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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · 4h

Isabelle Desrosiers, who recently graduated from the psychology program at VIU, is raising awareness about a relatively unknown eating condition called orthorexia nervosa, where a person gets fixated on only eating “healthy” foods. Read about her research in the National Post: bit.ly/471W7SR

Delving into the dark side of healthy eating

Vancouver Island University psychology student Isabelle Desrosiers researches a relatively unknown cluster of eating behaviours.

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · 21h

Congrats to Farhad Moghimehfar, VIU’s Regional Innovation Chair for Tourism and Sustainable Rural Development, who's been awarded funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to further support his research! Read the full CFI news release: bit.ly/3W06Qbf

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · 6d

Vancouver Island University has been recognized for its work on campus raising awareness around gender-based violence.

For 8 years, VIU has been working with the Moose Hide Campaign to stand up against violence towards #Indigenous women & children. Read more @chly.ca: www.chly.ca/local-news/2...

Vancouver Island University recognized by Moose Hide Campaign for awareness around gender-based violence — CHLY 101.7FM: Listener Supported in Nanaimo BC.

Vancouver Island University has been recognized for its work on campus raising awareness around gender-based violence.

www.chly.ca

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · 13d

Join us on Monday, September 29 for VIU's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day event. A commemorative walk will take place in the quad at 9 am with ceremony and activities to follow in the Malaspina Theatre.

#VIUniversity #OrangeShirtDay

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · 15d

An art exhibit by local Indigenous artist and advocate Lenae Silva about the experience of drug use is showing at VIU's Malaspina Theatre Sept. 24 until Oct. 10. The exhibit is part of an event titled Harm Reduction is an Act of Love. Learn more about Silva and the exhibit: bit.ly/3KmIvtA

Q&A: Nanaimo artist Lenae Silva on substance use, support and ‘bright endings’ – The Discourse.

Lenae Silva talks about her experiences as a person who uses drugs in her new exhibit at Vancouver Island University.

thediscourse.ca

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations to former VIU Mariners basketball player Graham Giske, who represented Nanaimo at the adaptive CrossFit Games in Las Vegas this month, finishing as high as sixth in his best event: bit.ly/4nOJVeM

Nanaimo athlete competes with world’s fittest at adaptive CrossFit Games

Graham Giske was in Las Vegas this month for strength and fitness sport event

www.nanaimobulletin.com

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · 22d

VIU is officially an Ambassador Campus for the Moose Hide Campaign! 🎉 Since 2017, our students and employees have handed out 40,000+ pins – sparking more than 200,000 conversations about ending gender-based violence and taking steps toward reconciliation. Learn more: bit.ly/3VWL0oV

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · 26d

Starting a new business isn’t easy. VIU MBA alum Jane Stoller wants to help people develop time- and sanity-saving practises. Her latest attempt at doing so is a brand-new book: Organize Your Business Like a Boss. Read more: bit.ly/466fpHu

Local CEO Jane Stoller publishes new book on business organization

"Organize Your Business Like a Boss" helps entrepreneurs build efficient habits, written by Stoller: Glimmer CEO and former Holcim Group consultant.

www.piquenewsmagazine.com

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Vancouver Island Mental Health Society @vimhs.bsky.social · 28d

"As many new and returning students are settling into campus life at @viuniversity.bsky.social, students through the campus #health and #wellness centre want to educate students to make sure they know the impacts of the ongoing #toxicdrug crisis" #Nanaimo #BC @chly.ca www.chly.ca/local-news/2...

Harm reduction education highlighted to keep students safe at Vancouver Island University — CHLY 101.7FM: Listener Supported in Nanaimo BC.

As many new and returning students are settling into campus life at Vancouver Island University, students through the campus health and wellness centre want to educate students to make sure they know ...

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · 26d

Need a dose of nature? There’s a prescription for that. Dr. Lindsay McCunn, an environmental psychologist and VIU Psychology Professor, weighs in on a @g1portal.bsky.social article on the psychological benefits of exposure to nature: tgam.ca/47Ju8JF/

Need a dose of nature? There’s a prescription for that

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · 26d

Dr. Cameron Gordon, a Psychology Professor at Vancouver Island University, weighed in on an article about teasing. He says you should pay attention to body language. If the other person is tense or silent, step back and apologize. Read more: bit.ly/3VODoon

Man Keeps Joking About Replacing His Wife, Until She Snaps And Makes Him Cry

What did he think was going to happen?

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · 26d

VIU students enrolled in an interdisciplinary team-based research course confronted a mounting issue experienced on campuses across Canada: student hunger. Read more in this Council on Undergraduate Research writeup: www.cur.org/featuredur-s...

