VIU in the News: Two days of talent will aid students
January 26, 2012
Wide variety of top acts will play at Diners Rendezvous Feb. 9 and 10 for cash to buy instruments By Walter Cordery, Nanaimo Daily News Published: Thursday, January 26, 2012 Eight different musical acts are banding together to hold a two-day event at the Diners Rendezvous to help budding musicians at Vancouver Island University. The shows feature well known groups such as the Georgia Strait... Read more
Visual Arts professor takes edgy approach with installation at Victoria gallery
January 25, 2012
With a well-worn oil drum perched on a creaky stand and a continuous screening of his “post-punk” video You Suck, Gregory Ball is quick to point out that his latest art installation isn’t pretty. “As the drum moves, it wobbles and there’s a whining noise. It’s very irritating,” says the Vancouver Island University Visual Arts professor. Ball is one of five BC artists featured in Throw Down, a... Read more
VIU in the News: Elementary students get a glimpse of their potential future at university
January 21, 2012
Robert Barron, Daily News You could almost feel the excitement among the students at Randerson Ridge Elementary School on Monday as education students from Vancouver Island University hosted Learning Centre Day in the school's gymnasium. As part of their degree program, approximately 30 VIU students set up 16 hands-on and interactive activity centres that focused on a number of educational... Read more
Canadian and global energy sustainability focus of lecture Jan. 25
January 20, 2012
David Hughes, a respected geoscientist and authority on North American and world fossil-fuel reserves, will be speaking on Canadian and global energy sustainability at Vancouver Island University on Wednesday, Jan 25 at 7 pm. Hughes says we face an energy sustainability dilemma, which will profoundly impact future generations unless our non-renewable resources are managed for long term... Read more
VIU researcher and poet take part in inaugural TEDx program in Victoria
January 17, 2012
Update: A web link has been posted for the TEDxVictoria poetry performances by the Vic Slam Team (Scott Thompson with Dr. Justin McGrail, Chair of Visual Arts at VIU and Jeremy Loveday with Matthew Christopher Davidson). Dr. Helen Gurney-Smith, Research Scientist and Head of Shellfish Health & Husbandry Group at the Centre for Shellfish Research talked about her cutting edge work at the... Read more
Celebrate Year of the Dragon at VIU’s Lunar New Year party Jan. 21
January 17, 2012
Vancouver Island University’s Nanaimo campus will take on a carnival-like atmosphere as Chinese students celebrate the Year of the Dragon during their annual Lunar New Year party on Saturday, Jan. 21. The event is open to the public and takes place in the upper cafeteria (Building 300) from 2 to 5 pm. Festivities will include Chinese games, cultural displays, traditional performances by students... Read more
Research team hopes to inspire worldwide fisheries
January 13, 2012
A doctoral student under the supervision of Vancouver Island University faculty member Stefanie Duff is on his way to Australia after receiving a prestigious international research award. Brett Favaro received the Australian Endeavour Award and leaves for the University of Queensland in February to study with world-renowned biology professor Hugh Possingham for three months. “Brett will be... Read more
Science grad in the news: Vet student from Chemainus eager to return and practise at home
January 10, 2012
By Niomi Pearson Ladysmith Chronicle Ever since she was a little girl, Katie Nicol always said she wanted to be a veterinarian when she grew up. Five months into the veterinary medicine program at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine — University of Saskatoon, the Chemainus-raised student is realizing that dream and is eager to return and practise out of the home she grew up in. “I have... Read more
VIU hosts Royal Society of Canada Governor General Lecture Feb. 8
January 10, 2012
The public is invited to a free lecture at Vancouver Island University by the esteemed Dr. Jim Miller, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Miller, a professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan, has held the Canada Research Chair in Native-Newcomer Relations since 2008. His evocative lecture, entitled, “We are all treaty people” takes place at VIU’s Nanaimo... Read more
Log cabin setting suits literary evening of magic and spells
January 10, 2012
Robert Pepper-Smith and Harold Rhenisch will provide a mix of poetry, magic and spells at Vancouver Island University’s Nanaimo campus Jan. 19. The readings, presented by Poets on Campus, will be in the Log Cabin (Building 365) starting at 7 pm. Pepper-Smith, who teaches philosophy at VIU, is the author of Six Stories, The Wheel Keeper and a new novel, House of Spells. House of Spells is the... Read more