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September, 2003 · Vol 29 · No 11

Message to our readers

 

To off-campus readers

   

Welcome to UVic!

Jenny Halliday, Jowett Yu, JanaLee Cherneski and Devin Arnold (l-r) are among the more than 100 UVic Orientation program staff and volunteers who have been welcoming students back to campus.

Week of welcome

Showing their colours

Jennifer Margison, manager of career services and BA '77, is one of 100 volunteers welcoming alumni back to campus.

Showing their colours

Williams art makes its public debut

The first major public exhibit of art from the estate of Michael Williams will be held at three Victoria locations throughout September.

Glen Howarth - Pub scene, 1975

Co-op chronicles


Law student helps "give voice to the voiceless"
Josh Frost has some idea what it’s like to have a hand in writing history. Last year, the UVic law student spent six months at The Hague in the Netherlands.

Josh Frost
A summer of birds, back roads, and big cats

Jenna Cragg, a second-year biology student, wasn’t sure what to expect when she was hired to study threatened seabird populations on the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Jenna Cragg

Make way for the Venus Express

Ryan Nicoll’s latest co-op experience was out of this world—literally. The fourth-year mechanical engineering student spent last semester working for the European Space Agency (ESA).

Ryan Nicoll
 

News

 

Message to our readers

 

To off-campus readers

 

100 years of educationHappy birthday to us!

UVic shines spotlight on human rights advocate

 

New vice-president external takes the reins

 

Jane Doe to lecture at UVic

 

Williams art makes its public debut

 

Public meeting to focus on planning and traffic

 

Are we flushing the future?

 

New grant boosts aging centre research

 

 

Features

 

Get on the ball, urges UVic instructor

 

Environmental healing starts with us

 

Co-op chronicles

 

Going green for profit

 

New venture taps into UVic water expertise

 

 

 

Columns

 

Around the ring

New faculty

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