Research newshounds on the scent
Two talented student journalists, Monique Jacobs and Leah Pence, have begun working with UVic communications to get the word out on research being conducted at the university.
As participants in the SPARK program (Students Promoting Awareness of Research Knowledge), funded jointly by the university and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, they’re interviewing and photographing UVic researchers and writing stories for UVic publications and media releases.
Jacobs is a third-year political science co-op and English major serving a co-op work term at UVic’s centre for global studies, where she’s researching the global effects of multilateral financial institutions. Earlier this month she also helped the UVic Circle K Volunteers Club organize a fundraising dinner in support of a children’s home in South Africa, which cares for children whose parents have died from AIDS or who are HIV-positive themselves.
Pence is a third-year English major with a professional writing minor who has worked as a writer, researcher and editor for Blue Magazine, an adventure travel publication in New York City. See Pence’s first contribution, above, an update of a piece written by one of last fall’s SPARK students, Kirsten Rodenhizer. |
