A network of artisans is the fabric of business for Dara Jarallah, a Master of Global Business student (pictured above), who launched her social start-up Shoppinglee two years ago and is currently completing a co-op term in Jordan.
A nationally recognized scholar, UVic sociologist Cecilia Benoit has illuminated the need for equitable treatment of marginalized populations, especially women, for more than 25 years. To support this important work, the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation has awarded Benoit a $225,000 fellowship over the next three years.
"Voices in Motion" is an intergenerational community choir for persons with dementia, their family caregivers and high school students. It's also a UVic research study looking into how participation in an intergenerational choir might foster social engagement and caregiver well-being, improve quality of life for persons with dementia, and reduce some of the stigma surrounding memory loss.
Dr. Rick Cotton's research shows how extraordinary results, such as Olympic podium success, can come from the confluence of human capital, social capital and positive psychological capital. You only have to look at Trøndelag, Norway, to understand why.
Ariel Mishkin entered Gustavson five years ago with the conviction that her place was in the international community, despite previously having limited opportunity to travel. Since then, she's worked in Mongolia, Poland and India, studied at Poland's Kozminski University, travelled the Trans-Siberian Railroad, tried her hand at Mongolian throat singing, pursued her love of photography, won five scholarship awards, and kept up an A average while doing it.
Recognized by Status of Women Canada for her work in gender equality, Dr. Cecilia Benoit has devoted 25 years as a researcher to advancing the social rights of marginalized populations, especially women. On October 18, Benoit and five other women were recognized with the Governor General’s Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case.
The newly released Let’s Face It 2.0, a scrapbook app developed by the University of Victoria’s Centre for Autism Research Technology Education (CARTE) and now available free on iTunes, is a powerful educational tool for learning faces and recognizing emotions of the important people in the lives of children on the autism spectrum. “It is a selfie culture and I hope our app will be adopted by anyone who finds it useful,” says CARTE director and UVic psychology professor Jim Tanaka. “Parents and educators can create their own storybook from people and objects in their children’s lives.”
The newly released Let’s Face It 2.0, a scrapbook app developed by the University of Victoria’s Centre for Autism Research Technology Education (CARTE) and now available free on iTunes, is a powerful educational tool for learning faces and recognizi…
The federal government’s Canada Research Chairs Program (CRCP) has again recognized UVic for exceeding its equity targets in three designated groups. In 2015, of our 30 research chairholders, 30 per cent were women, 23 per cent were visible minorities and 3 per cent were Aboriginal people.
Social work professor Bruce Wallace, with the UVic Faculty of Human and Social Development, is the recent recipient of a BC Dental Association award of merit. Also a researcher and advocate, Wallace has invested the lion’s share of his academic career to improving access to dental care for those with low or no incomes.
Child and Youth Care professor Jin-Sun Yoon wins prestigious national teaching award. “I’m an accidental academic; I never planned to be here,” says Jin-Sun Yoon, teaching professor with the University of Victoria’s School of Child and Youth Care (CYC). Yoon's path to professorship has been paved with the same whole-person commitment that has led her to become recognized for her transformative teaching career—selected as one of 10 university educators across Canada to receive this year’s prestigious 3M National Teaching Fellowship.
Watch for the new Convocation Photo Booth all during convocation week, located near the west entrance to the McKinnon Building (the temporary site of post-convocation receptions). Members of the UVic Student Ambassadors will be on hand to help grads…
Entrepreneurs at the University of Victoria, whether they have an idea for a business, non-profit venture or social innovation, now have the resources and support of the Innovation Centre for Entrepreneurs (ICE) to help realize their vision.
The nearly 3 billion hours per week spent playing video games across the world could be put to much better use—at least that’s the notion that was up for debate and discussion at IdeaFest’s Games Without Frontiers: The Social Power of Video Games symposium on March 9.
There is an unequal distribution of health both within countries and cities. In the upcoming lecture for UVic’s long-running City Talks lecture series, Sharon Friel of Australian National University will argue that urgent action in governance, urban…
A generous donation of $500,000 from Vancouver-based resource firm Goldcorp Inc. to UVic’s Peter B. Gustavson School of Business will help support new initiatives at the school's Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation (CSSI).
