Ten years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report, Acting President, Dr. Robina Thomas reflects on what this moment means for her, Indigenous communities across Canada, and the role of education in shaping the future.

🔗 Read the full op-ed: https://ow.ly/kz8x50X34AF

Congratulations to four #UVic Faculty of Health researchers who have won prestigious Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar awards! Read more about Megan Ames, Farah Mawani, Sarah Nutter & Allie Slemon.
➡️https://www.uvic.ca/health/stories/health/four-health-scholars-celebrated.php

New research from Brian Christie's UVic lab reveals the promise of two psychedelic compounds—psilocybin and 5-methoxy-N, N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT)—for healing concussion and other traumatic brain injuries injuries. Read more:
news.uvic.ca/media-releas...

This is great! I encourage @uvichealth.bsky.social students to join. I learned so much from journal clubs as a student.

“We need to reposition recreation and movement as preventative health." Jean Buckler, from Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education, talks to Oak Bay News about movement as medicine.
🔗https://www.oakbaynews.com/sports/from-dallas-road-to-the-gym-floor-movement-is-medicine-in-victoria-8191220

📢Applications for an exciting postdoctoral fellowship with Nursing's Nancy Clark are open. Read more about the project MENBELONG: Belonging for Single Migrant Men: A Cross-Country Comparative Perspective. Details here: www.uvic.ca/health/resea...

Congrats to Ryan Rhodes, who has been named to an international team that will advise Google on new health technologies. A professor of health psychology, Ryan is the only scholar from a Canadian institution on the Consumer Health Advisory Panel. Read more: store.google.com/intl/en/idea...

📖 UVic Libraries is launching Kula: Library Futures Academy—the world’s first library-based innovation hub.

🎤 Join us Sept 15–16 for panels on Truth, Knowledge & Society with authors, archivists, & artists.

🎟️ Early bird tix: www.eventbrite.ca/e/kula-acade...

MD, author & longevity researcher Peter Attia recently featured a #UVic Medical Sciences-led study published in Nature Metabolism about the link between diabetes and dementia. Read the story:
peterattiamd.com/link-between...
Or the paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39496927/#fu...

Congratulations to Faculty of Health researchers, including Jean Buckler, Jodie Gawryluk, Megan Ames, Allie Slemon, and Erica Woodin, who received Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funding announced today.
➡️ www.uvic.ca/research-inn...

Did you know that each graduate from @uvic.ca's nurse practitioner program can provide primary care to up to 1,000 patients? This year, 34 graduating students will play a crucial role in supporting the health & wellness of people in BC. news.uvic.ca/2025/nurse-p...

“Our healthcare system is not designed to treat these conditions together.” #UVic Clinical Neuropsychology PhD student Cole J. Kennedy shares how we can improve healthcare for unhoused brain injury survivors with mental health & substance use conditions.
➡️ victoriabuzz.com/2025/06/uvic...

We're honoured to host UVic Distinguished Woman Scholar award recipient, Rheanna Robinson, on June 12. Register for her talk, Equity, Inclusion & Why Indigenous Knowledges are Important to Health Research.
➡️https://events.uvic.ca/health/event/97948-equity-inclusion-why-indigenous-knowledges-are

“We really wanted to have a conversation about the intersections between brain injury, mental health and addictions, ‘cause we notice it’s very common, but not so common to talk about it.” Dr. Mario Garcia-Barrera. @uvic.ca

UVic Counselling Psychology's Fred Chou recently spoke at a @royalroads.ca's event for #AsianHeritageMonth. Listen to his talk, Intergenerational Trauma and Resilience and Our Collective Solidarities.
➡️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ0AAZc-DEg

CISUR's Dr. Tim Naimi was recently a guest on @baycrest.bsky.social's #defydementia podcast, talking about alcohol's impact on #brainhealth. You can listen to the full episode here: www.baycrest.org/podcast/epis...
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