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10-minute Performances January 20, 2025 - 7:13pm

"At times in my life, the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage."

- Bob Dylan

Let CREATE be your happy place! If you are a performer and a student here at VIU, get out the video camera and start filming!

We are also super stoked to announce that we have partnered with VIUFA's Human Rights and International Solidarity Committee to bring you the Anti-Racism Arts Festival. See below for more info!

What Happens When Sea Otters Eat 15 Pounds of Shellfish a Day? February 2, 2021 - 10:14am

This story was featured on NPR. Read more.

Researchers from VIU study pandemic schooling and children’s mental health February 2, 2021 - 9:54am

This story was featured in the Toronto Star. Read more.

Grant Funds Prototype of Resilience Education Video Game January 25, 2021 - 2:24pm

https://news.viu.ca/grant-funds-prototype-resilience-education-video-game

VIU's Royal Society of Canada Members December 15, 2022 - 3:27pm

Four researchers from VIU have been elected fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the highest academic accolade for scholars, artists and scientists in Canada. They join a distinguished group of more than 2,000 fellows from across the country.

The Royal Society of Canada is the recognized pre-eminent body of independent scholars, researchers and creative people in Canada whose Fellows comprise a collegium that can provide intellectual leadership for the betterment of Canada and the world.

VIU Appointments to the RSC include:

Undergraduate Student Research Awards February 6, 2025 - 11:34am

The Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) is available through significant funding provided by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Starting in 2023-2024, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health (CIHR) also sponsor USRAs for Black scholars.

2020-21 REACH Award Recipients March 1, 2024 - 1:49pm
Zoom into Lunch & Learn about 'What Matters Most: Views of Older Adults with Chinese Descent’ December 21, 2020 - 10:39am

Join Piera Jung, Kelly Zhang, Marti Harder ' and learn about their VIURAC funded project ‘What Matters 2.0: Views of older adults with Chinese descent’

 

Zoom into Lunch & Learn about "Applied Phylogeography - Searching for the Origins of Ebolaviruses" March 10, 2021 - 11:00am

While it seems that the whole world is holding its breath and fighting COVID-19, it is easily forgotten that other pathogens have not disappeared. Especially Africa continues to suffer from epidemics with multiple infectious agents, many of them more feared and deadly than COVID-19. Dr.

Zoom into Lunch & Learn about a 'Canadian Anti-terrorism Study’ December 21, 2020 - 10:29am

Join Ann Rogers to learn about her VIURAC funded 'Canadian Anti-terrorism Study’.

Zoom into Lunch & Learn about the Impact of COVID-19 on Social Service Delivery in the Nanaimo Region December 21, 2020 - 10:26am

Join Jeanette Schmidt and Holly Bradley and learn about their VIURAC funded research project on the impact of COVID-19 on social service delivery in the Nanaimo region.

Zoom into Lunch & Learn about Research on Leisure as a Coping Mechanism for COVID Related Stress January 20, 2021 - 9:37am

Join Aggie Weighill who will discuss her VIURAC funded research project on 'Research on Leisure as a coping mechanism for COVID related stress.'

 

- Cancelled - to be re-scheduled: Lunch & Learn about ‘Traditional Food and Medicinal Plants’ January 19, 2021 - 10:20am

Cancelled - to be re-scheduled. VIU Elder Geraldine Manson will speak about her VIURAC funded 'Geraldine Manson - ‘Traditional Food and Medicinal Plants’ Project. Join us by Zoom!

VIU Professors Examine the Social Impacts of Wearing Masks December 21, 2020 - 9:36am

Wearing a mask is one way to minimize the spread of COVID-19. However, it requires people to use different strategies and social cues in order to communicate clearly and effectively with each other. Read more.

Touch Tank Tuesday December 17, 2020 - 7:46am

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Join us weekly on Facebook LIVE to see a surprise critter from our touch tanks. Each week, we will select a new species from the tank to share while live streaming.

We will be talking about the species, showing their special features, and taking questions from the public.

A Creative Christmas Contest November 20, 2021 - 11:09am
Indigenous archeologist unearthing her ancestors’ legacy on the land November 24, 2020 - 12:54pm

As crews work, they call out Roberts any time they uncover anything that might be significant — especially if they spot signs of a shell midden. Shellfish remnants and other materials deposited in middens are valuable evidence of former Indigenous communities, and are archeological caches that can also include animal bones, artifacts or tools and even human remains. And so far, Roberts has struck gold.

Read more in BC Local New, Nov. 2019

How a Human Cousin Adapted to a Changing Climate November 24, 2020 - 12:24pm

Ms. Good would eventually learn that she had unearthed a two-million-year-old skull that belonged to Paranthropus robustus, our large-toothed, small-brained ancient human cousin. It is the earliest and best-preserved specimen found so far of the species, which lived alongside and may have competed for resources with our direct ancestor Homo erectus.

Locating the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region in Governance November 20, 2020 - 12:11pm

Hi everyone! Im Jake, a student in the Master of Community Planning program. 

VIU Professor Appointed to Reference Group for Review of Indigenous Research November 19, 2020 - 11:16am

Dr. Georgina Martin, a VIU Indigenous/Xwulmuxw Studies Professor, has been elected to a newly established, national group for the culturally appropriate review of Indigenous research and is the sole BC representative.