Two Vikes swimmers have received major accolades in the past few weeks. Early in January, the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWS) named Paralympic student-athlete Stephanie Dixon one of Canada's Most Influential Women in Sport and Physical Activity. Dixon, a psychology major, won eight medals at the 2004 Paralympics held in Athens last September. Humanities student Mackenzie Downing has made a real splash in her first season with the Vikes. At the Canada West Swimming Championships on Jan. 21-23, Downing earned four gold medals and was named Canada West's Female Rookie-of-the-Year for swimming. Both student athletes are now preparing for the upcoming Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) Championships to be hosted by the University of Alberta on Feb. 25–27.

Law professor Rebecca Johnson's book Taxing Choices: The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law, has won the 2003/04 Harold Adams Innis prize from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The book won in the category of best aid-to-scholarly-publications, program-funded
English language book in the social sciences. Taxing Choices explores a high- profile conflict between class and gender claims.

An essay by Dr. Eric Sager (history) is among those included in Innovation, Essays by Leading Canadian Researchers published last fall by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Sager writes about his involvement in the Canadian Families Project, a major collaborative initiative funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The project studied Canadian families in the past to help inform public policy in the future. Sager is part of a team of scholars, the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure Project, that is using 20th-century censuses to study Canadians and Canadian families over the last 100 years.

For the fourth time in six years, a UVic business student is the winner of the B.C. Export Award for International Business Studies. The award recognizes Shona Sinclair's leadership and excellence in international studies while contributing to B.C.'s export community. Sinclair participated on the 2002 Junior Team Canada Trade Mission where she researched market opportunities and contact information for local forestry and constructions companies wishing to do business in China.