Flamenco guitarist Eric Harper set to perform soul-stirring music July 24
July 18, 2014
Award-winning Flamenco guitarist Eric Harper is the next performer July 24 in the Deep Bay Marine Field Station’s summer Music by the Bay concert series in Bowser. Harper's music is described as "melodically entrancing, virtuosically ferocious and harmonically soul-stirring to the core." Among other achievements, Harper has co-scored Kevin Spacey’s movie entitled Inseparable, worked closely... Read more
Parksville Student Receives $5,000 Pieter de Reuver Foundation Award
July 18, 2014
Parksville resident and Vancouver Island University (VIU) student Connie Graham will enter her third year towards a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and First Nations Studies with the help of a $5,000 Scholarship of Excellence from the Pieter de Reuver Foundation. “It’s a really hefty scholarship, enough to cover my tuition for a full year plus at least one semester’s worth of books,”... Read more
VIU Music Professor Composing Jazz Suites
July 11, 2014
Greg Bush will head back to Vancouver Island University (VIU) in September with some brand new music for his students to play in their Jazz Studies classes. As a Jazz Studies professor teaching trumpet, composition and arranging, Bush said it’s been a pleasure to work on his own compositions during a half-year leave assisted by the University. Before classes start at VIU this fall, Bush will... Read more
VIU's Founding President Carl Opgaard Remembered
July 9, 2014
Dr. Carl Opgaard arrived in Nanaimo with his young family in February 1969 to begin his role as founding president of Malaspina College (now Vancouver Island University), beginning a decade of leadership fundamental to building and growing the institution from its first 700 students that year to the 17,000 students who attend today. Opgaard, who died on July 6, 2014 in Tacoma, Washington at age... Read more
Phil Dwyer Kicks Off Summer Concert Series at Deep Bay Marine Field Station July 10
July 4, 2014
Juno award winning musician Phil Dwyer and his Adult Jazz Intensive Ensemble will deliver a final local public performance to kick off the summer Music by the Bay concert series at the Deep Bay Marine Field Station in Bowser on July 10. Dwyer, who has made his home in Qualicum Beach for the last 10 years, is relocating to New Brunswick to study law. For his final local show, Dwyer will be... Read more
VIU Paddlers Depart on Tribal Journeys 2014
June 27, 2014
A group of 29 faculty, staff, students and community members representing Vancouver Island University (VIU) are making final preparations to set out from Nanaimo’s Departure Bay Saturday, June 28 on a three-week canoe journey as participants in Tribal Journeys (Qatuwas) 2014. Their final destination is the First Nations community of Bella Bella, located on an island off the BC mainland. As hosts... Read more
New Vice-President, Administration and Finance at VIU
June 25, 2014
Vancouver Island University is pleased to announce the appointment of Shelley Legin as Vice-President, Administration and Finance, effective August 11, 2014. Legin comes to VIU with 25 years of progressive management experience within the public and co-operative sectors in western Canada. She joins VIU from Vancouver-based MNP, and also as an independent consultant in both post-secondary and... Read more
Grey Whale Exhibit One Step Closer as Remains Exhumed From Beecher Bay
June 12, 2014
The once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to assemble 145 bones of a 10-metre long, 20-plus tonne gray whale into a world class exhibit at Vancouver Island University’s (VIU) Deep Bay Marine Field Station is now one step closer with the recovery of the bones this past weekend. Photos and video documenting the whale exhumation process at Beecher Bay on June 7 was created by Station Manager Brian Kingzett... Read more
Milner Gardens & Woodland celebrates Fairy House Surprise June 20-22
June 12, 2014
The public is invited to attend a Fairy House Surprise event at Vancouver Island University's Milner Gardens & Woodland gardens in Qualicum Beach June 20 to 22. “The late Veronica Milner, former owner of the 70-acre estate that became Milner Gardens & Woodland, had an endearing belief in fairies," says Geoff Ball, Executive Director of Milner Gardens. "To celebrate that, as well as... Read more
Cedar Trees Donated to VIU for Totem Pole Project Receive Blessing
May 30, 2014
Nanaimo-based Island Timberlands donated the three cedar trees to the totem pole carving project initiated by the VIU Students’ Union (VIUSU). The trees were delivered to VIU Friday, May 30, with carving set to begin June 16. “Island Timberlands is pleased to be able to participate with VIU, the VIU Students’ Union, Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, the Métis Association of BC, the City of Nanaimo... Read more