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About VIU Why VIU

About VIU

Why VIU?

Explore where VIU is going

The Strategic Plan builds on our commitment to diverse learners and draws on our connection to the community.

Strategic Plan

Programs Programs

Explore a wide range of program offerings and learning services. Choose from degrees, vocational training, certificates and more.

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Programs

Learning Services

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Friendly VIU recruiters can help you find a program that’s right for you.

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Admissions & Aid Admissions & Aid

Discover how to apply to VIU and get more information about tuition and financial aid.

Admissions Tuition and Aid

Admissions

Tuition and Aid

How to become a student

Make your VIU application successful by following these steps to becoming a student.

Steps to become a student

Student Life Student Life

Make the best of your time at VIU. Get involved in campus events and enjoy island adventures.

Student Life Student Services

Student Life

Student Services and Support

Get ready for the new student orientation

Attend in-person and online events, explore campus and connect with your professors and soon-to-be classmates!

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Support VIU Support VIU

Connect with other VIU alumni and learn about the impact of donor generosity at VIU.

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VIU Alumni

VIU Donors

Your support means so much to VIU students

Our donors fund over 2000 scholarships, awards, and bursaries each year.

Research Research

Discover how VIU's interdisciplinary research is making a real-world impact.

Research

Research and Creative Activity

Explore the research highlights. Includes recent publications, ground-breaking studies and more.

Research Reports

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CREATE

2017 Award Winners

Posters

People’s Choice Best Poster

Hussein Al-Hadeethi - Tourism Management: Has Increased Airport Security Harmed or Benefited International Tourism
Callie Bennett, Jad Alkhalifa, Hayden Bennett, Roxanne Croxall, Natasha Kinakin, Gage Nordtrom, Oscar Urriola - Geology: Harbour City Pandemonium: Surviving Disaster
Wesley Dunn, Allan Stenlund, Jennifer White, Wilson Nguyen - English: Popsicle Stick Bridge

Honourable Mentions

Thomas White, Roy Lim, Janette Lauzon, Grayce Hilton, Matthew Power, Even Stocker: Literacy for Life and Work: Module 10; Workplace Challenges - Dare to Be Me
Maria Jegede, Samreet Kaur, Uche Ochonogor, Arashpreet Kaur, Yousef Al Ayoub - Business: Sport Union MMAA

Presentations

Meritorious Best Presentation

Tie:
- Kendra Stiwich - Psychology: Investigating People's Place Attachment to Built Institutions: Getting the Idea Off the Ground
- Matthew Miller - Fisheries: Microplastic Contamination in Cultured Pacific Oysters (Crassostrea Gigas): Does Aquaculture Method Play a Role?
Eric Friesen - Biology: Exploration of Maidenhair Fern, Adiantum Aleuticum, Secondary Metabolite Production by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry
Olivia Roscow - Biology: Effects of Z-FA-FMK Drug Treatment on Aquatic Reoviral and Rhabdoviral Replication

Honourable Mentions

Jen Chicorelli - Child and Youth Care: D is for Differences
Krista Meckelborg - Business: The Conference That Never Happened

Scholarship Slam

Eric Friesen - Biology: Exploration of Maidenhair Fern, Adiantum Aleuticum, Secondary Metabolite Production by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry
Tie
- William DeGroot - Physical Education: It Don't Stop: The Hip Hop for Kidz Shop
- Megan Chase - Physical Education: Educate Yourself
Kendra Stiwich - Psychology: Investigating People's Place Attachment to Built Institutions: Getting the Idea Off the Ground

Faculty Awards

David Robinson - Professor-Recreation/Tourism; Engaged Learning and Change Through Undergraduate Research: The 'Heart of Gold' Costa Rica Rural Community Empowerment Project