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VIU students to create the world’s largest Nanaimo bar

May 8, 2025 - 01:06pm

Sandy Shultz

VIU Welcomes Award-winning Researcher and Neuroscientist

March 8, 2022 - 11:00am

Nanaimo Hospice Dream Home

VIU Carpentry Program Partners With Nanaimo Hospice to Help Create Dream Home

March 7, 2022 - 03:00pm

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VIU Media Highlights: February 8 – 28, 2022

March 4, 2022 - 11:00am

Misha Zvekic stands in a garden at VIU's Nanaimo campus.

Microplastics Exposed to Sunlight Can Change their Behaviour in the Environment

March 1, 2022 - 11:30am

Emmerson Pollard

VIU Psychology Student Researching Stress, Resilience in Romantic Relationships of Firefighters

February 28, 2022 - 01:00pm

VIU Employee Engagement Survey Results information session recording

February 28, 2022 - 11:45am

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MyVIU student news: May 7, 2025

May 7, 2025

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Sheldon Scow, coordinator of VIU’s Community Cousins program, gifts a scarf to Garifuna elder Emily Palacio, director of the Hand in Hand program in Belmopan, Belize.

Indigenous peer mentors join international cooperation project

May 1, 2023 By Eric Zimmer

A new initiative at the University of Belize is taking its inspiration from VIU’s Community Cousins program.

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Taking his culinary skills to global competitions

April 25, 2023 By Eric Zimmer

Ottis Crabbe shares his story

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A community-based approach to post-secondary education

April 24, 2023

VIU’s Cowichan campus offers Q’ushin’tul

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5 Questions about university transfers

April 23, 2023 By Christine Johnson

...and how to streamline the process

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VIU Student Pulse: April 19, 2023

April 19, 2023

Summer jobs and scholarship info 🎒

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Living the agrarian life

April 13, 2023

English Professor Dr. Toni Smith’s experiences with the back-to-the-land movement

Statements & Announcements

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VIU Receives Funding to Expand Nursing Seats

February 22, 2022 - 01:30pm

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VIU’s Theatre Department Presents an Adaptation of Durrenmatt’s Play – The Visitor

February 22, 2022 - 10:30am

Griffin Prize-Winning Poet A.F. Moritz to Give VIU Gustafson Lecture and Reading

February 17, 2022 - 09:30am

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VIU’s View Gallery presents Jim Holyoak: Arborescence

February 10, 2022 - 09:00am

VIU BC Top Employer 2022

VIU Receives BC Top Employer Award for third year in a row

February 8, 2022 - 01:45pm

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VIU Media Highlights: January 24 - February 7, 2022

February 7, 2022 - 12:15pm

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