News Stories
VIU Giving Tuesday campaign helps students reach for their dreams
University’s tenth annual campaign runs from November 14 to 28, 2023. When Vancouver Island University (VIU) student Sarah McClelland faced some unexpected...
Alum of the Month: Bianca van der Stoel
After graduating from VIU’s Horticulture Technician program in 2019, Bianca van der Stoel has been busy growing her own Horticultural Therapy business,...
Program Helps Students Transform Business Ideas into Reality
VIU business training program helps those with disabilities on the road to self-employment. Vancouver Island University’s (VIU’s) Cooperative Entrepreneur...
Blog Posts
From social work to sustainable leisure management
After 20 years of working as a social worker, Christin Collishaw decided it was time to explore potential new career paths.As she searched for different...
Find your new career path as a power engineer
Are you an analytical thinker looking for a new challenge in your career? Power engineers support critical industries like health care and education. And with...
Saving an endangered Nanaimo flower
A small flower with yellow and cream petals is on the edge of extinction in Canada and a VIU research team is fighting to save it.Bryan Lamprecht, a VIU...