An Interdisciplinary Team of Researchers Confronts Hunger on Campus - The Council on Undergraduate Research

This VIU third-year course is entirely student-led, with research projects designed and carried out by the students over the academic year.

www.cur.org

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · Sep 3

AI literacy, algae blooms and oyster illness, here's how VIU experts are making the news: news.viu.ca/viu-news-aug...

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · Sep 3

AI development is waiting for no one, with businesses and governments racing to find real-world applications for the technology, VIU Education Prof Julia Hengstler tells the Times Colonist. AI literacy is critical for everyone, she says: www.timescolonist.com/local-news/u...

UVic to trial AI writing tutor in select classes this fall

UVic’s learning and teaching innovation department will begin piloting a generative AI tool in three lower-level undergraduate courses this fall.

www.timescolonist.com

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · Aug 29

Former high school students got their first taste of campus life at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo this week. Read more in @nanaimobulletin.bsky.social: www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/f...

First-year students in Nanaimo prep for start of university life

RockVIU orientation being held this week

www.nanaimobulletin.com

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Dr. Joanna and her Evil Hellhounds @jlphistory.bsky.social · Aug 28

Good morning! It's #RockVIU and if you're at @viuniversity.bsky.social you should come by the history department and say hi! I'm not a regular prof, I'm a ~cool prof~. You'll find me by the dinosaur earrings.

Campus has so much energy today!!

Selfie! I'm wearing my bright orange paisley shirt and my Dino earrings and I'm standing by the rainbow stairs.

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · Aug 28

A dedicated and competent group of local volunteers has come together to form a new society in response to intensifying blue-green algae blooms at Nicola Lake near Merritt. Dr. Chris Gill, Co-Director of VIU's Applied Environmental Research Lab, shares his knowledge: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAFT...

New Society Moves to Level 3 Testing in Response to Blue-Green Algae at Nicola Lake

YouTube video by Rogers tv

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · Aug 27

United Way BC is bringing an out-of-school program to new communities on Vancouver Island to help address food insecurity and a lack of after-school support. The expansion includes into Nanaimo schools with support from VIU and the city: www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/va...

United Way adds school supports for students on Vancouver Island

United Way BC is bringing an out-of-school program to new communities on Vancouver Island to help address food insecurity and a lack of after-school support.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · Aug 25

Nuu-chah-nulth language keeper and VIU alum Jeneva Touchie (Čakʷaasiqḥw̓iłim) is Ucluelet’s 2025 Citizen of the Year: hashilthsa.com/news/2025-08...

Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · Aug 25

Via Toronto Star: The Women’s Pro Baseball League held the first pro women’s baseball tryouts in over 80 years last Friday. Among those trying out was Alli Schroeder, who's played for Canada and became the first woman to play in the Canadian Collegiate Baseball Conference at VIU: bit.ly/47f8dts

Women are flocking to DC for a historic pro baseball tryout. Here are some players to know

Hundreds of women will flock to Washington on Friday to take their first swings at turning pro baseball dreams into reality.

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · Aug 13

A nearly full moon means the Persieds meteor showers peaking overnight on Tuesday, Aug 12 and Wednesday, Aug 13 won’t be nearly as spectacular, according to Vancouver Island university astronomy professor Dr. Gregory Arkos: nanaimonewsnow.com/2025/08/12/n...

Near full moon dampening annual meteor shower

NANAIMO - Nearly unobstructed summer skies typically provide the perfect canvas to enjoy a reliably productive...

nanaimonewsnow.com

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · Aug 11

🏐 From Croatia to BC’s remote oil fields — VIU alum Andrea Čanković turned her passion for sports & science into a geoscience career. 4x national champ, now a wellsite geologist. 🌍💪 Read her story: bit.ly/47wdzAu

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · Jul 28

From ignoring safety signage, to trail conflicts, to how nature soothes the nervous system, VIU researchers have their hearts and minds in the great outdoors this month! news.viu.ca/viu-news-jul...

Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · Jul 28

From field school in Ghana to a career shaping recreation across Canada! Megan Fortune chose VIU for its global opportunities and supportive profs – and it paid off. Her journey proves the power of saying yes to adventure ✨ Read more of her story: #[bit.ly/3J2n9Rr #VIUAlumni #VIUniversity

Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · Jul 26

More education is needed to deal with conflicts on the trail systems in the Cowichan Valley, says VIU Professor Dr. Aggie Weighill. Weighill presented her research on the economic & social impacts of the region’s trails at a Cowichan Valley Regional District meeting on July 9: bit.ly/4lPUCgJ

Conflicts between hikers and bikers, unleashed dogs, on Cowichan trails

More education called for on Cowichan's trails

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