TAKE THE TREE DECORATING CHALLENGE IN 2013 FESTIVAL OF TREES
October 18, 2013
Imagine the magical moment when the twinkle lights go on, decorations sparkle, and the crowd applauds as your team’s Christmas tree is illuminated for the first time in VIU’s 19th Annual Festival of Trees. “We’re inviting community groups, organizations and businesses throughout Nanaimo to enter the TD Community Tree Decorating Challenge this year,” says Jason Nelson, chair of the Festival of... Read more
GO! ISLAND PREVIEWS VIU OPEN HOUSE
October 17, 2013
Go! Island host Kait Burgan took a tour at VIU’s Nanaimo campus this week to provide some highlights to expect in VIU’s Open House on Friday, Oct. 18 from 1 to 6 p.m. Take a sneak peak with Kait at Fisheries and Aquaculture’s touch tank, see how a Chemistry experiment goes off with a big bang, head behind-the-scenes with Theatre students at Malaspina Theatre as they prep for their upcoming... Read more
FREE PUBLIC LECTURE ON LEADING POWELL RIVER TO PROSPERITY
October 16, 2013
Residents are invited to an evening of stimulating thought and discussion as Vancouver Island University’s (VIU) Powell River campus hosts two visiting scholars from VIU’s World Leisure Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Leisure Management. Dr. Nicole Vaugeois, a VIU Tourism professor and BC’s regional Innovation Chair in Tourism and Sustainable Rural Development, and Dr. Katherine King,... Read more
DISCOVER TRADES DURING VIU OPEN HOUSE OCT. 18
October 16, 2013
Interested in learning more about a lucrative career in Trades? Vancouver Island University is hosting a “Discover Trades” event at the Nanaimo campus as part of the University’s campus wide Open House on Friday, Oct. 18. “Parents, teachers, students and anyone else in the community interested in Trades and technical training programs and job opportunities are invited to attend two panel... Read more
AWARD-WINNING CANADIAN POET AND NOVELIST MICHAEL CRUMMY READS AT VIU OCT. 24
October 15, 2013
Literature-lovers are invited to enjoy an evening with Michael Crummey, the 2013 Gustafson Distinguished Poet Chair, who will read selections from Under the Keel , his first poetry collection in a decade. The free public lecture entitled “Burn Barrel: Surviving Poetry in the 21st Century” will take place at VIU’s Nanaimo campus on Thursday, Oct. 24 at 7:30 pm in the auditorium of Building 355.... Read more
VIU NURSING STUDENTS’ PROJECT ADDRESSES HOMELESSNESS STIGMA
October 15, 2013
Five Vancouver Island University students in their final year of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program are interested in doing all they can to reduce the stigma that homeless people encounter. And they want to learn more about how the role of a nurse practitioner can impact the health of the homeless. The five students, Marnie Squires, Sophie Minette-Crow, Mark Mohun-Smith, Josh Mabey... Read more
VIU GEOGRAPHY STUDENTS HELP SHAPE FUTURE OF BC COMMUNITIES
October 11, 2013
Geography students at Vancouver Island University (VIU) are helping to shape the future of BC communities. Students in Dr. Pam Shaw’s geography classes are engaged in a study designed to revitalize an important historical neighbourhood in Campbell River. Shaw’s students have also assisted the City of Nanaimo with the Harewood Neighbourhood Plan project, and helped craft Official Community... Read more
VIU PROFESSOR SHARES TALES FROM HIS JOURNEY TO ANTARCTICA
October 9, 2013
Jay Ruzesky, a professor in VIU’s English department, was raised on cold Canadian winters and stories of his famous ancestor, Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who first discovered the South Pole in December 1911. Ruzesky felt a kinship to Amundsen as a young man, and set upon dreaming of his own journey to the Pole one day. One hundred years after his ancestor’s discovery, Professor... Read more
TRAVEL AND LEARN IN 2014 WITH VIU’S EUROPEAN FIELD SCHOOLS
October 4, 2013
Vancouver Island University has announced Study Abroad programs for 2014 that include opportunities for the public to join students in learning about art, history, architecture and culture in several of Europe’s most beautiful and interesting cities. The 2014 Study Abroad destinations open to public participation include field schools with the Liberal Studies Department in Italy and Turkey;... Read more
VIU INVITES COMMUNITY TO CAMPUS-WIDE OPEN HOUSE OCT. 18
October 3, 2013
FOR A FULL SCHEDULE OF OPEN HOUSE ACTIVITIES GO TO Ever wanted to get up close and personal with a 200 pound sturgeon, watch a chemical concoction explode, operate a mini-excavator, or add your creative flair to a communal art collage? Or what about attending a stimulating free public lecture, observing an informative university class, discovering the fossils of Vancouver Island, or finding... Read more