The UVic United
Way Campaign team received the Community Impact Award at the Spirit Awards Ceremony
on March 26. Dr. Mary Ellen Purkis chaired the campaign that raised $256,899 for
the community and signed up 80 new UVic donors! The incoming 2014 UVic United
Way Campaign Chair is Kane Kilby.
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| Members of the UVic team received the United Way Community Impact Award |
Community-University
Engagement Conference is open to community registration
The
Community-University Engagement Conference is coming May 20 to May 22. Join us
for three exciting days of keynote presentations, workshops, teaching circles,
poster sessions, field trips, networking receptions and a gala evening
celebration. http://www.uvic.ca/cuvic2014/
UVic’s Dr.
Bonnie Leadbeater has received a BC Community Achievement award for her work
with educators and police officers to create the anti-bullying project for
schools called WITS—Walk Away, Ignore, Talk It out and Seek Help http://www.web.uvic.ca/wits/
Vikes major athletics awards
UVic Vikes announced its major athletics
award winners on April 1st. Top honours went to
fifth-year track captain Kyle Irvine, who was awarded the President's Cup.
Track star Rachel Francois was named Female Athlete of the Year while
fifth-year basketball All-Canadian Terrell Evans earned Male Athlete of the
Year Honours. Among those recognized Tuesday evening were former coaches
Jan Crook, Dr. David Docherty and Dr. Bruce Howe.
The New Music
Performance class presents new pieces by UVic composition students written for
UVic performance students as well as important works from the 20th/21st
century.
When: Monday, April 7th. 8:00 p.m.
Where: Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, Room B125
Admission by
donation.
The Masterminds lecture series highlights the continuing contributions of the University of Victoria’s retirees. The series is co-hosted by the UVic Retirees Association and the Centre on Aging, with the support of the University of Victoria. There is a free lecture on Wednesday evenings from April 9 to April 30, 2014.
April 9, 2014: I Did it My Way: Memoir of a Woman from Hong Kong, Dr. Fong Wong
April 16, 2014: Contributions of Mathematical Modelling to Controlling Infectious Diseases, Dr. Pauline van den Driessche
April 30, 2014: Healing, Humor and High Level Wellness, Dr. Martin Collis
Where: UVic’s Hickman Building, Room 105
Admission
is free and everyone is welcome. See http://www.coag.uvic.ca/events.htm
More than 250
students (grades 4-12) from the Island will present their Science Fair projects
at an event open to the community.
When
and Where:
The Open house will be on April 13 from 1:00-4:30 and on April 14 from 10:00 to
12:30 on both floors of the Elliot Building. The awards
ceremony will be on Monday from 1:30 to 3:00 in MacLaurin A144. See: http://web.uvic.ca/~virsf/index.php
Cafe
Scientifique presents Dr. Adam Monahan (School of Earth and Ocean Sciences,
UVic) speaking on "Rolling the Weather Dice: Order out of Randomness in
Weather and Climate". Atmospheric
variability is notoriously difficult to predict. Because of the
complexity of this variability, perspectives from probability theory
provide a natural framework for understanding and predicting atmospheric
changes.
When: Monday,
April 14 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: Hermann's
Jazz Club Inc 753 View StFree registration at http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cafe-scientifique-apr-14th-2014-tickets-11107160817
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