Campfire stories with Sue Paish: 2019 Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year Award gala
By Jensen Kirby, Gustavson External Relations co-op student This year we honoured Sue Paish, a true trailblazer, at our 2019 Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year Award gala. It was a spectacular evening, with nearly 600 guests from the local business community...
Meet Scott Butler, Gustavson’s 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient
By Mackenzie Ford, Gustavson External Relations co-op “In grade four I knew two things: that I wanted to go to university and that I wanted to own a business,” said Scott Butler, BCom ’98, while smiling, just one night after accepting Gustavson’s Distinguished Alumni...
BCom alumna on working (and living) as an activist
By Angela Cowan. Originally published in the fall 2018 edition of Business Class magazine. An active volunteer since her mid-teens, Arielle Houghton, BCom ’18, has always had a powerful sense of connection with her community and environment. That connection has only...
New scholarships give PhD students a boost
By Sasha Milam, Gustavson Content Curator. Originally published in Gustavson’s Year in Review 2018. Two new scholarships with distinct—and distinctly important—aims were awarded to our PhD students for the first time in 2018. The Dr. Ian Stuart Memorial PhD...
First job post-grad: meet former student portfolio manager Zack Poirier
By Sasha Milam, Gustavson Content Curator Meet Zack Poirier, BCom ’18, one of the inaugural class of nine student portfolio managers in UVic’s newest applied learning initiative: the Applied Portfolio Management Program (APMP). With oversight from an investment...Visit us
