There’s no doubt that our growing energy demand will require a significant transformation of the current supply system, including new generation capability and cleaner, more sustainable sources. Fusion—the source of energy contained in our sun—could meet such demands, according to one of Canada’s leading experts on fusion energy, Dr. Allen Offenberger.

How do universities and corporations pursue the values of social justice? Engage with this and other critical conversations on diversity topics during the fifth annual Provost’s Diversity Research Forum: Living Social Justice, on Jan. 23 and 24 at UVic.

Each year, local community leaders are lauded at the annual Victoria Leadership Awards. UVic is a founding partner of the VLA awards program which celebrates the inspirational talents of our city's most tireless champions. In advance, Leadership Victoria announced its Lifetime Achievement Award recipient on Jan. 19. The gala reception takes place Feb. 21 at the Fairmont Empress.

A new publication provides advice on how to keep precious rain water and snow melt from going down the drain. Peeling Back the Pavement: A Blueprint for Reinventing Rainwater Management in Canada's Communities is the result of research from the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance in partnership with UVic's Environmental Law Centre.

UVic’s 50th anniversary organizers want to hear a special story about a UVic event, achievement or campus development, and the Jan. 20 deadline is fast approaching.

University of Victoria President David Turpin is commissioning a review of the recent security breach at the university involving the theft of personal information of nearly 12,000 current and former employees.

During a break-in at the Administrative Services Building over the weekend of Jan. 7 and 8 a small amount of cash, some cheques, electronic devices and employee information were stolen. The university is recommending its employees take measures to ensure their personal information is not compromised.

Food security, nutrition, and being free of chronic conditions are the indicators of healthy living examined by the researchers in the latest edition of the Atlas, which built on the goals of the first 2007 edition of mapping health and wellness in BC.