Memorial Scholarship established in memory of Leo Tak-Cheung Chan
Intelligent, enthusiastic and passionate are just some of the words that describe UVic political science student Leo Chan, who died Jan. 18 of meningococcal disease. On a memorial website, students, friends and professors at UVic also comment on his winning smile and unbounded curiosity about life. “He was passionate in his convictions yet never inflexible or dogmatic. He was a student who inspired his teachers,” said one professor.
Mosqoy: Two Dreams on Two Continents
“Mosqoy means dream in English. Dream,” says Elvira Huaman Guerra, speaking with the aid of a translator. The 22-year-old from Tanccac, Peru, is one of the two student ambassadors from the Sacred Valley now studying English at UVic’s English Language Centre, supported by the Mosqoy Foundation, which has very strong connections with UVic.
Co-op Students of the Year celebrated for accomplishments in 2011
Three outstanding UVic co-op students have been named “Co-op student of the year” by their respective co-op program areas.
Biology co-op students study raccoons in unorthodox "office"
Instead of a cubicle, Thomas Diesch and Ashley Currie call the picturesque Gulf Islands their office. Instead of choosing between the stairs or the elevator, they take a Zodiac to get to work. And instead of pushing paper, they trap raccoons, document songbirds and pluck crabs out of the ocean.
MFA grad wins Writers' Trust prize
Garth Martens is now $5,000 richer, thanks to his first-place poetry win in the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. A construction worker by day, the 28-year-old Department of Writing MFA graduate was announced on April 5 as the winner out of 120 submissions for "Inheritance and Other Poems," a selection from The Motive of Machines, his work-in-progress manuscript.
2010/11 Undergraduate Research Scholar: Sinead Charbonneau
For this research project, I conducted a discursive analysis of mainstream media coverage of the murder of an Indigenous woman in Victoria in February 2009, studying reports of this event from the time of her death through to her trial in the winter of 2011.
2010/11 Undergraduate Research Scholar: Skye Augustine
Historically First Nations people constructed clam gardens to augment food supplies. I explored the opportunities and challenges of building a clam garden in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve). I investigated the biophysical parameters, the socio-cultural interests of the Hul'qumi'num people and the implications for park management.
2010/11 Undergraduate Research Scholar: Keith Johnstone
Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecological malignancy, accounting for more deaths than cervical and endometrial cancers combined. Chemotherapy resistance is a common occurrence in ovarian cancer and contributes substantially to the high mortality associated with this disease. Autophagy, a cellular self-degradation mechanism that allows normal cells and cancer cells to survive periods of stress, has been shown to contribute to chemotherapy resistance in other types of cancer. Autophagy’s role in chemotherapy resistance in ovarian cancer is largely unexplored.
2010/11 Undergraduate Research Scholar: Heshan Fernando
Some drawbacks of current wind turbines are that they are expensive to manufacture, they need to be built on a very large scale to produce a decent amount of power, and they need to be placed on very tall towers to take advantage of higher wind speeds at high altitudes.
Vikes athletes honoured
The UVic Vikes presented their major awards and honoured three new inductees into the UVic Sports Hall of Fame March 24 at the Victoria Conference Centre.

 Women’s field hockey player Perri Espeseth won the President’s Cup, awarded to a student-athlete in their fourth or fifth year who best combines scholastic achievement and athletic ability. The leading goal scorer in the Canada West and with the Vikes, Espeseth was a 2010 CIS first-team All-Canadian and Canada West first-team all-star and was named to the CIS national championship tournament all-star team.
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