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The University of Victoria has received provincial funding for its Experimental Ocean Climate Change Lab (EXCEL) to research the impact of marine climate change. (Photo courtesy of UVic)

B.C. funding will help UVic study impacts of marine climate change

Provincial infusion will help new lab see which B.C. coastal ecosystems sensitive to changes

The University of Victoria has received provincial funding for its Experimental Ocean Climate Change Lab (EXCEL) to research the impact of marine climate change. (Photo courtesy of UVic)
UVic students Eva Dillon and Abigail Stephen have lived in five different houses during the last two years and are searching for long-term options. (Natasha Baldin/News Staff)

Students stuck amid soaring Greater Victoria rents as return to campus looms

Competition fierce for all kinds of housing

UVic students Eva Dillon and Abigail Stephen have lived in five different houses during the last two years and are searching for long-term options. (Natasha Baldin/News Staff)
Trinity Kettyls and Mackenzie Rigg at James Houlihan Park in Gordon Head during a Vikes Kick Cancer event. Rigg later died of brain cancer. (Armando Tura Photo)

Parents donate $100K to UVic in memory of son who died of cancer

UVic men’s soccer player Mackenzie Rigg died in 2022

Trinity Kettyls and Mackenzie Rigg at James Houlihan Park in Gordon Head during a Vikes Kick Cancer event. Rigg later died of brain cancer. (Armando Tura Photo)
Pictured is Suncor’s base plant with upgraders in the oil sands in Fort McMurray, Alta. A new study finds equity ownership in Canada’s five largest fossil fuel companies is becoming increasingly concentrated. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

UVic helps find Canadian fossil fuel financiers not pushing low-carbon shift

Increasingly foreign stakeholders hold considerable leverage on Canada’s biggest companies

Pictured is Suncor’s base plant with upgraders in the oil sands in Fort McMurray, Alta. A new study finds equity ownership in Canada’s five largest fossil fuel companies is becoming increasingly concentrated. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Bryson Robertson, a former UVic researcher, leads a team at Oregon State University that’s advancing offshore wind and wave energy. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)

Former UVic engineer advancing offshore renewables south of the border

Bryson Roberston sees a growing role for offshore wind and wave energy on the west coast

Bryson Robertson, a former UVic researcher, leads a team at Oregon State University that’s advancing offshore wind and wave energy. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)
This 2011 photo of the underwater basalt field located in the Endeavour area of the Cascadia Basin, located about 200 kilometres off the west coast of Vancouver Island, could soon be the site where carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is stored. (Courtesy of Ocean Networks Canada/CSSF-ROPOS)

Likely no earthquake risk from storing CO2 under ocean off Vancouver Island

Project looks to pump massive amounts of captured emissions into ocean crust

This 2011 photo of the underwater basalt field located in the Endeavour area of the Cascadia Basin, located about 200 kilometres off the west coast of Vancouver Island, could soon be the site where carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is stored. (Courtesy of Ocean Networks Canada/CSSF-ROPOS)
Conseil Scolaire Francophone (CSF) teacher in Whistler reading to students. (Courtesy of CSF via UVic)

UVic develops program to combat Greater Victoria French teacher shortage

The program is to start this fall semster

Conseil Scolaire Francophone (CSF) teacher in Whistler reading to students. (Courtesy of CSF via UVic)
University of Victoria professor of anthropology Brian Thom at Cordova Bay conducting the field study he has been working on for five years. (Ella Matte/News Staff)

UVic students explore ancient life on barely documented Indigenous land

‘Only two radio carbon dates have been documented in the whole Cordova Bay area’

University of Victoria professor of anthropology Brian Thom at Cordova Bay conducting the field study he has been working on for five years. (Ella Matte/News Staff)
Cargo containers are unloaded from the Maersk Stockholm ship with gantry cranes while docked at port in Vancouver. (Black Press Media File Photo)

UVic is working on Canada’s first zero-carbon emissions shipping corridor

‘This project will be contributing to the global discussion of where shipping is going’

Cargo containers are unloaded from the Maersk Stockholm ship with gantry cranes while docked at port in Vancouver. (Black Press Media File Photo)
A trench rainwater tree plant in Vancouver on Richards Street to help cool the surface area of the local environment. (Courtesy of PICS)

$180K UVic project uses trees to combat extreme heatwaves in Vancouver

‘Urban forests are essential for adapting to climate change’

A trench rainwater tree plant in Vancouver on Richards Street to help cool the surface area of the local environment. (Courtesy of PICS)
The remotely operated vehicle ROPOS is lowered into the water during the expedition to the proposed Tang. ɢwan-hacxwiqak-Tsig̱is Marine Protection Area. (Nicole Holman/Fisheries and Oceans Canada)

Expedition explores supervolcanoes and deep-sea firsts in B.C. waters

Footage of superheated geysers, novel images of species behaviour caught off Vancouver Island

The remotely operated vehicle ROPOS is lowered into the water during the expedition to the proposed Tang. ɢwan-hacxwiqak-Tsig̱is Marine Protection Area. (Nicole Holman/Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
The Past Wrongs, Future Choices project will take a global look at the internment and dispossession of Japanese people from across the globe in the mid-20th century. Pictured is the Takamura family at their peach plantation at Itaquera, São Paulo, on Dec. 25, 1949. (Photo courtesy of the Historical Museum of Japanese Immigration in Brazil)

