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Laurent Tran January 28, 2017 - 5:18pm

In Laurent Tran's Master’s program, he studied project management, which included different aspects of monitoring and evaluation (e.g. qualitative and quantitative research methods) both in theory and in practice. This was a skill needed in the development activities in the Kyrgyz Republic, and he accepted a posting there to work as monitoring and evaluation assistant.

Katie Durvin January 28, 2017 - 5:17pm

Gabrielle Bishop July 13, 2022 - 11:55am

VIU BA Major in Global Studies graduate, Gabrielle Bishop

Gabrielle Bishop (Bachelor of Arts, Major in Global Studies) is a Foreign Service Officer at Global Affairs Canada (GAC).

Gabrielle began her career with GAC in 2015, while completing her Master of Arts at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa.

Stephen Hume January 20, 2017 - 12:19pm

Stephen Hume has done every newspaper job from copy chaser to editor-in-chief and has covered everything from prize fights to prime ministers. He has written for newspapers, magazines and provided commentary for national radio and television. He has been senior writer and columnist at The Vancouver Sun for 27 years.  Hume has written nine books of poetry, essays, biography, natural history and history and he has contributed to two dozen more.

Jay Ruzesky January 19, 2017 - 10:26am

Jay Ruzesky's most recent book is In Antarctica: An Amundsen Pilgrimage (Nightwood 2013) about his voyage to the white continent in the footsteps of his ancestor--Roald Amundsen. Ruzesky’s novel about a medieval monumental astronomical clock is called The Wolsenburg Clock (Thistledown 2009) and was shortlisted for a ReLit Award and for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize.

Nelson Gray January 28, 2022 - 9:50am

Nelson Gray is a writer, director and an instructor in the English and Creative Writing Departments at V.I.U. He has a B.A. from SFU, an MFA in Directing from UBC, and a PhD in Theatre History from the University of Victoria. His writing for the stage has been produced in Canada, the U.S., England and Germany, and his poetry and scholarly articles have appeared in numerous journals and in two anthologies: Readings in Performance and Ecology and Greening the Maple: Canadian Ecocriticism in Context.

Harbour City Photo Salon 2018 May 27, 2018 - 4:22pm
Joy Gugeler January 6, 2017 - 4:40pm

Gugeler has acquired and edited over 100 literary and young adult titles for ECW, Raincoast, and Beach Holme presses, publishing dozens of award-winning authors including Bill Gaston, Michael Crummey, Diane Warren, Steven Galloway, Adam Schroeder, Patrick Friesen, Eric Walters and John Wilson. She currently edits annual titles in the Ralph Gustafson Distinguished Poets Lecture series for VIU. In 2001 she co-founded the Canadian Book Camp in Vancouver for children aged 11 to 16 and was on the board of the Red Cedar Award 2006-13.

Colloquium Series Fall 2016 January 28, 2022 - 9:50am

 

Colloquium Series Fall 2016

 

Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home August 21, 2018 - 11:25am

Read what the worms write on the madrone leaf, and walk sideways.

Robert Herrick August 21, 2018 - 11:25am

Let's strive to be the best; the gods, we know it,
Pillars and men, hate an indifferent poet."

Margaret Atwood December 2, 2016 - 3:47pm

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. 

25 years November 29, 2016 - 1:49pm
2016 Winner May 30, 2018 - 12:01pm

Larissa Thelin

Larissa Thelin won the 2016 Carto Cup competition for her map showing the current potential habitat range of the Vancouver Island marmot. This map was part of her Geography 491 independent research project titled "The Potential Effects of Climate Change on the Habitat Range of the Vancouver Island Marmot."

2015 Winner November 21, 2016 - 10:34am

Jessica Pyett

Jessica Pyett won the 2015 Carto Cup competition for her Geography 324 Research Methods project map showing the trails and access points in Buttertubs Marsh.

2015 Winner November 21, 2016 - 10:19am

Jessica Pyett

Jessica Pyett won the 2015 Carto Cup competition for her Geography 324 Research Methods project map, detailing the trails and access points around Buttertubs marsh.

Redirect for Portal Campaign November 14, 2016 - 10:01pm

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2012 Gallery November 10, 2016 - 1:50pm
2009 Gallery November 10, 2016 - 1:44pm
2008 Gallery November 10, 2016 - 1:41pm