Visual Art Students selected for One of a Kind Art Show
November 13, 2008
Visual art students from Vancouver Island University (VIU) have been selected to display and sell their work at the One of Kind Show at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver Nov. 20 - 23rd. “The One of a Kind show is a massive and hugely popular sale of original art and craft work by over 200 different artists from Vancouver to Washington and beyond,” said Gregory Ball, Chair of VIU’s Visual Arts... Read more
VIU students educate others about climate change
November 10, 2008
Students at Vancouver Island University want to motivate, inspire and educate their high school peers to be proactive about climate change. Fourth year Fisheries and Aquaculture student Carol Bob is the driving force behind VIU’s new student Chemistry Club and it’s ancillary group, of Awareness of Climate Change through Education (ACE). ACE has developed a 40-minute PowerPoint presentation for... Read more
Governor General's Award Winner reads at VIU’s Poets on Campus
November 10, 2008
Vancouver Island University’s Poets on Campus reading series is offering a rare chance to see Joe Rosenblatt, an award-winning poet whose career has spanned four decades. Rosenblatt will read at 4 pm, Monday, November 17, 2008, in the Library Writing Centre (fourth floor of the library, building 305) at the Nanaimo campus. "Joe Rosenblatt is a wordster, trickster, shape-changer. He's also a... Read more
History students commemorate Canadian war experiences
November 7, 2008
Vancouver Island University History students will commemorate the Canadian war experience by reading letters from Canadian soldiers at a Remembrance Celebration Monday, Nov. 10 at the Nanaimo campus. The reception takes place at 2 pm in the Royal Arbutus Room and members of the public are invited to attend. The letters come from The Canadian Letters & Images Project collection, a unique on-... Read more
Former Dean receives Honorary Doctorate from VIU
November 7, 2008
When Carol Matthews looks back on her years of service to Vancouver Island University, it’s the relationships that bring back the strongest memories. To honour her more than 20 years of outstanding commitment, Matthews will receive an Honorary Doctorate Degree at the VIU convocation ceremony at the Port Theatre on December 12, 2008. “It was both a surprise and a great honour when I was told I... Read more
VIU alumnus’s ceramics career firing up
November 4, 2008
VIU graduate Brendan Tang is enjoying a hot ceramics career. Recently named "Emerging artist" by Ceramics Monthly, Tang was one of the presenters at October’s 1000 Miles Apart, a Western Canadian ceramics conference, shortly after returning from a three month artist’s residency at the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana. Tang’s series "Manga Ormolu" explores the modern realities of a world in... Read more
Review - Mill's Utilitarianism
November 3, 2008
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VIU rolls out the welcome mat
October 30, 2008
New university will put its best foot forward to try and gain CIS acceptance By Craig Slater, The Daily News Published: Thursday, October 30, 2008 Company's coming to town. This isn't just any old friend or long lost acquaintance, either. It's family. Well, in Bruce Hunter's eyes, he'd like to be considered family one day soon. For two days at the end of next week, the Vancouver Island... Read more
VIU student helps disabled anglers
October 30, 2008
After four years, a project to help people in wheelchairs fish at Long Lake is complete. Brad Durvin's four-year dream of building a wheelchair-accessible fishing dock on Long Lake became a reality Thursday. The Vancouver Island University aquaculture studies student said he was “delighted" to have the approximately $11,000 floating dock, located in Loudon Park, finally open to the public. "... Read more
Study abroad students share "life-changing" stories
October 29, 2008
Lindsay Kruit and Mike Boomer see the world through different eyes. That’s because they lived and worked in south west Uganda, learning about the challenges faced by individuals and organizations in an underdeveloped, poverty-stricken rural region. “The experience was unequivocally life changing,” said Kruit, a fourth year student in Vancouver Island University's (VIU) Economics and Global... Read more