MBA Challenge Donates $7K to Nanaimo Child Development Centre
October 7, 2014
A friendly and highly competitive challenge between three student teams in Vancouver Island University’s (VIU) Master of Business Administration program resulted in bragging rights for one and a cheque for $7,073 delivered to the Nanaimo Child Development Centre (NCDC). “This is a challenge we’ve been running for five years now, and it continues to grow in the community,” said Dave Woodward, MBA... Read more
Campus 'Opens Wide' for VIU Open House Oct. 3
October 2, 2014
Vancouver Island University’s (VIU) Nanaimo campus is open wide from 10 am to 5 pm tomorrow, Oct. 3 for the annual VIU Open House. There’s something to do in virtually every corner of VIU – including a visit to VIU’s Dental Clinic in Building 180, Room 560, where students in the Dental Hygiene and Dental Assistant program will let you know that “Healthy Smiles Start Here.” Take away lots of... Read more
Counting down to VIU Open House on Friday!
September 30, 2014
The countdown is on for Vancouver Island University’s (VIU) Open House at the Nanaimo campus, coming up this Friday, October 3 from 10 am to 5 pm. Faculty, students and staff across the campus are getting ready to throw open the doors of classrooms, laboratories, lecture halls, trades shops and research spaces, where everyone will be welcome to experience university life in Nanaimo. A fantastic... Read more
VIU Philosophers' Cafe ponders deep questions about topical issues
September 26, 2014
Community drop-in forum promotes discussion and friendly debate NANAIMO, BC: Do you love an intelligent and passionate discussion about life’s deep questions? Everyone is welcome to attend Vancouver Island University’s popular Philosophers' Cafe. This free drop-in Café for community members at Mrs. Riches restaurant in downtown Nanaimo offers a speaker who delivers a ten-minute talk on a... Read more
Build a Birdhouse at VIU Open House Oct. 3
September 26, 2014
Learn about all the amazing things that Vancouver Island University (VIU) has to offer at the VIU Open House at the Nanaimo campus Friday, October 3 from 10 am to 5 pm. There’s something to do in virtually every corner of VIU – including a chance to build a birdhouse for your feathered friends. If you’re all thumbs, you’ll get hands-on help from students and instructors in the Carpentry program... Read more
VIU Invites Community to Open House Oct. 3
September 24, 2014
Build a birdhouse, meet a high tech health care robot, watch First Nations carvers create a totem pole, learn to prep veggies like a CHOPPED pro, and see a giant fish right out of the Jurassic era. These are just a few of the things – plus a lot more – that residents can experience and discover at Vancouver Island University’s (VIU) Open House on Friday, October 3 from 10 am to 5 pm “VIU is... Read more
Kathy Page Nominated for Giller Prize
September 19, 2014
Author Kathy Page, who teaches emerging writers in Vancouver Island University’s (VIU) Creative Writing and Journalism department, has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Page’s short story collection, Paradise and Elsewhere, was named to the 2014 Giller longlist of 12 Canadian books of fiction. Page is best known as a novelist, and has also written scripts for radio, television... Read more
Construction Students Working on New Aboriginal School
September 17, 2014
Instructor Jessie Magee-Chalmers (white hardhat, foreground right) works with Vancouver Island University (VIU) Construction program students on the new cedar exterior of the Nanaimo Boys and Girls Club building on Fifth Street in Nanaimo. The multi-use building will soon welcome children to the new Nesi’ka Kum’tuks Elementary Centre, the first off-reserve Aboriginal school in BC. The school... Read more
War and its Consequences Theme of Fall Colloquium Series
September 15, 2014
Now in its sixth year, a popular series of presentations by Arts and Humanities faculty at Vancouver Island University (VIU) will kick off Friday, Sept. 19. “As 2014 is the centennial of the outbreak of WWI, our three fall presentations in VIU’s Arts and Humanities Colloquium series will touch on the theme of war and its consequences,” says Dr. Dawn Thompson, one of the faculty coordinating the... Read more
VIU Welcomes 38 Students to Youth in Care Tuition Waiver Program
September 10, 2014
Thirty-eight students starting the new post-secondary school year at Vancouver Island University (VIU) in September will benefit from the institution’s Youth in Care Tuition Waiver program. Heading into her third year of VIU’s Bachelor of Arts in Criminology program, Brittany Palmer said assistance from the Tuition Waiver has made it possible for her to complete her degree as she works toward... Read more