From physical and mental health to alcohol and substance use, UVic researchers are working to understand and improve the mental well-being of communities in Canada during
COVID-19.
From physical and mental health to alcohol and substance use, University of Victoria researchers are working with a global team of scientists to understand and improve the mental
well-being of communities in Canada during COVID-19.
Political scientist Claire Cutler shines a light on the complexities and corruption of PPE procurement in a fractured market with countries around the world competing for medical
supplies in this time of COVID-19.
Paul Whitinui (School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education) is an Indigenous Māori scholar from Aotearoa New Zealand and is available to media to discuss this week’s
announcements that the Washington Redskins and the Saanich Braves, under increasing public and financial pressure, will change their nicknames.
How communities emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic with health and well-being intact is a key question for a University of Victoria researcher, who is studying ways isolation has
impacted gay, bisexual, queer, trans and Two Spirit (GBQT2+) men in Canada.
How communities emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic with health and well-being intact is a key question for a University of Victoria researcher, who is studying ways isolation has
impacted gay, bisexual, queer, trans and Two Spirit (GBQT2+) men in Canada.
Elin Kelsey, adjunct professor of environmental studies at UVic, is available to media to discuss World Oceans Day and #oceanoptimism, the mass movement to crowd-source ocean
conservation solutions
During BC Seniors’ Week, psychologist Stuart MacDonald is available to media to discuss the risks of social isolation on seniors, a demographic being disproportionately affected by
the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 crisis has shown that pandemics belong as much to the present as the past. From Ebola to HIV/AIDs to Zika, University of Victoria historian Mitchell Hammond says
disease has played an increasingly significant role in global affairs in recent decades. Hammond shares what we can learn from the pandemics of the past.
In order to measure the effectiveness of physical-distancing strategies on COVID-19, we must turn to mathematical and computer simulation models like the ones being developed by
University of Victoria statistical mathematician Junling Ma.
UVic biochemist and microbiologist John Burke is taking a different pathway in his cancer research by exploring at the molecular level how our immune system can help fight and
treat the disease, thanks to a $956,250 Project Grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
The federal government is failing to meaningfully engage with Indigenous knowledge in environmental decision-making, setting the stage for more conflict over pipelines, two
University of Victoria researchers say.
Scientists from Canada, the United States and Denmark have captured the clearest image known of a cluster of galaxies from 10 billion years ago in cosmic history. The discovery,
published in Nature, provides clues the universe was more evolved than previously thought.