News and announcements

A team of Astronomy Research Centre researchers, led by University of Victoria PhD candidate Dori Blakely, have used the James Webb Space Telescope to capture an unprecedented look at planet formation.

“We have, for the first time, found definitive evidence that the gravitational instability pathway can happen.” – Jessica Speedie (UVic Graduate Student)

UVic’s Rogério de Sousa, Irina Paci and Tao Lu have assembled a pan-Canadian all-star team of quantum experts. Eleven researchers from six universities and four industry partners have a plan to make quantum processing scalable and commercially viable.

Hosted by the University of Victoria and governed by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, Arbutus is Canada's largest academic research cloud computing site, uniquely dedicated to cloud resources, allowing researchers nationwide to process, share, and store data.

The Canadian Nuclear Physics for Astrophysics Network held its Annual Meeting 2024 this month at TRIUMF in Vancouver. The three-day meeting fostered international multidisciplinary collaboration, with the first day dedicated to student and postdoc research presentations, professional development, and community building.

Two of our very own Department of Physics and Astronomy professors are 2023 REACH Award winners: Dr. Julio Navarro - David H. Turpin Gold Medal for Career Achievement in Research Dr. Andrew Macrae - Gillian Sherwin Alumni Award - Excellence in Teaching

World Health Day, celebrated every year on April 7, is a global health awareness day that aims to raise awareness around various health issues. Here in the Faculty of Science, we’re working some of those issues every day. Our researchers are developing new therapeutics and treatments for diseases, uncovering the molecular mechanisms by which viruses and bacteria are operating, evaluating the effectiveness of public health interventions, uncovering the physiology of diseases and much more. This World Health Day, explore some of the health-related research happening in our Faculty, across five of our six departments.

Mark Hartz and Dean Karlen receive a second round of CFI funding ($6.3M) for constructing and installing precision calibration systems in the Hyper-K particle detector under construction near Kamioka, Japan and to ensure the accuracy of the measurements performed by the Hyper-K instruments.