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Just in time for Halloween, VIU alum Shanon Sinn, who wrote The Haunting of Vancouver Island while he was still a student, spoke with The Discourse about about some of Nanaimo's spookiest spots: bit.ly/3Jo2UhU
October 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Just in time for Halloween, VIU alum Shanon Sinn, who wrote The Haunting of Vancouver Island while he was still a student, spoke with The Discourse about about some of Nanaimo's spookiest spots: bit.ly/3Jo2UhU
More support for students at VIU! 🎓
100 new awards + increased funding for 300+ existing ones = $3M helping students stay in school and succeed. 💙
Learn more: news.viu.ca/new-donor-su...
#VIUniversity #RipplesofChange #GivetoVIU
100 new awards + increased funding for 300+ existing ones = $3M helping students stay in school and succeed. 💙
Learn more: news.viu.ca/new-donor-su...
#VIUniversity #RipplesofChange #GivetoVIU
October 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
More support for students at VIU! 🎓
100 new awards + increased funding for 300+ existing ones = $3M helping students stay in school and succeed. 💙
Learn more: news.viu.ca/new-donor-su...
#VIUniversity #RipplesofChange #GivetoVIU
100 new awards + increased funding for 300+ existing ones = $3M helping students stay in school and succeed. 💙
Learn more: news.viu.ca/new-donor-su...
#VIUniversity #RipplesofChange #GivetoVIU
Congrats to Farhad Moghimehfar, VIU’s Regional Innovation Chair for Tourism and Sustainable Rural Development, who's been awarded funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to further support his research! Read the full CFI news release: bit.ly/3W06Qbf
October 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Congrats to Farhad Moghimehfar, VIU’s Regional Innovation Chair for Tourism and Sustainable Rural Development, who's been awarded funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to further support his research! Read the full CFI news release: bit.ly/3W06Qbf
Join us on Monday, September 29 for VIU's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day event. A commemorative walk will take place in the quad at 9 am with ceremony and activities to follow in the Malaspina Theatre.
#VIUniversity #OrangeShirtDay
#VIUniversity #OrangeShirtDay
September 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Join us on Monday, September 29 for VIU's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day event. A commemorative walk will take place in the quad at 9 am with ceremony and activities to follow in the Malaspina Theatre.
#VIUniversity #OrangeShirtDay
#VIUniversity #OrangeShirtDay
VIU is officially an Ambassador Campus for the Moose Hide Campaign! 🎉 Since 2017, our students and employees have handed out 40,000+ pins – sparking more than 200,000 conversations about ending gender-based violence and taking steps toward reconciliation. Learn more: bit.ly/3VWL0oV
September 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
VIU is officially an Ambassador Campus for the Moose Hide Campaign! 🎉 Since 2017, our students and employees have handed out 40,000+ pins – sparking more than 200,000 conversations about ending gender-based violence and taking steps toward reconciliation. Learn more: bit.ly/3VWL0oV
AI literacy, algae blooms and oyster illness, here's how VIU experts are making the news: news.viu.ca/viu-news-aug...
September 3, 2025 at 3:24 AM
AI literacy, algae blooms and oyster illness, here's how VIU experts are making the news: news.viu.ca/viu-news-aug...
Nuu-chah-nulth language keeper and VIU alum Jeneva Touchie (Čakʷaasiqḥw̓iłim) is Ucluelet’s 2025 Citizen of the Year: hashilthsa.com/news/2025-08...
August 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Nuu-chah-nulth language keeper and VIU alum Jeneva Touchie (Čakʷaasiqḥw̓iłim) is Ucluelet’s 2025 Citizen of the Year: hashilthsa.com/news/2025-08...
🏐 From Croatia to BC’s remote oil fields — VIU alum Andrea Čanković turned her passion for sports & science into a geoscience career. 4x national champ, now a wellsite geologist. 🌍💪 Read her story: bit.ly/47wdzAu
August 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
🏐 From Croatia to BC’s remote oil fields — VIU alum Andrea Čanković turned her passion for sports & science into a geoscience career. 4x national champ, now a wellsite geologist. 🌍💪 Read her story: bit.ly/47wdzAu
From ignoring safety signage, to trail conflicts, to how nature soothes the nervous system, VIU researchers have their hearts and minds in the great outdoors this month! news.viu.ca/viu-news-jul...
