2016 Digital History Essay Prize

2016 Digital History Essay Prize, co-sponsored by Canadiana.org and the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) which will be awarded to students registered at a Canadian university who demonstrate the most compelling use of Canadiana.org digitized historical content in...

Personalized Adult Coloring Books

Kristine Hoang | March 28, 2016 | Digital Book World   In recent years, Put Me in the Story, the line of personalized books for children, has been a huge hit for its publisher, Sourcebooks. What’s more, this trend has coincided with the surge in popularity...

PhDs embrace alternative dissertations

The Chronicle of Higher Education | Vimal Patel | February 28, 2016 Nick Sousanis has scored some wins lately. After taking an academic risk to use an alternative form for his dissertation — a comic book about visual thinking — he successfully defended it in 2014 and...

UVic hosts fifth annual community festival, March 7-12

You are invited to attend UVic’s fifth annual Ideafest, a celebration of some of the brightest minds and ideas on campus. Running from March 7-12, this year’s festival showcases 50 outstanding events on topics ranging from human health and urban renewal, to space...