June 6, 2000

Front Page Stories

• UVic board passes first good news budget in six years
• Prof, grad student among Women of Distinction winners
• New vice president looks forward to working with community

Convocation 2000

• Being Canadian: Massey legacy focus of research
• Historian intrigued with German attitudes to Nazi past
• Computer science undergrad juggles his way to top marks
• Business grad’s prospects are as big as Texas
• Law grad gets a “front row seat” to Canada’s highest court
• Science medal winner scores academic “hat trick”
• Education grad draws on personal experience to help students with disabilities
• The sky is the limit for top engineering grad
• Grad makes music for the mind
• Music major heads for med school
• 7 for the spotlight

News and Features

• Islamic scholar to lead UVic humanities faculty
• Award-winning teacher enjoys sharing wonders of the universe
• Strategic planning update
• 10 Strong years
• Law award-winner puts “heart and soul” into community
• Speakers Bureau: UVic speaks out
• UVic Speakers Bureau thank-yous
• Faculty Club: Changing with the times
• New master’s in nursing gets green light
• Kudos for nursing researcher
• Profs to improve rural science education

Brian Stancil from UVic’s carpentry shop gets ready to afix a bronze plaque to the building formerly known as the 1996 Classroom Building. The building has been officially renamed in honour of Dr. David Strong, who steps down as UVic president at the end of June after two five-year terms. The David F. Strong Building contains several classrooms and lecture rooms and is a popular location for public lectures and other presentations. For more on the Strong years, see page 5.