The Ring June 2005

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June 2005 · Vol 31 · No 6

Colours of Convocation: Seven undergraduate medal-winners, sporting the graduation colours of their faculty, celebrate their achievements. Left to right, Paula Ramsay (law), Philip Rempel (fine arts), Kiel Boyle (engineering), Emily Braden (humanities), David Crawford (engineering), Shirley Shi (engineering) and Amanda Jagdis (science).

	Honouring a legacy of support The Sedgewick Building’s B-wing, which houses the centre for studies in religion and society (CSRS), has been renamed the Allen and Loreen Vandekerkhove Wing.

	Field school students learn First Nation skills and history Members of the Stó:lō Nation invited UVic graduate students into their homes and into their culture during a unique ethnohistory field school held last month in Chilliwack.

	Special China convocation leaves lasting impression UVic further strengthened its ties with China last month when, for the second time in the university’s history, it honoured Chinese humanitarians in Beijing’s imposing and historic Great Hall of the People.

	Geographer leads $1 million Brazilian recycling project A University of Victoria geographer is the Canadian leader of a $1 million international development project to help build community-based, sustainable recycling programs in Brazil.