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Professor Denis Protti (health information science) received an honorary doctorate from City University in London on May 13. The founding director of UVic’s School of Health Information Science—Canada’s leading school of health information science—Protti is an internationally recognized leader in the advancement of health informatics. In 1998 he was commissioned by Her Majesty’s Treasury in England to review the proposed National Health Service (NHS) Information Strategy prior to its release. He later developed the evaluation methodology that was used to monitor the implementation of their national strategy—a process referred to as the Protti Scores.
Dr. Holly Tuokko (psychology) has been appointed director of the Centre on Aging (COAG) for a five-year term beginning July 1. She served as associate director of COAG from 1999–2002.
Dr. Oscar Casiro, head of the Division of Medical Sciences, has been appointed regional associate dean, Vancouver Island, Faculty of Medicine, UBC. He has been associate dean of the Island Medical Program (IMP) based at the University of Victoria since January 2004 and helped to pioneer the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s distributed undergraduate medical education system on Vancouver Island, in collaboration with the University of Victoria and the Vancouver Island Health Authority. As regional associate dean, Casiro will assume strategic leadership of undergraduate and postgraduate medical education on Vancouver Island, including development and implementation of initiatives and policies that support continued integration of medical education opportunities.
Anthony Theocharis (computer science and music) won the $2,500 top prize in the BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge in May. The annual competition honours BC’s best and brightest students for innovative, commercially viable computer applications that utilize super broadband networks. Theorcharis’s project was a music tagging computer application for recording artists, audio engineers and radio stations. It allows users to search by audio tags and peer-to peer networks through massive audio files to find the exact genre of music in their search, instantaneously. Second prize went to Neil Clark (computer science) for his project “CubeScape: A Scalable Approach for 3D Worlds.”
Dr. Hans Tammemagi (environmental studies) had two books published by Oxford University Press in March. In Air: Our Planet’s Ailing Atmosphere, he explores the history and evolution of the atmosphere, dealing with key issues associated with the changing character of one of the most basic components of life on Earth. A new edition of Tammemagi’s Half-lives: A Guide to Nuclear Technology in Canada updates the only book to consider this subject, evaluating nuclear technology as a potential source of clean energy as well as its applications in medicine and industry.
Cole McFarlane, Vikes men’s soccer player, and Vikes women’s basketball team member Kayla Dykstra will both represent Canada at this summer’s Federation Internationale du Sport Universitaire (FISU) Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia. McFarlane netted 11 goals last season to lead the Vikes to the progam’s 11th conference title. He was subsequently named Canada West All-Star, Canada West MVP and CIS All-Canadian. Dykstra is CIS basketball player of the year, the first Vikes player in over two decades to win women’s basketball MVP honours. She led the Canada West conference in points and set a new team single-season record for rebounds.
UVic-based digital history projects are winning recognition. The British Colonist Online Project, a partnership between UVic and the Times Colonist that puts decades of BC’s colonial history online, has won an Award of Recognition for a major contribution to BC heritage from the BC Heritage Society and an Award of Merit from the Hallmark Society. The project website, launched late last year to mark the 150th anniversary of the Times Colonist newspaper, contains over 100,000 pages of one of Western Canada’s oldest daily newspapers. UVic on its own has won an Award of Merit from the Hallmark Society for Colonial Despatches (sic), a project that digitized transcripts of government documents that passed between Victoria and London during the city’s colonial period. More: http://library.uvic.ca/site/spcoll/digit/colonist/ and http://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/
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