VIU grad builds carpentry career
March 24, 2010
As a young boy, Luke Cuthbert enjoyed building things around the house. A life-long passion for carpentry and a lucrative career grew out of his childhood interest. Cuthbert started his carpentry apprenticeship while attending Cowichan Secondary School (CSS). One week shy of his 20th birthday, he graduated as a journeyman carpenter from Vancouver Island University’s fourth year Carpentry... Read more
Biggest Lugers earn medals, Poker Walk challenge is next
March 23, 2010
The 22 members of CCSensationals earned chocolate gold medals as winners of Campus Recreation’s Biggest Luger program. The six-week activity and nutrition-tracking program encouraged Vancouver Island University students and staff to compete by logging activity minutes and servings of fruit and vegetables. Based on their performance, competitors moved sleds down a model track installed in the VIU... Read more
Salt Spring Island artist to speak at VIU
March 22, 2010
Salt Spring Island artist John Macdonald will discuss his work at Vancouver Island University Thursday, March 25. The painter’s artwork is informed by a traditional as well as an avant-garde aesthetic. Like the Impressionists, there is immediacy to Macdonald’s large-scale canvases in which forms and figures captured in bold brush strokes reflect contemporary subjects and every day experiences.... Read more
Faith and faith
March 20, 2010
"Please excuse me if I use the "F" word often in this review. I realize that many people are afraid of that word and are disgusted by its frequent use in contemporary letters. Even tough-minded scientists like Jerry Coyne are quick to correct themselves if the "F" word sneaks out. In a recent Point of Inquiry podcast, Coyne, in talking about his book Why Evolution is True, says "most... Read more
VIU student to receive award from Prince Edward
March 18, 2010
Christopher Perrier-Evely will be among 100 young British Columbians to receive the Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award from Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, in Vancouver Friday (March 19). Perrier-Evely said it was exciting to find out last fall that rumours were true and a member of the Royal Family would be coming to British Columbia to hand out the top awards in the program that recognizes... Read more
Polish students share culture and identity at VIU March 17
March 17, 2010
Graduate students visiting Vancouver Island University from Poland will share their culture and identity with the public and VIU community during a free public presentation at the Nanaimo campus, library boardroom at 11:30 am March 17. The graduate students are from the University of Silesia in Poland. They arrived at VIU last week as part of a cultural exchange. Dr. Steve Lane, Dean of Arts of... Read more
VIU Fisheries and Aquaculture offers tours on World Water Day March 22
March 16, 2010
Vancouver Island University Fisheries and Aquaculture department is celebrating World Water Day on March 22 by offering tours of their sturgeon tanks and other fisheries facilities on the Nanaimo campus. Visitors will see a fish and invertebrate hatchery, tank farms for sturgeon and trout, warm water tropical fish hatchery and laboratory facilities. A look at VIU’s aquaponics system growing... Read more
Free lectures address issues of poverty near protected areas and parks
March 16, 2010
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Culinary prof rides to beat cancer
March 15, 2010
Culinary Arts instructor Debbie Shore is stepping out of the kitchen for the ride of her life. She started training for a 260-kilometre Ride to Conquer Cancer. The two-day trip, through Canada’s Pacific Northwest in June, is a fundraiser for cancer research. “I’m not an athlete,” said Shore, who teaches in the Culinary Arts program at Vancouver Island University. “I’m a chef who likes to eat. I... Read more
VIU grad pitches business idea to ‘dragons’
March 11, 2010
When Alex Casewa was completing a business degree at Vancouver Island University, he never imagined that one day he’d appear on national TV pitching a business idea to five multi-millionaires. That’s what happened when Casewa appeared on the popular CBC series Dragon’s Den last week, his moment in the spotlight to secure an investment for his business. Although Casewa walked away empty-handed,... Read more