacting Indigenous governance
Cheryl Recollet, a Wiikwemkoong Unceded First Nation member, is exploring Anishinaabe governance and treaty relations in UVic's Indigenous Governance PhD program.
ONC Antarctic
Media release
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.
Leading with the heart
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.
Weaving culture, law and storytelling
Kim Senklip Harvey, an actor, director, TV writer, and Vanier Scholar from Syilx and Tsilhqot'in nations, empowers Indigenous communities through legal storytelling.
Re-storying colonial histories with a trans lens
Jamey Jesperson, a UVic History PhD candidate and Vanier Scholar, re-stories colonial histories through a trans anti-colonial perspective.
Indigenous sovereignty in state relations
Morgan Mowatt, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at UVic, reshapes Indigenous-state dynamics, emphasizing Indigenous authority rooted in political thought and cultural
re-storying.