When the Vancouver Island Advanced Technology Centre (VIATeC) handed out its annual awards on June 28, many of the winners had strong ties to UVic. The award for Community Involvement went to Dr. Nigel Livingston of UVic's Assistive Technology Team (UVATT), which is dedicated to developing technology and devices for people with disabilities. VIATeC Member of the Year Award-winner Power Measurement has been a consistent employer of UVic co-op students for many years. PureEdge Solutions, winner of the Colin Lennox Award for Technology Champion, was co-founded in the early ‘90s by then UVic students David Manning and Eric Jordan, now the company's chief strategy officer. Genologics Life Sciences Software, a UVic spin-off company, won the Award for Emerging Technology Company of the Year. It produces software to assist research and pharmaceutical laboratories to manage, integrate and analyse volumes of data.

Dr. Antoinette Oberg, an associate professor in the department of curriculum and instruction, has been honoured with the Ted T. Aoki Award for Distinguished Service from the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (CACS). Oberg developed UVic's curriculum studies graduate program in the faculty of education, and has been its coordinator and graduate advisor since it began in 1978. She has supervised to completion seven doctoral students and 118 master's students.

Dr. Andreas Antoniou, a professor emeritus in electrical and computer engineering, has won the 2005 Technical Achievement Award from the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers Circuits and Systems Society (CAS). The award honours outstanding technical contributions over a period of years as documented by publications, books, patents, etc. Antoniou received the award for his contributions in the area of circuit design and digital signal processing.

Dr. Deborah Begoray, chair of the department of curriculum and instruction, has received an award for outstanding article of 2004-05 from the Organization of Teacher Education. The award was presented at the annual meeting of the International Reading Association for Begoray's article on literacy and numeracy in middle schools. The article was co-written with Betty Johns of the University of Manitoba.