News Stories
What is Happening to the Children?
October 17, 2018
By Aly Winks People who experience childhood trauma often describe the event as life-changing, and rarely for the better. Research suggests that early intervention after such events can make all the difference in a young person’s life. That’s where VIU Child and Youth Care students and faculty hope to make an impact. British Columbia is currently in the middle of a medical health crisis... Read more
Research @VIU: The Messages in the Medium
October 17, 2018
Every year, faculty and students at VIU go out into communities to participate in research that is having significant impacts on the region as well as giving students important experiential learning opportunities. Here are a few projects they engaged in this year. Project three of five. Historians can tell a lot about how people were thinking, feeling and living during a certain time period by... Read more
Research @VIU: Cultural Geography Students Investigate Perceptions of Bio-Diesel
October 17, 2018
Every year, faculty and students at VIU go out into communities to participate in research that is having significant impacts on the region as well as giving students important experiential learning opportunities. Here are a few projects they engaged in this year. Project four of five. What stops a person from adopting a change in their business operations, and what factors could convince... Read more
Research @VIU: Homemade Tourism: The Artisan Economy
October 17, 2018
Every year, faculty and students at VIU go out into communities to participate in research that is having significant impacts on the region as well as giving students important experiential learning opportunities. Here are a few projects they engaged in this year. Project five of five. From microbrews and ciders to handmade jewelry and pottery, the re-emergence of the artisan economy... Read more
Research @VIU: Helping Salmon and Sturgeon Survive Rising River Temperatures
October 17, 2018
Every year, faculty and students at VIU go out into communities to participate in research that is having significant impacts on the region as well as giving students important experiential learning opportunities. Here are a few projects they engaged in this year - project one of five. Climate change is having devastating effects on species around the world. In North America, where... Read more
Research @VIU: Working Where the Devil Dances
October 17, 2018
Every year, faculty and students at VIU go out into communities to participate in research that is having significant impacts on the region as well as giving students important experiential learning opportunities. Here are a few projects they engaged in this year. Project two of five. Firefighting can be an intense, stressful job. Of the 14,000 people who do this important, life-saving... Read more
VIU Professor Receives NSERC Discovery Grant for Endangered Species Research
October 9, 2018
What consequences are there to a species when it is on the brink of extinction, then re-populated through captive breeding? This question is one Vancouver Island University (VIU) Biology Professor Dr. Jamie Gorrell is at the forefront of discovering an answer to through his research with the Island marmot population. “By studying the success of reintroductions we will learn how... Read more
VIU's Canada Research Chair Focused on "Future Proofing" Shellfish
May 9, 2018
Dr. Timothy Green will be CRC Research Chair in Shellfish Health and Genomics Climate change is one of the biggest threats to shellfish populations and sustainable shellfish farming in Canada and worldwide. In British Columbia, ocean acidification caused by climate change is recognized as a key threat. That’s one reason why Dr. Timothy Green, Vancouver Island University’s (VIU’s) new Canada... Read more
VIU Press Launches First Book
March 16, 2018
Adjunct Professor Michael A. von Hausen pens Small is Big, a guide to revitalizing small- and mid-size downtowns Vancouver Island University (VIU) Press celebrated an important milestone this week with the launch of its first book. This special honour goes to Small is Big: Making the Next Great Small to Mid-Size Downtowns by Michael A. von Hausen, a leading Canadian urban designer and planner... Read more
Plastic Ocean
January 8, 2018
By Rachel Stern Scientists don't fully understand the impacts of microplastics on ecosystems, and VIU faculty and students are on the cutting edge of research on the issue. A rising tide of plastics are floating in the world’s waterways and amongst the debris is a hidden pollutant — microplastics. Microplastics are smaller than five millimetres, but most are indiscernible to the human... Read more