by Dorothy Poon | Aug 26, 2020 | Features
Personal decisions, changing rental markets impacting how students secure roofs over their heads this fall amid COVID-19 Graphic by Darian Lee On a mid-March morning, after the COVID-19 pandemic hit and UVic officially moved all courses online, Joe Hansen got a...
by Dorothy Poon | Aug 17, 2020 | Campus, News
Stock photo via Pixabay In the wake of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, two UVic undergraduate students noticed a marked absence of engagement with racism and its role in the world of science. As two undergraduate research assistants at UVic’s Baum lab,...
by Dorothy Poon | Jul 14, 2020 | Lifestyle, Sports | Lifestyle
Photo via Pixabay You can still enjoy the outdoors over the next couple months it’ll just require a bit more caution Although BC is now in Phase 3 of the provincial plan for dealing with life in the time of COVID-19, we need to remain diligent about social distancing...
by Dorothy Poon | Jul 14, 2020 | Culture
File photo by Belle White Rahat Saini didn’t really feel like a “visible minority” until she got to UVic. But in the Phoenix Theatre department’s performance program, nearly every student and professor was white. At first, this didn’t...
by Dorothy Poon | Jul 10, 2020 | News
COVID-19 is taking its toll on the environment, in more ways than one — particularly through the use of PPE Photo by Riley van der Linden Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) has risen sharply around the world. PPE plays a...