From saving marmots, to how to be a representative in a democratic society, to trail usage statistics and challenges, here is how VIU experts are making the news this week:
Honorary Research Associate Dr. Imogene Lim contributed personal items to new exhibit at the Royal BC Museum which traces Chinese in Canada to a time decades before Gold Rush. Read more.
VIU Resource Management Technician Michael Lester’s career switch from military to conservation is featured in a Nanaimo News Bulletin story about him and his involvement with saving the Vancouver Island marmot. Read the story.
Dr. Michael MacKenzie, VIU’s Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership appears as a guest on CBC radio’s IDEAS for a discussion about revitalizing democracy and inspiring national change. Listen to the segment. He was also featured on CBC’s The House alongside students in his class that teaches how to be a representative. Listen to the segment. MacKenzie also weighed in on candidates not showing up for town hall meetings leading up to the federal election. Read the story.
Former VIU Fulbright Scholarship holder Sara Vogel, who worked with the Women’s Studies Department to create a curriculum on sexual violence prevention, is the new director of REACH, the Haywood County non-profit that provides aid to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Read the story.
A survey collaboration between VIU, Tourism Cowichan and Cowichan Trail Stewardship Society has shed light on varied trail usage, and some issues. Read the story.
Steve ‘The Bee Guy’ Scanlan is on a mission to spread the buzz and get people building more bee-friendly spaces for mason bees. The VIU Creative Writing student shares his enthusiasm in an article with the Lake Cowichan Gazette. Read the article.
In Fake Out, Faye Bayko transports readers to Long Beach in 1968 at the height of the hippy movement on Vancouver Island. Within the first 50 pages, a murder occurs and the story unfolds through the perspectives of four characters. Bayko has a diploma in Studies in Leisure Services from the former Malaspina College (now Vancouver Island University). Read more about her debut novel.
Clad in hip waders, the weight of the cool river flow buffeting the protective layer keeping him dry while immersed in the science of salmon enhancement is exactly where Tristen Dieleman wants to be. Dieleman, a second-year diploma student in the VIU Fisheries and Aquaculture program, was featured on the Council on Undergrad Research’s website. Read the article.
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