The following UVic experts are available to media to discuss environmental and climate change topics ahead of Earth Day (April 22).

Rachel Friedman, a Banting fellow, investigates policies to mitigate environmental impacts of global food chains, connecting consumer choices to sustainability.

Islamic finance provides an alternative to debt-based systems

Stacey Fitzsimmons discusses how employers can support refugee employees to thrive at work, as published in the Conversation Canada.

This August, UVic and the Senate of Canada are co-hosting an international forum seeking solutions and strategies for an increasingly polarized world. Bridging Divides: Turf, Truth and Trust is a free event happening between Aug. 28-30.

UVic Libraries’ Associate University Librarian Reconciliation Ry Moran has been appointed to a new federal leadership circle designed to guide and support Indigenous research in Canada. Librarian Pia Russell has also received two awards from the British Columbia Library Association for her work on the BC Historical Textbooks Project. CAPI director Victor V. Ramraj has also been appointed to a new federal Indo-Pacific advisory committee.

The supply chain as a determinant of health

A global research project led by UVic brings together nine organizations plus scholars from 16 universities in 15 countries to explore the changing nature of borders—real, remote and virtual.

A passion for music and computers inspired Professor George Tzanetakis to transform his popular UVic course for a global platform so it could reach an unlimited audience.

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.

President Jamie Cassels and Carolyn Russell, UVic’s director of student recruitment and global engagement, arrived in Beijing in December 2018 to explore the renewal of the university’s agreement of cooperation with the China Scholarship Council.

One year after the launch of the International Plan, a UVic delegation led by President Jamie Cassels departs Oct. 10 for Vietnam and China. The official visit to Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Shanghai will help accelerate the momentum of internationalization at UVic and deepen our connections in Asia.

Internationally recognized composer and UVic music professor Dániel Péter Biró can now add one of North America's most prestigious awards to his list of honours—the Guggenheim Fellowship. He'll be using the one-year award worth $50,000 US to reflect on one of the most important issues of today: global migration.

An international conference taking place mid May at UVic for the first time on the west coast of Canada will focus on global displacement and forced migration, closely exploring issues and experiences about one of the most pressing global issues of our time.

Internationally recognized composer and University of Victoria music professor Dániel Péter Biró can now add one of North America's most prestigious awards to his list of honours—the Guggenheim Fellowship. And he'll be using the one-year award worth $50,000 US to reflect on one of the most important issues of today: global migration.

A new documentary, The Thinking Garden, about a unique farming collective in a small South African village carries lessons of hope and resilience. It was written and produced by UVic scholars Christine Welsh and Elizabeth Vibert and it officially launches on March 1.