Engineering students showed off their ingenuity and skill during the annual design competition. They created interconnected rolling ball structures designed to move a ball continuously throughout the structure. The competition was featured in Nanaimo News Now and the Nanaimo News Bulletin.
The VIU Harm Reduction Alliance organized a Grief Fire event at VIU’s Nanaimo campus on Monday, April 14. The event was held to commemorate the anniversary of when the province declared the toxic drug crisis a public health emergency. Read the Nanaimo News Bulletin article.
VIU students are preparing to create the world’s largest Nanaimo bar. Read about the project and some of the history of the tasty dessert in the Times Colonist and CHEK News.
VIU’s education program in psychedelic-assisted therapy was mentioned in article in Medscape.com about lack of access to treatment in Canada.
VIU’s Milner Gardens and Woodland is featured in a Black Press article about four-day trips to take from major hubs on Vancouver Island. Read the article.
VIU’s Political Studies department is hosting a Candidates’ Town Hall on Tuesday, April 22. The Nanaimo News Bulletin promoted it.
A former Vancouver Island University badminton coach will be immortalized in the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association hall of fame. Alf McGuire will be inducted to the hall on the strength of leading VIU badminton as a coach and then as a badminton convenor for the CCAA. He started coaching at VIU in 1974, when it was known as Malaspina College, and served as convenor from 1994-96 and 1997-2015. Read the Nanaimo News Bulletin story.
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