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The Vikes women’s field hockey team will have a chance to compete for their 11th national title this fall on home turf. Last month Canadian Interuniversity Sport confirmed that UVic will host the 2008 women’s field hockey national championships Oct. 30 to Nov. 2. As host, UVic is assured a spot at the national competition, although the Vikes are habitual medal contenders. Since head coach Lynne Beecroft took over the program in 1979, the Vikes have qualified for the national championships 24 times and have only missed the medal podium once. Last year the Vikes won the bronze medal. They won their last title in 2002.
The Division of Continuing Studies’ Promotion and Publications unit has won a CAUCE (Canadian Association for University Continuing Education) marketing award in the website category for the English Language Centre site at www.continuingstudies.uvic.ca/elc. The award was presented at the CAUCE Conference in London, Ontario, on May 29. Continuing studies Web Developer Matt Salik had primary responsibility for building and implementing the site.
Prof. Emeritus John Money (history) has been honoured by The Historical Journal, Cambridge University’s top history journal. In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the journal has allowed special electronic access to the 20 most influential articles published in its pages. One of them is Money’s 1971 article “Taverns, Coffee Houses and Clubs: Local Politics and Popular Articulacy in the Birmingham Area in the Age of the American Revolution.”
Dr. Cathy Richardson (social work) was invited to attend the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York from April 21 to May 2. The forum’s theme: Climate Change, Bio-Cultural Diversity and Livelihoods: The Stewardship Role of Indigenous Peoples and New Challenges, raised issues regarding preservation of Indigenous knowledge and eco-systems, stopping the advance of the American military in the Pacific, protecting women and children and dealing with issues of forced migration. Richardson participated in the Indigenous Women’s Caucus which put forth an intervention on the need to address the safety and well-being of Indigenous women. She is forging a research alliance with the Centre for Northern Families in Yellowknife and is studying child welfare treatment of Indigenous families in the north.
Computer science doctoral student Louis Lei Yu, master’s student Yan Zhuang and professor Dr. Valerie King are the winners of a best poster award at WWW2008 in Beijing, the premier venue for academics and industry to present work on the Web. The poster, “Guanxi in the Chinese Web: A Study of Mutual Linking,” proposes and investigates a novel theory that the linking structure in the Chinese Web reflects the particular network of fundamental social relationships in China known as guanxi. To view the paper visit http://www2008.0rg/papers/pp206.html.
UVic child care supervisor Debbie Esposito has been awarded a $1,000 Certificate of Achievement from the Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Early Childhood Education. Manager of UVic Child Care Services Jack Lalonde applauds his entire team as well as Esposito’s commitment “to providing quality child care programs here at UVic for the past 20 years. The award recognizes the work Debbie and her team do in meeting the varied needs of the children in their care.”
UVic faculty member Kathy Gaul is this year’s winner of a national award for medical education, the CAME (Canadian Association for Medical Education) Certificate of Merit Award. Gaul, a member of UVic’s Island Medical Program and the School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education, was part of the original UVic team that helped expand the UBC medical program to Vancouver Island and northern BC. Chief among her many achievements and commitments, she is course director for the program’s foundations of medicine and teaches human anatomy and exercise physiology.
In April, the University of Victoria Model UN Club flew to New York for a major “mock” conference replicating the actions of UN negotiators, and returned home with a number of awards including one for Distinguished Delegation. The UVic team represented the Chinese delegation, not an easy task in the face of international criticism over treatment of Tibet and the Olympic torch relay, and received assistance from three faculty advisors. The five-day National Model United Nations Conference took place April 22–26 and the delegation award placed the UVic team in the top 15 per cent of participants, with approximately 2,400 university and college students from across North America, Europe and other regions in attendance.
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