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VIU Media Highlights: January 18 - 29, 2021

February 1, 2021 - 5:15pm

A bi-weekly roundup of VIU in the News.

NEWS STORIES

Top Performing article for the last two weeks:

A VIU News Release: VIU Culinary Arts Student Cooking for Gold (featuring Culinary Arts student Ottis Crabbe) was picked up by CBC All Points West, Nanaimo Magazine, reddit, Ha-Shilth-Sa story reprinted by CTV News, The Vancouver Star, Yahoo News Canada, Canadian Pizza Magazine, Welland Tribune and CFAX 1070.

Reach: 21 million just on the Ha-Shilth-Sa story.

Other stories:

BC Government News: Province Funds Community Mental Health Worker Program. Picked up by Black Press sites across BC, the Times Colonist, Kamloops me, CFAX 1070 Radio and Oceanside News, among others.
BC Government News: Training More Health-care Assistants to Support BC Seniors (VIU’s HCA program funded for 72 seats). Picked up by Prince George Matters, Nation Talk, Nanaimo News Now.
CBC News: UPEI Writer-in-Residence to Help Students Tell Their Stories from Afar (featuring Creative Writing Professor Jay Ruzesky).
Chemainus Valley Courier and Nanaimo Bulletin: VIU volleyball athlete doubles fundraising goal for Parkinson’s(featuring student athlete Danielle Groenendijk).
Nanaimo News Now: VIU Expects Budget Deficit Amid Diminished International Student Revenue (featuring Provost Dr. Carol Stuart).
Parksville Qualicum Beach News: Acrylic Artists Display Work in Qualicum Beach (featuring VIU alum Nicole Shaw).
The Terrace Standard: Billie Davis, a VIU Visual Arts student, received an honourable mention for the Nisga’a Museum’s 2020 Aspiring Artist Award.
Toronto Star: Researchers Study Pandemic Schooling and Children’s Mental Health (featuring Psychology student Tara Cooper and Psychology Professor Dr. Marla Morden).
VIU Blog: Voices – Reflections on Summer (featuring poems and stories by attendees of They’she’num Tu Smun’eem: Building a Foundation for our Youth summer camp. Picked up by Nation Talk.
VIU News Release: Grant Funds Prototype of Resilience Education Video Game (featuring HHS Professor Dr. Leigh Blaney). Picked up by Education News Canada, Nanaimo Magazine.
VIU News Release: VIU Nursing Professor Receives Financial Support to Continue Resilience Research. Picked up by Education News Canada, Targeted News Service, Oceanside News.
VIU News Release: VIU Professor Assesses Leisure in the Time of a Pandemic. Picked up by Education News Canada.
VIU News Release: VIU Shines Light on Inequities During Global Citizens Week. Picked up by Education News Canada.
VIU News Release: VIU Faculty Create Understanding Through Colloquium Lectures. Picked up by Nation Talkand Education News Canada.

TOP PERFORMING BROADCAST STORY:

CTV News’s video story of VIU Culinary Arts student Ottis Crabbe (see top print story), who won a spot on Junior Culinary Team Canada, reached 1.51 million people

SOCIAL MEDIA

Top Tweet: A post about VIU joining the Mastercard Foundation’s Young Africa Works program earned 8,424 impressions.

Top Facebook post: A shout-out to Kimberly Watson, a Master of Education in Special Education student, who received a BC Graduate Scholarship, was seen by almost 4,000 people.