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January intake

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Curious Minds

- June 28, 2024 by Rachel Stern
Frances Kelsey’s battle against birth defect causing drug thalidomide profiled in new book

VIU History Professor Dr. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh publishes biography on pioneering physician’s work
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- May 8, 2024 by Dr. Greg Arkos
Chasing the total solar eclipse

Dr. Greg Arkos travels to Mexico to view the spectacular natural event
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- May 2, 2024
How has VIU’s Portal magazine evolved over the years?

Joy Gugeler explores evolution from chapbook to national magazine
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- April 29, 2024
Using an Ojibwe lens to examine Margaret Atwood’s novel MaddAddam

Bryn Skibo advocates the value of Indigenous ways of knowing in academic discourse
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- April 19, 2024
Bad Leaders, Bad Followers: Threats to democracy we don't talk about enough

An edition of the Engaged Citizens Speaker Series
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- March 30, 2024 by Dr. Evan Hoffman, VIU Faculty of Management Professor
Learning about leading

Why your organization should join a reading circle
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- February 24, 2024
Who was Israel Wood Powell?

Examining the origins of settler colonial rule in British Columbia
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- December 21, 2023
How is failure valuable?

Dr. Mike Roberson shares three perspectives on the value of failure
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- December 12, 2023
How were special effects created before electricity and cameras?

Leon Potter takes people behind the curtain to learn about theatre magic
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- December 8, 2023
How are contemporary feminisms negotiated in TV comedies?

Comedies allow people to talk about taboo topics
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