A team of students in Vancouver Island University’s Master of Business Administration program (MBA) representing 12 countries are in training to show off their mental and physical agility. They will represent VIU at the MBA National Games in Alberta Jan. 6 to... Thursday, December 15, 2011 | full story …
VIU researcher explores social media in science education
Vancouver Island University professor Dr. Rachel Moll is leading an international study to explore social media use in science education. Moll has received a two-year $50,000 grant from the Social Sciences Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to study how... Wednesday, December 14, 2011 | full story …
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Mining and Mineral Exploration instructor to coordinate research project with Geoscience BC
BCIT UPDATE Dr. Russell Hartlaub, P.Geo., will be leading an industry-focused geoscience research project for Geoscience BC ... Read more →
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read books | holiday reading sale, book ;aunch and party
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 7:00pm -
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 5:00pm
Join READ Books for some holiday cheer on Thursday December 15!
READ kicks off their annual holiday sale with a party to launch books by Elspeth Pratt and Catriona Jeffries Gallery, and a new READ edition by Neil Wedman. The Holiday Reading...
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VIU’s Development & Alumni Office launches exclusive new fundraising technology
VIU is now the only post-secondary institution in Canada using Mobio Quick Response codes as a fundraising tool. By downloading an app created by Mobio (www.getmobio.com), Smartphone users can scan VIU’s new QR codes and then, in less than a minute, make a donation... Wednesday, December 14, 2011 | full story …
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Kwantlen Announces Third Year of the Richmond Farm School
Kwantlen News
METRO VANCOUVER, BC – (December 13, 2011) – Kwantlen Polytechnic University and the Institute for Sustainable Horticulture, in cooperation with the Richmond Fruit Tree Sharing Project, the Richmond Food Security Society, City of Richmond and VanCity, are pleased to announce the third year of the Richmond...
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Advocate extraordinaire: Distinguished Alumni recognized for human rights work
UFV Today
By Anne Russell on December 8, 2011
Shirzad Ahmed knows what it’s like to be a refugee — stateless and far away from family and friends. At the age of 18 he was a political exile from Kurdistan, an area of northeast Iraq that suffered great oppression under the regime of Saddam Hussein and continues to...
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RCMP releases update on criminal investigation
December 14, 2011 JIBC continues full cooperation with investigation Learn More
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Refugee students grateful for support on and off campus
Like many of the close to 1,700 international students at Vancouver Island University, Fatuma Hassan Ali and Noor Mohamed Maalim have had to adapt to their new surroundings on Canada’s West Coast. Unlike almost all the other students at VIU, the two... Tuesday, December 13, 2011 | full story …
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Michelle Gay | Poemitron and Other Works
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 12:00pm -
Sunday, December 18, 2011 - 5:00pm
The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Toronto artist Michelle Gay.
Gay investigates relationships of language, the body and memory and the way in which they are mediated through machine technologies via a...
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