UVic helping lead first global look at impact of Japanese internment

New project builds on major study into Japanese Canadians having property stolen

The Past Wrongs, Future Choices project will take a global look at the internment and dispossession of Japanese people from across the globe in the mid-20th century. Pictured is the Takamura family at their peach plantation at Itaquera, São Paulo, on Dec. 25, 1949. (Photo courtesy of the Historical Museum of Japanese Immigration in Brazil)
The top microscopic image shows a pteropod with shell dissolution, the white areas, that were exposed to acidic water while the bottom image shows the usual translucent appearance of the sea snail in non-acidic water. It’s part of what helped a UVic researcher question pteropods being a bioindicator for the effects of ocean acidification. (Courtesy of Matt Miller)

UVic sea butterfly study challenges their ocean acidification indicator role

Pteropod shells could be more resilient to, but still face risks from increasingly acidic waters

The top microscopic image shows a pteropod with shell dissolution, the white areas, that were exposed to acidic water while the bottom image shows the usual translucent appearance of the sea snail in non-acidic water. It’s part of what helped a UVic researcher question pteropods being a bioindicator for the effects of ocean acidification. (Courtesy of Matt Miller)
Tim Naimi is the director of the University of Victoria’s Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and the lead of a program that grades Canadian jurisdictions on their alcohol policies. The updated grading recently gave B.C. a failing grade. (Courtesy of Amanda Farrell-Low)

B.C. gets failing grade on alcohol policies from UVic-led national project

Project’s lead flags alcohol’s impact on public health in call for strengthened regulations

Tim Naimi is the director of the University of Victoria’s Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and the lead of a program that grades Canadian jurisdictions on their alcohol policies. The updated grading recently gave B.C. a failing grade. (Courtesy of Amanda Farrell-Low)
The Univesity of Victoria received a $2.4-million boost for its cycling, walking and active transportation infrastructure from the federal government on May 17. (Courtesy of UVic)

Feds pump up UVic’s cycling, active transportation infrastructure

Almost $11 million in funding for active transportation projects coming to the Island

The Univesity of Victoria received a $2.4-million boost for its cycling, walking and active transportation infrastructure from the federal government on May 17. (Courtesy of UVic)
Researchers involved with Accelerating Community Energy Transformation (ACET) pictured at Mt. Tolmie in Victoria. UVic has received $84 million for ACET as it looks to help small to mid-sized communities rapidly deploy clean energy solutions. (Courtesy of Armando Tura)

$84M for UVic-led program looks to accelerate local energy transitions

7-year project aims to see rapid shift to renewable energy in small to mid-sized communities

Researchers involved with Accelerating Community Energy Transformation (ACET) pictured at Mt. Tolmie in Victoria. UVic has received $84 million for ACET as it looks to help small to mid-sized communities rapidly deploy clean energy solutions. (Courtesy of Armando Tura)
The UVIC Seismic Design team’s build withstood the “shake table” better than any other Canadian university at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s Seismic Design Competition in San Francisco. (Courtesy of UVic Seismic Design team)

VIDEO: UVic takes top Canadian spot at international seismic design competition

Engineering students had to build a model tower that wouldn’t collapse during earthquake simulation

The UVIC Seismic Design team’s build withstood the “shake table” better than any other Canadian university at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s Seismic Design Competition in San Francisco. (Courtesy of UVic Seismic Design team)
Overgrow UVic planted a small garden on the lawn in front of the library on campus. This act of ‘Guerilla Gardening’ was an effort to bring awareness to the importance of biodiversity. (Courtesy of Shay Ogurek)

‘Guerilla gardeners’ plant native species on UVic lawn but school quickly digs them up

Environmental studies studies sent message about biodiversity on campus

Overgrow UVic planted a small garden on the lawn in front of the library on campus. This act of ‘Guerilla Gardening’ was an effort to bring awareness to the importance of biodiversity. (Courtesy of Shay Ogurek)
Robina Thomas, University of Victoria vice-president, Indigenous, outside the newly named Cheko’nien House, named after the territory that is now called Oak Bay. (Courtesy University of Victoria)

VIDEO: UVic adds Lekwungen names to two new buildings

One is called Cheko’nien House. Construction on the other, called Sngequ House, will be done in Sept.

Robina Thomas, University of Victoria vice-president, Indigenous, outside the newly named Cheko’nien House, named after the territory that is now called Oak Bay. (Courtesy University of Victoria)
Program manager Ben Whitby shows a similar type of buoy-based wave data collection platform to the one that will be deployed in the waters off Yuquot at the University of Victoria’s Pacific Regional Institute for Marine Energy Discovery (PRIMED) lab in North Saanich March 3. (Austin Westphal/News Staff) Program manager Ben Whitby shows a similar type of buoy-based wave data collection platform to the one that will be deployed in the waters off Yuquot at the University of Victoria’s Pacific Regional Institute for Marine Energy Discovery (PRIMED) lab in North Saanich March 3. (Austin Westphal/News Staff)

UVic researchers help bring First Nation back to Nootka Island with wave power

Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation looks towards renewable energy microgrid to power future community

Program manager Ben Whitby shows a similar type of buoy-based wave data collection platform to the one that will be deployed in the waters off Yuquot at the University of Victoria’s Pacific Regional Institute for Marine Energy Discovery (PRIMED) lab in North Saanich March 3. (Austin Westphal/News Staff) Program manager Ben Whitby shows a similar type of buoy-based wave data collection platform to the one that will be deployed in the waters off Yuquot at the University of Victoria’s Pacific Regional Institute for Marine Energy Discovery (PRIMED) lab in North Saanich March 3. (Austin Westphal/News Staff)