2025 Spring eTextbook savings top previous semester

by Sarah Kahale | Jan 28, 2025 | News, Open education

eTextbooks for Students (Spring 2025) The numbers are in, the classes are dropped, and the savings are counted! For the 2025 Spring semester, UVic Libraries’ eTextbooks program saved students a whopping $330,780.15, beating lasts semester’s savings by...

Sneezing sea sponge teaches scientists about B.C.’s changing oceans

by Sarah Kahale | Jan 14, 2025 | News, UVicSpace

January 14, 2025 | Global News via UVic News A recent study published in the Marina Ecology Progress Series centers around a creature named Belinda. Observed 23 meters below the surface of Barkley Sound, Belinda is a sea sponge that was recorded for four years by...

Mysterious Noises in the Ocean Have Unexplained Source, Scientists Say

by Sarah Kahale | Nov 29, 2024 | News, UVicSpace

November 28, 2024 | Yahoo! News via UVic News Ocean scientists have been studying the “Bio-Duck”, a mysterious sound in the waters around Antarctica. The sound, which was first recorded in 1960, was linked in 2014 to Antarctic minke whales — but similar...

2025 Lowens – Libraries Fellowship Deadline Approaches

by Sarah Kahale | Nov 12, 2024 | News, UVicSpace

The 2024 deadline for the Peter and Ana Lowens University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections Student Fellowship Program is November 18, 2024! The program, which is open to UVic undergraduate and graduate students of any discipline, encourages students to...

Collaborative project between UVic and Haida Gwaii aims to divest islands from diesel power

by Sarah Kahale | Nov 5, 2024 | News, UVicSpace

October 29, 2024 | Vancouver Sun via UVic News A collaboration between the Haida Nation and the University of Victoria’s Pacific Regional Institute for Marine Energy Discovery (PRIMED) is exploring renewable energy sources like offshore wind, tides, and waves Haida...