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Congratulations to the COVID Special Call Research Award Recipients!

A total of $40,782 was awarded to following for their projects:

Michael Lait: Tracking the Social Impacts During the Covid-19 Crisis: Quality-of-Life and Housing Surveys of the Cowichan Valley, Nanaimo, and Powell River Regions
Dana McFarland: Creating a Selective Web Archive of Central and North Vancouver Island Community Information during COVID-19
Marian Riedel: Alternate Delivery in K-12 Schools: COVID-19 Experiences and Possibilities
Marla Morden: The Psychosocial Impact of COVID-19 on Canadian Adults, Including the Behaviour and Birth Outcomes of Pregnant Women
Lauren Mayes: Provincial Corrections: Re-entry, Recidivism and Reincarceration During COVID
Shannon Dames: A COVID-19 Response and Recovery Effort: Working Across Sectors to Aid Healthcare Providers Suffering from Mental Illness
Alana Devereaux: Acute-Care RNs' Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Aggie Weighill: Leisure as a Mechanism for Coping with Stress Related to Public Health Interventions due to COVID-19.
Gillian Anderson: The Burden of Care: Exploring the Gendered Impact(s) of COVID-19 on Mothers’ Caring Labour

Congratulations to the Provost’s 2020 Scholarship, Research and Creative Activity Award Recipients!

Early Career Research Excellence Award

Dr. Jasmine Janes, Faculty of Science and Technology
Dr. Lindsay McCunn, Faculty of Social Sciences
Dr. Shannon Dames, Faculty of Health and Human Services.

Graduate Research Mentor Award

Mary O’Neill, Faculty of Education

Undergraduate Research Mentor Award

Dr. Linda Shea, Faculty of Health and Human Services

Knowledge Mobilization Award

Antje Bitterberg and Cheryl Cameron, Faculty of Health and Human Services

Deans’ Scholarship, Research and Creative Activity Award

Dr. Monica Soth, Faculty of Health and Human Services
Dr. Mark Williams, Faculty of Social Sciences

**Congratulations VIURAC Explore, Inquire, Collaborate, Gather and Share Grant Award Recipients!**

A total of $55,658 was awarded to the following for their projects:

Martin Angelstad: Exploring the Incorporation of Virtual Dissections and Digital Media in First Year Biology Lab Sessions
Jasmine Janes: Making Raspberry Pi to Observe Pollinators in the NoIR and Shining A Light on the Night Life of Platanthera
Laura Gover-Basar: Police Mothers: Toward an Inclusive Approach for Retaining and Promoting Policewomen
Jeff Lewis: Awareness of Climate Change Through Education and Research (ACER) 2020 Symposium
Gerri McEwen: Ocean Plate Stratigraphy in Southern Quesnellia: an Indicator of Subduction Polarity and Basin Extent in the Paleozoic
Jamie Gorrell: Genetic Diversity of Jalisco Crocodiles
Mercedes Hernandez: Prevalence of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in the Nanaimo Area
Alison Taplay: Centre for Collaboration, Innovation and Sustainable Community Development: Laying the Groundwork
Cheryl Warsh and Katharine Rollwagen: Atomic Childhoods: The Cold War and Children's Popular Culture
Heather Sanrud: Child & Youth Care National Conference Presentation
Ravindra Mohabeer: PANEL: #CommunicationsSoWhite, Canadian Style: Working with and Through Race and PAPER: Do/n’t Look me in the Eye; It shows Dis/Respect: Auto-Invisibility and Bifurcation as Coping Strategies in the Communication Classroom
Janet McKeown: Carrying the Mental Load: Unpacking the Gendered Nature of Mental Labor in Families Through Leisure
Allyson Fleming: Is an Ethos of Criticality Possible in Post Secondary Educational Administration?
Tim Stokes: 16th Sinkhole Conference
Albert Seinen: Freedom through Forgiveness
Brian Dick: International Field School for First-Year Engineering Students
Sarah Crover: Shakespeare Association of America Conference
Fiona Meyers Cook: Resurgence! Making Space for Indigenous ways of Knowing, Being, and Doing
Lindsay McCunn: Evaluating a Pop-up Resource Village: Making Connections with Sense of Place and Perceptions of Safety
Paula Waatainen: Tipping Point: Designing an Urban Planning Game to Teach Democratic Deliberation Skills in Elementary Schools
Suzanne de la Barre: Arctic Tourism in Times of Change: Urban and Overtourism
Heather Pastro: The Path to Truth and Reconciliation Through Visual Imagery and Children's Literature
Michael Govorov: Trivariate Kernel Density Estimation of Spatiotemporal Crime Events
Sandra Johnstone: Engaging Multiple Ways of Knowing to Educate for Geo-Scientific Ethics
Cynthea Masson: Alchemy and The Alchemists’ Council--Presentation at the Speculative Literature in Canada Conference

What's Happening

Building Resilience in Volunteer Firefighters

VIU professor Dr. Leigh Blaney is helping volunteer firefighters cope with the physical and mental effects they may experience when they are involved in a traumatic incident.

Community Remembers Fallen Soldiers in Remembrance Day Project

VIU video memorial that honours Nanaimo soldiers’ contributions to the First and Second World Wars to be displayed across the city.

Nursing Students Go on the Air to Promote Good Health

Five VIU’s nurses of tomorrow address community health-care issues on a unique Nanaimo radio show to provide reliable health information to the community.