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Royal Society of Canada elects four UVic researchers

September 10, 2019 | UVic News

The University of Victoria’s Copyright and Scholarly Communications department congratulates four UVic researchers for their recent election to the Royal Society of Canada.

‘Professors Robert Gifford (psychology and environmental studies) and James Tanaka (psychology) are elected new fellows, while Rachel Cleves (history) and Chris Darimont (geography) join as new members to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.’

Both James Tanaka and Chris Darimont have open access objects (video, poster & articles) that can be accessed in UVic’s institutional repository, UVicSpace. Check out their work in UVicSpace by following the links here, here (Tanaka) and here (Darimont).

 

Interested in adding your work to UVicSpace? Follow this link to get started.

Concrete improvements

June 30, 2019 | UVic News & EdgeWise

‘What if concrete could actually heal itself? It’s not so far-fetched. UVic engineer Rishi Gupta, who is Harsh Rathod’s PhD supervisor and HRG’s co-founder and chief technology officer, has been working on “smart concrete” research for nearly a decade. Using various fibre additives and crystalline waterproofing admixtures, his lab is working on concrete mixtures designed to be more resistant to cracking and to self-seal when cracks appear.’

Visit the University of Victoria’s open access learning and research repository UVicSpace to read open access content published by both Harsh Rathod & Rishi Gupta.

Curious about how many people have accessed the article that you’re reading in UVicSpace? Click on the ‘View Beta Statistics’ located on the right hand side of each abstract page to explore (example below).

image of UVicSpace repository screenshot, stats page - November 2019 - access online at https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/10959

UVicSpace repository screenshot (stats) – University of Victoria

image of UVicSpace repository screenshot abstract page - November 2019 - access online at https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/10959

UVicSpace repository screenshot (abstract)- University of Victoria

REACH Awards

October 3, 2019 | UVic News

2019 marks the third year that the University of Victoria has formally recognized its scholars for their extraordinary contributions with the REACH Awards.  UVic President Jamie Cassels describes the award as a way to “… celebrate teaching and research excellence at the University of Victoria.”

UVic’s Copyright & Scholarly Communications office encourages you to peruse the open access works of some of this year’s REACH Award recipients by visiting their pages in UVic’s institutional repository, UVicSpace (listed below).

For more information on how to nominate someone for a REACH Award visit UVic’s Research webpage.

The UVic Copyright & Scholarly Communications team would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of the award recipients and to also extend a big thank you to UVic scholars and the work that you do!

New augmented reality game for French-language learners

August 7, 2019| UVic News

Bernadette Perry, a PhD student at the University of Victoria showcased her augmented reality video game Explorez during the Department of French and Faculty of Humanities April 29, 2019 forum French for the Future—Français pour l’avenir. Explorez was created to….

‘…reinforce their language skills while exploring the UVic campus… [while data collected from participants will allow her to] observe how the students interacted with each other using Explorez—and how collaborative learning takes place.

If you are interested in reading more about Perry’s work with new and emerging digital education technologies, please read her open access content in UVicSpace.

Expand your search for open access content on this topic, by using the subject search terms ‘gamification’ & ‘augmented reality’ in UVicSpace.

Diabetes risk double in Japanese Americans

September 25, 2019 | UVic News

Karen Kobayashi, a University of Victoria sociologist, recently published an open access, peer reviewed paper that examines the existence of diabetes within Asian American populations which revealed…

‘..that Japanese Americans who are not overweight had twice the odds of developing diabetes compared to non-obese, non-Hispanic white Americans.’

This important study can be read along with her other open access papers by visiting the University of Victoria’s institutional repository, UVicSpace.

Looking for more papers and information about diabetes?  You can also search UVicSpace by subject. Use the Browse by Subject search window to search the entire repository.

New program provides mobile end-of-life support to people in poverty

September, 2019 | UVic News & UVic News

In 2 recent UVic News articles, Dr. Kelli Stajduhar has been recognized for her work in developing a Palliative Outreach Resource Team (PORT) in Victoria.

‘The Palliative Outreach Resource Team (PORT) is a collaboration of the University of Victoria, Island Health, Victoria Cool Aid and Victoria Hospice. PORT acts as a bridge between people with serious illness and their caregivers, palliative care, and other health and social support systems.

The program is built upon lessons learned from a three-year study led by UVic palliative care researcher Kelli Stajduhar, lead investigator of the Equity in Palliative Approaches to Care program with the Institute on Aging & Lifelong Health and the School of Nursing.’

PORT endeavors to fulfill the important need for respectful end-of-life care within vulnerable portions of the Victoria community whereby…

‘Mirroring similar models in Toronto and Calgary, people can self-refer or be referred by their caregivers to a palliative care nurse and a physician who manage the pain and symptoms related to life-limiting illness, support chosen family and caregivers, and provide grief and bereavement support.’

Dr. Stajduhar has published several open access papers that you can access via our institutional repository UVicSpace – you can read them now by clicking here and here.

The Copyright and Scholarly Communications office located in the UVic McPherson library wish PORT much success!

Creating a Sustainable Future Through Clean Energy

July 8, 2019 | UVic News

The UVic Copyright and Scholarly Communications office would like to congratulate Dr. Zuomin Dong on his recent UVicNews article that highlights his important work …

‘Dong’s research, which will reduce the environmental impact and costs of marine traffic, is funded in part by a million-dollar donation by the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation, in conjunction with Seaspan. That funding supports the team’s [UVic’s Clean Transportation Research Team] development of the enabling technology and integrated modelling tools to transition marine vessels to optimized hybrid natural-gas / electric and pure electric propulsion systems.’

We invite you to visit UVic’s institutional repository, UVicSpace to view his open access papers.

Congratulations to Dr. Dong and UVic’s Clean Transportation Research Team!

Expert Q&A on sexually transmitted infections in Canada and beyond

July 9, 2019 | UVic News

‘University of Victoria microbiologist Caroline Cameron … [is] Recognized internationally for her research on sexually transmitted infections, the Cameron Lab is one of only a few labs in the world, and the only lab in Canada, that is working to understand the basic science of the pathogen that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum.

Recently, Cameron was recognized with a LifeSciences BC award for her work successfully advancing health outcomes in BC, while at the global stage, Cameron has been recognized by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases with a MERIT Award celebrating an outstanding record of achievement and acknowledging the promise of her research.’

Please follow the UVicNews link above to read the full Q&A session with Caroline Cameron and visit our institutional repository to read some of Caroline Cameron’s important open access (OA) articles in UVicSpace.