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Name the new library café
A new java joint is coming to campus this fall as part of the Mearns Centre for Learning expansion of the McPherson Library. UVic Libraries invites all UVic students, faculty and staff to participate in a contest to name the new café. Please visit the website at http://gateway.uvic.ca/coffee before July 20 to submit your suggestion(s). You may enter the contest as many times as you like. The winning suggestion will be chosen by the University Librarian and a panel of judges. The winner will receive a $50 Housing, Food and Conference Services card to spend at the new café and other food services locations on campus.
More than 600 of you biked to work
Bike to Work Week was a resounding success at UVic this year, with 42 teams and more than 600 people participating between May 28 and June 1. UVic won 13 team prizes, a new rider prize, a commuter challenge prize and eight of 36 team dinner prizes from the Bike to Work Society.
Congratulations to the 65 riders who won UVic-sponsored prizes, including Marie-France Laurin from the MacPherson Library, who won the CFUV draw for a $650 gift certificate to Reckless Bicycle Stores.
Once again, UVic was a gold-level sponsor. New for 2007 was a partnership between SPOKES and UVic that provided loaner bikes to people without cycles who wanted to participate. Eighteen employees borrowed the bikes and seven have decided to keep them for the remainder of the summer.
UVic’s participation in Bike to Work Week was coordinated by the Office of Campus Planning and Sustainability, with the assistance of the bicycle users committee and helps support the key Campus Plan goal of reducing motor vehicle traffic to campus.
Thanks to Thrifty Foods, BC Transit, Old Victoria Water, Island West, Pepsi, Oak Bay Recreation Centre, UVic’s Bookstore and Finnerty’s, IQ Bistro and Cinecenta for their support for Bike to Work Week activities on campus.
Kids invited to participate in Face Camp
This summer, Drs. Jim Tanaka and Ulrich Mueller (psychology) will be conducting research examining face recognition in children. They invite children ages 7 through 9 to participate in Face Camp, a free, fun and educational program at which kids will learn about face recognition through a series of fast-paced hands-on activities and demonstrations by guest scientists and artists. Lunch will be provided and participants will receive a cool Face Camp t-shirt. The July 14 session is booked, but there are still a few spaces available for the July 21 session. For further information, please go to the Face Camp website: http://web.uvic.ca/~jtanaka/facecamp/.
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