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Dr. Anne Bruce and Dr. Laurene Sheilds (nursing) and Dr. Anita Molzhan, formerly from the School of Nursing, are the recipients of the Nephrology Nursing Journal Research Writing Award for their article “Learning from Stories of People with Chronic Kidney Disease.” The purpose of the study was to explore how people with chronic kidney disease describe experiences of living in-between a promise of treatment and prolonged life and the threat of death. The award was presented in San Diego, California, on April 26, 2009.
Dr. Marge Reitsma-Street (studies in policy and practice) is the 2009 recipient of the National Dick Wieler Award from the Canadian Council on Social Development. The award is presented annually to acknowledge and honour exceptional contributions to community and social development in Canada. It recognizes outstanding dedication to social justice and creative response to social needs in both occupational and volunteer endeavours. Reitsma-Street has bridged academia with the community since the 1970s to advance issues of juvenile justice, poverty, welfare law reform, affordable housing and ways to value women’s unpaid work. The award will be presented in Toronto this fall.
Khyl Orser, fourth-year kinesiology student, rolled out of Victoria on April 28 to bike across Canada to raise money for Big Brothers Big Sisters, the non-profit organization that matches children and youth with mentors. Orser and his cycling partner Travis Taylor set out from Mile Zero and will head east through Hope, Princeton, Medicine Hat and the Rockies then straight on to the Maritimes. They expect to pedal back into Victoria at the end of May or early June after a tire-melting trip of only 36 days. Their fundraising target is $15,000. Their online donations page can be accessed from their Facebook group: Khyl and Travis’s epic adventure across Canada. Blog: http://trekcanada.tumblr.com/
UVic has struck silver (twice) in the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District VIII communications awards program: for the Institutional Case for Support publication, co-ordinated by Chris Thackray (development) and for the Student Case for Support, co-ordinated by Maureen Olson (development). Both publications were produced under the direction of Shannon von Kaldenberg, associate vice-president alumni and development, and designed by Pearl Roberts of Iris Communications.
Dr. Thomas Darcie (electrical and computer engineering) has been elected fellow of the Optical Society of America for his contributions to the understanding, theory and applications of optical communications technology leading to significant advances in broadband optical access systems. The OSA is a scientific society dedicated to advancing the study of light—optics and photonics—in theory and application. Darcie is also an AT&T fellow and a fellow of the IEEE. His research program focuses on systems for communications, broadband access and real-time networks, optical imaging, microwave photonics and terahertz photonics.
The late Douglas M. Johnston, Professor Emeritus (law), and his book The Historical Foundations of World Order: The Tower and the Arena (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) won the American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship.
Anne McHale, fourth-year business student, recently took third place in a sustainability video contest for the 2010 Olympics. Her video “Close the Loop” won in the u-reduce/u-produce category. McHale, who is enrolled in the entrepreneurship specialization, created the video as an assignment for Dr. Monika Winn’s COM 362 course, “Decision Making for Responsible and Sustainable Global Business.” Her challenge was to make a creative link between business, responsibility and sustainability. View the video »
There’s a shiny silver glow to UVic’s redesigned website (uvic.ca) which has won silver in the Best Institutional Homepage category in the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education’s 2009 Prix d’Excellence awards. Congratulations to project manager Robin Sutherland and his web team in UVic Communications, and participants from University Marketing, Web Services Office, Student Recruitment and others across campus, who were instrumental in the project’s success. Project sponsors were UVic vice-presidents Jamie Cassels, Gayle Gorrill and Valerie Kuehne. CCAE is the professional association for educational advancement professionals.
Dr. Wolff-Michael Roth, Lansdowne Professor in Applied Cognitive Science (curriculum and instruction) has been selected and inducted as a fellow of the American Educational Research Association in recognition of exceptional contributions to educational research.
Stephen Hume (writing) is the winner of a BC Book Prize (http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/) for his book Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia. This is the second time that Hume has won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize category. As one of the co-authors of A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming, he shared the 2005 prize. The journalist and poet has also won more than a dozen awards for his poetry, essays and journalism, including the Writers Guild of Alberta Literary Award, the Southam President’s Award and the Marjorie Nichols Memorial Award. More »
Dr. Ulf Schuetze (Germanic and Slavic studies) has qualified for the Triathlon World Championships to be held in Queensland, Australia, in September. After a great showing at the national championships in Kelowna last year, Schuetze, an amateur, will compete alongside elite, professional athletes in Queensland.
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