September 2007

Orientation

Orientation team has all the answers
An enthusiastic welcome and a helpful hand to thousands of new and returning students are extended by members of UVic’s orientation team. L-R (front): Team captains Hanyue Zhang, Melanie Tremblay and Aruba Nurullah; (rear) volunteer Robert Robertson and his brother, Student Transition Centre staffer George Robertson show off their “Ask Me” buttons. A third Robertson brother, Steven, is also an orientation volunteer this year.

Features

NEPTUNE NEPTUNE installation begins
After several years of intensive planning and design, the installation of UVic-led NEPTUNE Canada, the world’s first regional cabled seafloor observatory, began last month in the waters off the west coast of Vancouver Island.

facecamp Face Camp
How do you convince 60 kids to spend a sunny July afternoon volunteering for cognitive research?
Make it fun. Hire a clown. Call it Face Camp.

Gobi UVic staff member runs across the Gobi for fun and fundraising
In June, Rob MacKay put his penchant for challenge to the utmost test in a grueling seven-day foot race over a 250 km course of wild terrain and extreme temperatures.
   
 
 
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