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UVic’s first 3MT competition
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Research was efficiently communicated, cash was won and history was made at the university’s first-ever Three Minute Thesis competition, held on March 6 as part of UVic’s annual IdeaFest celebration. The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a research communication competition that challenges master’s and doctoral students to give a compelling and public-friendly presentation on their thesis research—and why it matters—in a mere three minutes using only one Powerpoint slide.
UVic Law wins 2014 Wilson Moot
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Congratulations to UVic’s Faculty of Law team for winning the 2014 Wilson Moot. Students Sarah Ahsan, Devon Black, Vivian Lee and Aislinn Sirk travelled to Toronto to represent UVic against 12 other Canadian law schools on February 21 and 22. It all…
Jen Wise recognized for playwriting
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In January, theatre historian Dr. Jennifer Wise’s play The Girl Rabbi of the Golden West was announced the winner of the 2013 Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition by the Miles Nadal Centre in Toronto. Her play depicts the amazing true story of how, in 1895, in Victoria, Miss Ray Frank became the first woman to serve as rabbi for an orthodox synagogue throughout the High Holidays.
UVic student wins 2014 Rhodes Scholarship
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British Columbia´s winner of the world´s oldest and most prestigious student scholarship for 2014 is a 21-year-old biochemistry student from the University of Victoria.
Music student wins CUMS competition
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Recent UVic School of Music graduate Robert Hansler has been announced as the co-winner of the Canadian University Music Society’s annual Student Composer Competition for his piece “Broken Branch.”
Cognilab beats out stiff competition
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Jos&e#180; Barrios, UVic psychology undergraduate, won first place this month in the Student StartUp Challenge for his research idea, Cognilab. Barrios and others founded the Canadian company with the objective to make academic research more accessible.
Belmore wins GG
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Rebecca Belmore, former Audain Professor for UVic’s Visual Arts department, was recently announced as the winner of the 2013 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. Belmore, the inaugural recipient of the Audain Professorship in Contemporary Art Practice of the Pacific Northwest back in 2010, has been challenging, confronting and engaging audiences with a variety of works representing the resistance of Indigenous peoples for 25 years now. Her award comes on the heels of news that 2012 Audain Professor Nicholas Galanin won both a $50,000 Rasmusin Fellowship and a separate $25,000 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship within three months of each other.
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