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(Relatively) new faculty member survey
UVic master’s student in kinesiology Megan Kirk is conducting an online survey on the health behaviours and patterns of physical activity among Canadian young professionals entering their career as new faculty members within the past five years. The survey should take no more than 15 minutes to complete. Survey. Info: megan@uvic.ca
Mobile recycling depot
comes to UVic
Beginning March 13 and every second Saturday for three months, UVic will become a new neighbourhood location of the Pacific Mobile Depots. From 9 a.m. to noon in Lot #7 near the TEF Building, you can drop off many recyclables, including styrofoam, soft and rigid plastics and many electronics for a nominal fee.
More about the depot.
How can UVic Libraries
serve you better?
From Feb. 8 to March 5, UVic Libraries will conduct another installment of LibQUAL+™ to survey a random sample of UVic students and faculty. LibQUAL+™ is a web-based survey developed by the Association of Research Libraries for academic libraries throughout the world, designed to assess student and faculty satisfaction with library services, facilities and resources. Participants may enter their email address in a draw for two $200 UVic Bookstore gift certificates. More about survey.
Last chance to register for diversity research forum
What does research look like outside the traditional academic model? Find out as some of UVic’s most community-engaged researchers come together Feb. 11 and 12 for Critical Conversations III: International, Indigenous, Intersectional, the third annual diversity research forum. The conference is free and open to UVic students, faculty, staff and community members. Pre-registration is required. Keynote addresses by UVic’s Budd Hall, Lorna Williams and Christine O’Bonsawin will be webcast live. Program and registration; info: 250-721-6143 or multi@uvic.ca; conference Twitter feed: #critcon2010
New information management policies now online
In January, amendments were made to the university’s information management policies and procedures in three areas: protection of privacy, records management and information security. Thank you to all who provided comments and feedback during the consultation process.
More online.
Hike and bike local
railroad rights-of-way
Want to get your exercise and explore local railroad history at the same time? Then you’ll be glad to know the definitive guidebook is now back in print. Penned and first published in 2001 by Ian Baird (libraries) and Dr. Peter Smith (Greek and Roman Studies, who died in 2006), Ghosts on the Grade: Hiking and Biking Abandoned Railways on Southern Vancouver Island is once again available at the UVic Bookstore and other fine local bookstores.
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