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Car-share makes UVic extra green
A new mini-van is the latest addition to UVic’s Car Share Co-op. The van is one of four vehicles made available to campus community members willing to forgo a family vehicle in exchange for a car share co-op lifestyle, and UVic pays for the membership. No other university in Canada provides this kind of sustainability initiative. More at: http://housing.uvic.ca/family/fhguide.php#carsharing
Top choice for transfer scholarship winners
UVic leads the pack as the university of choice for this year’s 85 Ike Barber Transfer Scholarship winners. Thirty-one of the 85 recipients of the $5,000 scholarship will be attending UVic. The scholarships reward outstanding academic achievement and community service, supporting undergrads who have completed two years at a BC public post-secondary institution and are transferring to another BC institution to complete their degree.
Remembering
for a reason
In 1989, 14 female engineering students were murdered by a gunman on Dec. 6 at Montreal’s École Polytechnique. Every year since then, universities and other communities across the country have held a national day of remembrance and action to honour these women’s memories and call for an end to violence against women. Members of the University of Victoria community and the public are invited to attend the annual National Day for Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women on December 3 at UVic. Classes will be cancelled from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to allow everyone to attend the gathering, which will be held at the fountain in front of the library.
Traffic & parking study
The Campus Planning Committee has received the final report of the Traffic and Parking Management Study, initiated by the Office of Campus Planning and Sustainability and carried out by Opus International Consultants (BC) Ltd. A key resource in planning for future campus parking and transportation needs, the report will inform the campus sustainability policy and action plan and implementation of the campus Transportation Demand Management program. The report is available from Neil Connelly at nconn@uvic.ca or http://web.uvic.ca/sustainability/.
Pages of UVic history
The Lansdowne Era: Victoria College, 1946–1963—with essays by former students and instructors of UVic’s predecessor—received its official launch at an Oct. 14 event attended by 250 people at the Fairmont Empress. “I had a feeling that the Lansdowne era was a dynamic period. But seeing it confirmed in cold hard facts is another thing,” says the book’s editor, Edward Harvey. Contributors include BC Chief Justice Lance Finch and Chancellor Ron Lou-Poy. The book is dedicated to the late Peter L. Smith, professor of Greek and Roman studies at UVic and Victoria College. Proceeds support student financial aid in Smith’s name. The Lansdowne Era is on sale at the UVic Bookstore (uvicbookstore.ca).
The Blue Hour
of the Day
Prof. Lorna Crozier will deliver a Distinguished Professor Lecture/Reading Thur. Nov. 20 at 7:30 pm in Fine Arts Building 103. Crozier’s latest book, The Blue Hour of the Day, Selected Poems, was published last year. It includes the best of her 14 other books of poetry published over the last 20 years. She will read from that collection as well as from a manuscript of new poetry and from an unpublished book of nonfiction that will be released by Greystone Press in the fall of 2009. It’s called Anywhere a Prairie Road Can Go, and it uses as its main character the landscape of southwest Saskatchewan.
High-profile keynotes featured at workplace bullying conference
Two of the world’s foremost authorities on bullying will deliver keynote addresses at a public conference entitled “Creating Respectful Workplaces” on campus in November. Barbara Coloroso, author of The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander, will speak on Nov. 11 and Dr. Gary Namie, co-founder and director of the Workplace Bullying Institute, will speak on Nov. 13. The conference is sponsored by UVic’s Equity and Human Rights Office and the Canadian Union of Public Employees. Info: http://web.uvic.ca/eqhr/conference08.htm; tickets: http://auditorium.uvic.ca or 250–721–8480.
Out of Africa
How can Africa get the high-skills community it needs to become self-sufficient? World-renowned physicist Dr. Neil Turok will describe his vision at the 2008 Vifor Pharma-Aspreva public lecture at UVic on Nov. 29. His topic will be “AIMS for Africa,” which refers to the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences he founded in 2003 in his native South Africa. AIMS recruits Africa’s brightest graduates in math and science and prepares them for scientific careers. The lecture takes place at 7:30 p.m. in the University Centre Farquhar Auditorium. Admission is free but reserved seating tickets are required. For reservations call 250–721–8480 or visit www.auditorium.uvic.ca.
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