Scott Kouri walks the convocation stage for the third time in 10 years in November 2019 and odds are he will embrace his grand finish as he would a new beginning.
The Palliative Outreach Resource Team is built upon lessons learned from a three-year study led by UVic palliative care researcher Kelli Stajduhar, lead investigator of the Equity
in Palliative Approaches to Care program.
Canada’s National Dementia Strategy, the long-awaited blueprint for finding a cure and for reshaping policy, was released last week.
When the BC government began opening overdose prevention sites (OPS) across the province two years ago, it was an unprecedented response to the overdose crisis. Unlike supervised
consumption sites (SCS), which were subject to lengthy (and often onerous) approval processes, OPS were rolled out quickly and led by community members on the front lines of the public-health
emergency.
UVic social work student Santanna Hernandez's path to university was full of twists and turns—much like the Columbia River cutting through her hometown of Trail, BC. Now a mother
of four, Hernandez will graduate from UVic in 2019 and is currently applying to medical schools.
Cindy Blackstock will present "Spirit Bear's Guide to Reconciliation" at UVic's First Peoples House on Nov. 14. On Nov. 13, as part of Fall Convocation, UVic will acknowledge
Blackstock for her many achievements, presenting her and Spirit Bear with honorary degrees.
Sabrina Curtis graduates this spring with an online Graduate Diploma in Evaluation through the School of Public Administration. As the director of planning and evaluation for the
Columbia Basin Trust. Curtis is applying her learning directly to her complex work of measuring the performance of many diverse community programs and strategic initiatives supported by the
trust.
Three members of the UVic community are recognized as campus leaders in the second annual Provost’s Advocacy and Activism awards, acknowledging individuals who address systemic or
institutionalized barriers, as champions for others. Recipients include Karen Lithgow, Hannah Charnock and Bruce Wallace.
The practice of providing alcohol to people with severe alcohol dependence is a complex and sometimes controversial approach to harm-reduction. For the first time, a peer-reviewed
journal has compiled the largest collection of peer-reviewed articles on these managed alcohol programs, led by UVic's Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research.
UVic and UNESCO are working together to create and deliver community-based research training to tackle local and global health and education needs. The initiative is being led by
Budd Hall, professor of community development in UVic's School of Public Administration, and Rajesh Tandon, founding president of Participatory Research in Asia.