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Test of UVic Emergency Alerts Nov. 19

The second campus-wide test of UVic Emergency Alerts will take place Wednesday, November 19. This new system allows the university to contact students and employees with important information during an emergency. Please visit the website www.uvic.ca/alerts to complete a short post-test survey and find out how to register your mobile phone to receive emergency messages.

UVic Media Releases

Fresh tomes for hungry bookworms

Wondering what to do with that stack of well-thumbed thrillers and much-loved vinyl? The University of Victoria is once again calling for donations of books, CDs, DVDs, records and more for its upcoming annual United Way Book Sale Dec. 1-3 in the Student Union Building.

Nominations still open for annual Senior-Friendly Award

The University of Victoria’s second annual Senior Friendly Business Award program is seeking nominations for pharmaceutical businesses in the Capital Regional District that provide the most friendly high-quality services and facilities to customers of a certain age.

Flickr co-founder among UVic Legacy Awards recipients

Flickr.com co-founder Stewart Butterfield will be among four members of the university community to be honoured at this year’s University of Victoria Legacy Awards on the evening of November 24 at the Victoria Conference Centre.

Local luminary turns lecture into poetry

Award-winning poet and chair of the University of Victoria’s Department of Writing Lorna Crozier will read from her extensive collection of work, speak about her latest projects and comment on the process of writing itself at the university’s Distinguished Professors Lecture on Thursday, November 20.

Artists selected for UVic's First Peoples House

The University of Victoria has selected three Coast and Straits Salish artists to create major works of art for the university’s First Peoples House, now under construction with architecture reflecting local First Nations traditions.

Unsolved mysteries site wins Berton Award

The University of Victoria-based Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History website is the 2008 winner of the Pierre Berton Award, presented by Canada’s National History Society for outstanding work in popularizing Canadian history.

UVic tops annual Maclean's university rankings again

For the second year in a row, the University of Victoria has been named the top comprehensive university in Canada in the annual university rankings by Maclean’s magazine, this time tied with Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University. Across the 13 performance measures used by Maclean’s, UVic ranked particularly highly on faculty awards, medical science grants, research activity, scholarships and bursaries for students, and the library.
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