VIU Welcomes 38 Students to Youth in Care Tuition Waiver Program
September 10, 2014
Thirty-eight students starting the new post-secondary school year at Vancouver Island University (VIU) in September will benefit from the institution’s Youth in Care Tuition Waiver program. Heading into her third year of VIU’s Bachelor of Arts in Criminology program, Brittany Palmer said assistance from the Tuition Waiver has made it possible for her to complete her degree as she works toward... Read more
The High School at VIU offers enriching experience for students
August 18, 2014
Rebecca Leigh jumped at the chance to complete her high school education in a non-traditional way. While many of her peers enrolled in the public school system, she enrolled in The High School at Vancouver Island University (VIU) located on the Nanaimo campus, completing grades 11 and 12 with a cohort of classmates from around the world. “It was life-changing,” says Leigh, who has since... Read more
Timberwest Donates Cedar Trees to VIU Totem Pole Project
August 13, 2014
Two cedar trees harvested in the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations territory on Vancouver Island’s west coast have been donated by TimberWest to Vancouver Island University’s (VIU) totem pole project. The donated cedars were delivered by the Island-based forest company to VIU’s G.R. Paine Horticultural Training Centre on East Wellington Road, where they were blessed by members of the Nuu-chah-nulth... Read more
Milner Gardens & Woodland brings art and photography to the garden
August 7, 2014
Twenty-six local artists will participate in the annual Art & Photography in the Garden event at Milner Gardens & Woodland in Qualicum Beach on August 9 and 10. “This is a wonderful opportunity for residents and tourists alike to wander through our exquisite seaside garden estate, and mingle with 26 local artists while they work,” says Geoff Ball, Executive Director of Vancouver Island... Read more
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