July 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
From ignoring safety signage, to trail conflicts, to how nature soothes the nervous system, VIU researchers have their hearts and minds in the great outdoors this month! news.viu.ca/viu-news-jul...
From field school in Ghana to a career shaping recreation across Canada! Megan Fortune chose VIU for its global opportunities and supportive profs – and it paid off. Her journey proves the power of saying yes to adventure ✨ Read more of her story: #[bit.ly/3J2n9Rr #VIUAlumni #VIUniversity
July 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
From field school in Ghana to a career shaping recreation across Canada! Megan Fortune chose VIU for its global opportunities and supportive profs – and it paid off. Her journey proves the power of saying yes to adventure ✨ Read more of her story: #[bit.ly/3J2n9Rr #VIUAlumni #VIUniversity
A new chapter is blooming at Milner Gardens & Woodland with the launch of a strategic plan to guide activities at the site over the next five years. Read more about the plan: bit.ly/4lQG7ZI
July 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A new chapter is blooming at Milner Gardens & Woodland with the launch of a strategic plan to guide activities at the site over the next five years. Read more about the plan: bit.ly/4lQG7ZI
Kinesiology alum Elise Cole credits her unconditional support system – including peers & profs – with helping her finish her studies as the top graduating undergraduate student at #VIU this year. Elise is pursuing a career as a physiotherapist. Learn more about her journey: bit.ly/3U6lm05 #VIUGrad
July 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Kinesiology alum Elise Cole credits her unconditional support system – including peers & profs – with helping her finish her studies as the top graduating undergraduate student at #VIU this year. Elise is pursuing a career as a physiotherapist. Learn more about her journey: bit.ly/3U6lm05 #VIUGrad
How nature soothes, talking about men's mental health, hiking a local geological phenomenon and more. What made the news over the past two weeks at VIU: news.viu.ca/viu-news-jun... #VIUniversity #MyVIU #cdnpse #bcspe
July 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How nature soothes, talking about men's mental health, hiking a local geological phenomenon and more. What made the news over the past two weeks at VIU: news.viu.ca/viu-news-jun... #VIUniversity #MyVIU #cdnpse #bcspe
VIU is closed July 1 for the stat holiday.
Looking for something to do? There are Canada Day celebrations across the mid-Island and Sunshine Coast. We also suggest taking some time to learn about the Indigenous Nations whose lands our campuses reside on: Read more at news.viu.ca/blog/what-ar....
Looking for something to do? There are Canada Day celebrations across the mid-Island and Sunshine Coast. We also suggest taking some time to learn about the Indigenous Nations whose lands our campuses reside on: Read more at news.viu.ca/blog/what-ar....
June 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
VIU is closed July 1 for the stat holiday.
Looking for something to do? There are Canada Day celebrations across the mid-Island and Sunshine Coast. We also suggest taking some time to learn about the Indigenous Nations whose lands our campuses reside on: Read more at news.viu.ca/blog/what-ar....
Looking for something to do? There are Canada Day celebrations across the mid-Island and Sunshine Coast. We also suggest taking some time to learn about the Indigenous Nations whose lands our campuses reside on: Read more at news.viu.ca/blog/what-ar....
Congrats to #VIU Creative Writing grad Tonia Laird on releasing her debut novel! Seventhblade is “a fast-paced, anti-colonial, Indigenous-led, secondary-world fantasy debut from a fresh new Indigenous voice that explores twisted power dynamics and the effects of settler colonialism.” bit.ly/3ZPkssj
June 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Congrats to #VIU Creative Writing grad Tonia Laird on releasing her debut novel! Seventhblade is “a fast-paced, anti-colonial, Indigenous-led, secondary-world fantasy debut from a fresh new Indigenous voice that explores twisted power dynamics and the effects of settler colonialism.” bit.ly/3ZPkssj
Elise Visentin from the Faculty of Education is skipping her way to Japan next month to compete as part of Team Canada in the 2025 International Jump Rope Union’s World Championships. Learn how she discovered a joy for jumping here: bit.ly/44jqJxC
#MyVIU #ropeskippingcanada
#MyVIU #ropeskippingcanada
June 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Elise Visentin from the Faculty of Education is skipping her way to Japan next month to compete as part of Team Canada in the 2025 International Jump Rope Union’s World Championships. Learn how she discovered a joy for jumping here: bit.ly/44jqJxC
#MyVIU #ropeskippingcanada
#MyVIU #ropeskippingcanada
Congratulations to our 2024-25 Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association Academic All-Canadians! With 12 recipients, this marks the largest Academic All-Canadian cohort in the VIU Mariners varsity program's history, topping the 10 Academic All-Canadians celebrated in 2001! news.viu.ca/new-level-vi...
