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Three years later, generative AI continues to change classroom culture

“Undergraduates are under an immense amount of pressure to produce… Grad students are under that but more… The pressure is there for people to make use of this,” said Hodge. 

Renovations to UVSS Food Bank improves access, discontinues free store

Priyanka Lopez, a masters student at UVic in the Department of Social Work, is a new user of the Food Bank. “I feel like it’s super essential,” said Lopez. “I…

Qwul’sih’yah’maht, Dr. Robina Thomas is UVic’s interim president

Her research focuses on residential schools, Indigenous ways of knowing and being, Indigenous women and children, social work education, and storytelling. 

UVic professor releases ‘most comprehensive view’ of glacial erosion

One of the many challenges that Norris and her team faced while conducting this research was getting glacial erosion rates from previously published literature. “Although we have 180 000 glaciers…

UVic’s Centre for Indigenous Laws opens this September

“The program … reflects and responds to the reality that every part of Canada is subject not only to the laws of the federal government, provinces, and municipalities, but also…

UVic the first university in BC to introduce a ‘Good Samaritan’ drug policy

"We would really like to see the university be proactive in communicating this policy change,” said Galway. “If it’s not communicated, then the policy might as well not exist.”

UVic to launch Canada’s first Doctor of Engineering program

The university is preparing to introduce new doctorate programs aimed at working professionals in different industries UVic is launching a new doctoral program aimed at working professionals in the engineering…

UVic-based Climate Disaster Project awarded $2.5M to expand global storytelling initiative

"Climate change is going to be the defining experience of this century. Our lives will be defined by the perennial disasters that each season brings,” Holman said. “If the news…

‘Food Not Lawns:’ How guerrilla gardeners inspired the next generation of environmental activists

For others, however, guerilla gardening is an anti-colonial act meant to address food security concerns in local communities, and challenge the institutions and systems that decide who is allowed to…