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Jenna waves at the camera in a square

Why you should say YES to studying abroad

By Jenna Gill
Finding friendship, direction and adventure overseas: Jenna Gill
A woman stands next to a fence and a green field with her hands in her pockets

Finding her calling in therapeutic healing

Elise Cole’s journey from Kinesiology student to physiotherapist
Christina Hunt smiling at the camera

From memoirs to microplastics: Making headlines for a class assignment

Christina Hunt’s piece on microplastics catches editor’s eye
VIU Graduate, wearing convocation robes, Olivia Thomas is holding a medal while standing outside in front of a garden

From foster care to university graduate

By Annette Lucas
Olivia Thomas’s 14-year journey of resilience and perseverance
A man standing beside a desk with a computer and a monitor on it in a room with shelves and supplies on them

Rebooting his future with the information technology program

By Annette Lucas
Matthias De Gisi graduates VIU with top honour in his category
Leah stands in front of gathering place

A voice for justice: VIU grad champions Indigenous women and girls

Leah Vaisanen shares her journey
Brooks Gill, VIU Information Technology and Applied Systems program student

Safeguarding the digital world

VIU student aspires to become a cybersecurity expert
Sarima Amadi looks into a microscope in the biology lab, while wearing a white lab coat.

Could a common tire chemical threaten fruit flies?

By Rachel Stern
Sarima Amadi investigates impact of tire toxins
A student puts a book back on a library shelf

From mom to media studies student

By Becky Duarte
A single parent’s journey back to university
A young man clad in hipwaders is standing in a river with snowflakes falling around him

Hooked on salmon: student leads record-breaking fish count project

By Annette Lucas
Tristen Dieleman follows his passion for fish into local waters
A woman, a man and another woman sitting on a chesterfield looking at a laptop together.

Helping to make health care make sense

By Annette Lucas
Nursing students aim to help people make better health decisions
Joe Clark holds a container with a cutthroat trout fry.

From classroom to creek: saving Nanaimo’s cutthroat trout

By Rachel Stern
Fisheries student Joe Clark is helping to protect local streams