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Dr. Cecilia Benoit (sociology) is a recipient of a 2010 BC Community Achievement Award. “Cecilia Benoit has improved the content and delivery of programs for people in her community who are outside the mainstream,” reads the award citation. “Her research with at-risk youth, pregnant women with substance use issues and sex workers has found widespread application and benefits.” Benoit is the only award winner from Victoria.
Dr. John Lutz (history) is the winner of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2010 Harold Adams Innis award for the best English-language work in the social sciences. He won the award for his book Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations in which he explains how Canada’s Aboriginal people fell from prosperity to poverty and the origins of the myth of the “lazy Indian.” Noreen Golfman, president of the federation says, “John Lutz’s book challenges our ways of thinking about the history of relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.”
Dr. Chris Barnes is the winner of the 2010 Logan Medal from the Geological Association of Canada in recognition of his “sustained distinguished achievement in Canadian earth science.” Barnes, a marine paleontologist, is project director of NEPTUNE Canada, the world’s largest cabled ocean observatory. He led earth sciences departments at the University of Waterloo and Memorial University and served as director general of the sedimentary and marine branch in the Geological Survey of Canada before joining UVic’s School of Earth and Ocean Sciences in 1989. He headed the school from 1991–2002.
Dr. Paul Bramadat (Centre for Studies in Religion and Society), Dr. Avigail Eisenberg (political science), Dr. Benjamin Berger (law) and Dr. Rebecca Johnson (law) are part of a team of 36 researchers from around the globe who will spend the next seven years delving into the role of religion in an evolving society such as Canada. The Religion and Diversity Project will seek to identify the contours of religious diversity in Canada and the potential benefits of approaches to diversity that promote substantive or deep equality and move beyond tolerance and accommodation.
Dr. Zhongping Chen (history), Dr. Greg Blue (history) and Ying Liu (library), join a team of international researchers investigating the rise and development of the Indian Ocean region, including Eastern Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and the emerging superpowers of China and India. “The Indian Ocean World: The Making of the First Global Economy in the Context of Human-Environment Interaction” is the first large-scale attempt to investigate and analyze how environmental factors, including natural disasters, influenced human society in the Indian Ocean World and how human activities changed the environmental conditions. It will also address how the human-environmental interaction led to the rise of the first global economy.
Brian Cheng, UVic women’s basketball coach, was awarded Coach of the Year honours from both Canadian Interuniversity Sport and CanadaWest and led the team to their best season in a decade, finishing 14-4 in CanWest play.
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