June 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Congratulations to our 2024-25 Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association Academic All-Canadians! With 12 recipients, this marks the largest Academic All-Canadian cohort in the VIU Mariners varsity program's history, topping the 10 Academic All-Canadians celebrated in 2001! news.viu.ca/new-level-vi...
BC has a brand-new party – OneBC. Dr. Michael MacKenzie, VIU’s Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership, analyzes the new party’s offerings for The Tyee: thetyee.ca/News/2025/06... @thetyee.ca
June 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
BC has a brand-new party – OneBC. Dr. Michael MacKenzie, VIU’s Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership, analyzes the new party’s offerings for The Tyee: thetyee.ca/News/2025/06... @thetyee.ca
Learning where Bannock came from, how to bake it and eating it were just some of the highlights of the National Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations at Shq’apthut. Huy ch q'u, thank you for sharing. #MyVIU #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay, #NIPD2025
June 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Learning where Bannock came from, how to bake it and eating it were just some of the highlights of the National Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations at Shq’apthut. Huy ch q'u, thank you for sharing. #MyVIU #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay, #NIPD2025
Matthias De Gisi overcame personal doubt that going back to school wasn’t for him. Not only did he graduate with a diploma in Information Technology and Applied Systems, but he also won the Governor General’s Academic Bronze Medal. Read Matthias’s full story on the VIU Blog: bit.ly/4n5ltX4.
June 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Matthias De Gisi overcame personal doubt that going back to school wasn’t for him. Not only did he graduate with a diploma in Information Technology and Applied Systems, but he also won the Governor General’s Academic Bronze Medal. Read Matthias’s full story on the VIU Blog: bit.ly/4n5ltX4.
Graduation ceremonies, student hunger research and preserving history so future generations can learn about the wartime sacrifices Canadian soldiers made. Here's what's happening at #VIU: news.viu.ca/viu-news-exp...
June 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Graduation ceremonies, student hunger research and preserving history so future generations can learn about the wartime sacrifices Canadian soldiers made. Here's what's happening at #VIU: news.viu.ca/viu-news-exp...
Vancouver Island University is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Dennis Johnson as interim president and vice-chancellor for a term of up to two years, effective June 16. Dr. Johnson will lead the university through a period of transition & institutional renewal. Learn more: bit.ly/3FsRzLD
June 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Vancouver Island University is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Dennis Johnson as interim president and vice-chancellor for a term of up to two years, effective June 16. Dr. Johnson will lead the university through a period of transition & institutional renewal. Learn more: bit.ly/3FsRzLD
Commemorative print of the CCS W.E. Ricker created by Malaspina College alum, Derek Rickwood was recently gifted to the Fisheries and Aquaculture program . “Bill Ricker was a pre-eminent scientist and he is a big part of some of the core principles of our teachings,” says Prof Duane Barker.
June 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Commemorative print of the CCS W.E. Ricker created by Malaspina College alum, Derek Rickwood was recently gifted to the Fisheries and Aquaculture program . “Bill Ricker was a pre-eminent scientist and he is a big part of some of the core principles of our teachings,” says Prof Duane Barker.
Ronin Harver found his people in VIU's Graphic Design program, where he's turning his passion into a career. One hands-on project Ronin was a part of this year was the spring 2024 Crime Stoppers poster campaign, and his designs were chosen to use in community awareness campaigns: bit.ly/4kVauha
June 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Ronin Harver found his people in VIU's Graphic Design program, where he's turning his passion into a career. One hands-on project Ronin was a part of this year was the spring 2024 Crime Stoppers poster campaign, and his designs were chosen to use in community awareness campaigns: bit.ly/4kVauha
We are so proud of Simon Martin and Brenna Smith who competed at the Canadian Skills Nationals competition Simon took home the secondary level Culinary gold medal. Brenna did an incredible job in the post-secondary level Hairstylist competition, but did not win a medal this time. Congratulations!
June 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We are so proud of Simon Martin and Brenna Smith who competed at the Canadian Skills Nationals competition Simon took home the secondary level Culinary gold medal. Brenna did an incredible job in the post-secondary level Hairstylist competition, but did not win a medal this time. Congratulations!