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Business grad beats the odds
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Siyad Jama's journey to a BCom degree at UVic's Gustavson School of Business began when he stepped off the plane in Victoria for the first time in 2011. "I had no idea what to expect," he recalls. "It was all new to me—Canada, Victoria, UVic. I knew it was the warmest place in Canada, but coming from Kenya, even that meant something different."
New "2+2" international degree program in economics
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Students study abroad for all sorts of reasons—to gain cultural experiences or expand their personal views, for instance—and for some it will be to study economics at UVic. The new agreement allows Soochow University students who complete two years of study in Suzhou and then transfer to UVic’s economics program for the remaining two years to receive a double degree in economics from both Soochow University and UVic. This is the third “2+2” agreement between UVic and Soochow University; the first is in business, the second in chemistry.
Partnership with Soochow University
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Two weeks after launching its new International Plan, UVic strengthened its relationship with Soochow University with the signing of a third partnership agreement, to welcome 100 students every year from the university located in Victoria's Twin City Suzhou to study economics at UVic.
Regional economic development
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On Saturday, Nov. 7, UVic President Jamie Cassels will act as a moderator for a meeting convened by the Greater Victoria Development Agency and stakeholders to propose and discuss a new approach to regional economic development for Southern Vancouve…
Giles named Distinguished Fellow
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Dr. David Giles (economics) was recently named a Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists. The award was made at the 2014 Conference of the Association, in Auckland, New Zealand, where Giles also presented the invited A.W.H. Phillips Memorial Lecture. Dr. Giles is only the 13th economist to be named a Distinguished Fellow of the NZAE in its 55-year history.
Safe drinking water
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“Water is a natural resource essential for life,” says Moussa Traore, an economics student in the Faculty of Social Sciences who receives his BSc from UVic this month. Traore arrived in Montreal seven years ago—leaving his home in Burkina Faso, Africa, a landlocked country that has endured a series of droughts and military coups over the past few decades.
Reseeding a way of life in Iraq
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A great swath of marshland once carpeted the south of Iraq for thousands of miles. Beginning in 1989, most of this exceptional ecosystem was drained under Saddam Hussein’s regime. Now, while news headlines spell out stories related to other regions of Iraq, two researchers at the University of Victoria and an expert at the Fraser Basin Council are helping to frame a new way of life for the people of the southern Iraqi marshes.
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