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| ZOOM MEETING RE COVID19 RESEARCH IDEAS | July 16, 2020 - 1:20pm |
We would like to invite all faculty with an interest pursuing COVID19 research to a Zoom meeting to share their project ideas in hopes of identifying synergies and collaborative opportunities. We will answer questions about the special VIURAC COVID 19 Call for Proposals and share a list of other COVID research funding opportunities. Some areas where VIU faculty may be able to respond quickly include but are not limited to: |
| Zoom into Lunch & Learns! | April 7, 2020 - 12:06pm |
Tuesday April 14th from 12 to 1pm: "Developing our Roots to Thrive: Activating Our Innate, Individual and Collective Human Capacity for Resilience" with Shannon Dames. |
| Zoom into Lunch & Learn about... "Alternate Delivery in K-12 Schools: COVID-19 Experiences and Possibilities – A joint Faculty of Education and Health and Human Services Project" | September 23, 2020 - 1:57pm |
with Marian Riedel, Rachell Moll, Riki Cox, Paige Fisher, Alison Taplay and Leif Rasmussen. |
| 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 The Community Scholars Program | June 22, 2021 - 10:23am |
Learn about the Community Scholars Program: Supporting Evidence-Based Practice in Vancouver Island & Region Nonprofits w/ Dana McFarland |
| 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.'
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| 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 ... Indigenizing Platforms: Perspectives on Facebook from Island Melanesia | September 24, 2020 - 12:35pm |
Platform studies explores the explosive proliferation of Internet organizations such as Facebook and what it means for social, cultural, political and economic life today. This new field of inquiry has largely focused on the platformization of Euro-American and Asian lifeworlds while often ignoring especially indigenous voices and experiences. We challenge Platform Studies to be more inclusive accounting for experiences such as those that we encountered during our ethnography of digital transformations in Solomon Islands. |
| 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’
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| 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. |
| Youth Adventures Day Camp | August 27, 2019 - 1:34pm |
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| Yom Kippur | January 13, 2020 - 8:34am |
Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, focuses on the central themes of atonement and repentance. Jews traditionally observe this holy day with an approximate 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer.
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| Writing and Publishing Case Studies | April 24, 2019 - 10:12am |
Do you teach with case studies? Have you found it difficult to find suitable case studies to share with students? Why not write and publish your own? Join this session to learn about the process of writing and publishing case studies for education purposes. Examples of case study publications will be shared and an innovative model of case study publications done by the World Leisure Centre of Excellence will be profiled. Participants will leave with the resources and inspiration they need to create their own case study publications. |
| World-Class VIU Research Vehicle Will Monitor Air Quality in Nanaimo This Winter | November 4, 2019 - 11:01am | |
| World Sight Day | January 30, 2020 - 1:27pm |
Observed annually on the second Thursday of October, World Sight Day aims to draw public attention to blindness and visual impairment. It has been integrated into VISION 2020 - a global initiative led by the World Health Organization to eliminate avoidable blindness. For more information about VISION 2020 and World Sight Day, please visit http://www.iapb.org/vision-2020/. |
| World Religion Day | January 9, 2020 - 12:26pm |
The purpose of World Religion Day is to highlight the idea that the spiritual principles underlying the world's religions are harmonious, and that religions play a significant role in unifying humanity.
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| World Refugee Day | January 30, 2020 - 12:13pm |
World Refugee Day was established by the United Nations to mark the courage, strength, and determination of all the men, women and children who were forced to flee from their homeland under threat of conflict and violence. For more information about World Refugee Day, please follow this link https://www.un.org/en/events/refugeeday/index.shtml. |
| World Oceans Weekend! | June 1, 2018 - 3:02pm |
Come join us on Saturday June 9th and Sunday June 10th to celebrate our Oceans! We will have all-ages activities happening between 11:00am and 4:00pm! Saturday June 9th, 2018:
Cost: $12/Adult and $7/Student (Children 5 and under free) |
| World Oceans Weekend! | June 1, 2018 - 2:59pm |
Come join us on Saturday June 9th and Sunday June 10th to celebrate our Oceans! We will have all-ages activities happening between 11:00am and 4:00pm! Saturday June 9th, 2018:
Cost: $12/Adult and $7/Student (Children 5 and under free) Sunday June 10th, 2018: |
| World Oceans Day | August 27, 2019 - 1:33pm |
Despite the huge challenges facing the world’s ocean, by working together we can support a healthy ocean that is able to sustainably provide for the billions of humans, plants, and animals that depend on it every day. On World Oceans Day, people around our blue planet celebrate and honor the ocean, which connects us all. Get together with your family and friends and join us at Deep Bay Marine Field Station for a fun and educational community event! |
