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Kirk McNally (right) with School of Music student Ayari Kasukawa in the Create Lab.

Art and science of listening

What happens in the recording studio has long been mythologized in popular culture. Music technology professor Kirk McNally scrutinizes recordings to better understand the relationship between musicians, engineers and music producers.

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Bruce Wallace overseas the work of chemistry co-op student Ashley Larnder at AIDS Vancouver Island harm reduction site.

Drug checking project to help prevent overdoses

A unique UVic chemistry/social work collaboration is being piloted at Victoria harm reduction sites to provide a quick, accurate chemical analysis of drugs as a way to prevent overdoses and also evaluate drug-checking technologies.

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Julian Lum works in his lab at the Deeley Research Centre in Victoria.

Focus on sugar in new immune cell cancer research

UVic scientist Julian Lum has received a $1.08 million grant to research a new type of immunotherapy that factors a patient’s diet as a means of engineering natural immune cells to fight cancer.

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Witness blanket art installation

Audain professor makes history again

The Witness Blanket by Carey Newman, UVic’s sixth Audain Professor, is the centrepiece of a historic agreement with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, uniting Western legal principles with Indigenous ways of knowing and being.

Witness blanket
Shezell-Rae Sam wearing a cedar hat made by her grandmother

Ancient ways of knowing help heal

How does one "speak back" to violence experienced by Indigenous girls, young women, two-spirit youth, even whole communities impacted from centuries of oppression?

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Canada's sea levels are rising

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