*image from Christina Hunt's Vancouver Sun op/ed.
The prevalence of microplastics, what the new OneBC party platform promises, new ways of getting more affordable housing and more. VIU experts in the news over the past two weeks:
Analyzing OneBC
BC has a brand-new party – OneBC. Dr. Michael MacKenzie, VIU’s Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership, analyzes the new party’s offerings for The Tyee.
Teach about Marxism in this day and age? No way.
Dr. Michael MacKenzie, VIU’s Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership, writes about the “chill” the Trump administration is creating at universities, where teaching about subjects such as Marxism for the sake of examining his ideology would be risky. Read the op/ed.
Scholarship winner
Resource Management Officer Technology student Jayden Emery is one of five students to receive a scholarship from the North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre. Read about it in the PQB News.
How to create more affordable housing
Solving the housing shortage in BC may require rethinking long-held ideas on urban growth strategies, says Mark Holland, who teaches in VIU’s Master of Community Planning program. He spoke with MyCoastNow about different strategies for increasing the province’s stock of affordable housing.
Recognition for efforts to preserve Canadian war experience
A Vancouver Island University professor has received provincial recognition for more than 25 years of work to preserve the voices of soldiers who fought in Canada’s wars through the letters they sent home. Dr. Stephen Davies, Director of the Canadian Letters and Images Project, has been honoured with a provincial award of recognition from the British Columbia Historical Federation for the creation of the project which has scanned and digitized more than 40,000 letters sent home by Canadian soldiers. Read more in the Nanaimo News Bulletin.
Nanaimo bar world record challenged
VIU’s world record-setting Nanaimo bar is being challenged by Northwest Fudge Factory in Ontario. Chef Aron Weber said it best: “The main reason we did it was to highlight our program and students.” Read more in the Nanaimo News Bulletin or CHEK news.
VIU athletes excel in academics too
VIU has set a school record for most Academic All-Canadians in the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association – the most in BC and the most in the institution’s history. Read more in the Nanaimo News Bulletin.
Student becomes published op/ed writer
First-year Creative Writing student Christina Hunt published an op/ed about microplastics in the Vancouver Sun.
Alum in new football leadership role
VIU Master of Business Administration alum Pushpargha Chattopadhyay lands a position as General Secretary of the Guyana Football Federation. Read about his lengthy experience in football administration in the Guyana Chronicle.
Skipping to Japan for nationals
VIU Faculty of Education student teacher supervisor Elise Visentin makes the leap to Team Canada’s jump rope team. Read about it in Nanaimo News Now.
Alum pens book about potlatches
VIU Education alum Samantha Beynon has published a new children's book that explores Canada's ban on potlatches. The book release event was on June 21, National Indigenous Peoples Day, at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria. Read more via CBC News.
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