Arts & Science success stories
Student successes
Japanese language students place first and second in the UVic Camosun Joint Speech Contest
At the UVic and Camosun Eight Annual Joint Speech Contest, held on Friday March 5th at UVic, students did extremely well. Our students entered the contest at the beginners level. Mike Flynn, Alan Tatro, Emily Devlin (JAPN 101) placed first and ShaQiang (Jeff), Weijia Chen (Vika) (JAPN 101) placed second in the Beginner Japanese Group. In the Beginner Japanese Individual category, Alana Nasadyk (JAPN 201) placed first and Elizabeth Marsall (JAPN 101) placed second. Congratulations to both the students and their instructor, Masayuki Fukushima.
Music and Applied Communication students partner in Feb 19 concert
Music and ACP students performed and recorded three 20-minute sets of classical music in the Gibson Auditorium. This was the first time the pair recorded in a live setting outside of the recording studio. Performers included:
- Pianists Daniel Jordan and Adrian Bronson
- Soprano Marianna Huijsmans
- Violinist Robert Durkarm
- Clarinettists Rebecca Webster and Kylie Flower
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Felix Mendelssohn
Camosun Applied Communication students put together a first-ever location shoot!
Students from the Applied Communication program recorded their first-ever music video on location in front of a public audience. As part of their class project, the students recorded an hour of live music by Eric Emde of The Midnights and the Vic High R&B band using the studio facilities of the Applied Communication program.
Art/fashion show a fundraiser for film on Rwanda
Victoria News - Camosun College applied communications student Matteus Clement and Rwandan-born artist and Camosun student Eric Muzimpaka are looking to make a film that that spotlights the use of the arts to aid recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder. Read the rest of the article...
Arts & Science students take three awards in the Co-op and Internship photo contest
Environmental Technology student Dusty Silvester was the Arts & Science winner in the "Student@Work" category. He received a $500 prize for his photo "GPS Field Sampling - Mt. Washington - waterfall", taken while working as an environmental field technician for Current Consulting Ltd. He also received an honorable mention in the "People's Choice" category.
Ryan Murphy, also of Environmental Tech won the $250 People's Choice award, as well as an honourable mention in the "Student@Work" category for "Out on the Lake", documenting his surveying work in northern Saskatchewan.
Scott McCaughran, a student in the ACBT program won $50 in the "Fun, funky and fabulous" category for his photo of a harbour seal: "Our subject 'Peanut'".
View all of the winning and entered photos.
Creative Nonfiction students blog for the United Way
Follow the daily blog posts of Debbie Gascoyne and her English 152 students during National Blog Posting Month. Pledges support the United Way, and help encourage these burgeoning writers to practice their craft.
Congratulations to the School of Arts & Science award and scholarship winners!
Dean Randy Genereux and a host of presenters and donors celebrated in handing out 93 awards and scholarships to 76 Arts & Science students totaling $43,900. See photos and full list of recipients.
ACBT graduate moves on to paid internship
Chelsea Maskos stepped out of Camosun's Applied Chemistry & Biotechnology (ACBT) program and right into a paid internship at the Institute of Ocean Sciences (IOS). "This internship has been invaluable," says Maskos. "I couldn't have dreamt for a better position." Read more about Chelsea's exciting opportunity.
Applied Arts magazine honours Camosun visual arts student
Mariesa De La Rosa won an Applied Arts student award for her illustration "May I?". Well done, Mariesa!
Staff and faculty successes
Bbeyond Belfast 2010!CHAOS!
Bbeyond presents ‘CHAOS’, an evening of live art from a special selection of Canadian artists, including Camosun College's own John Boehme and Judie Price. This exciting event is the first in a program that curates cutting edge performance art from Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. The events take place in not-for-profit art spaces in Belfast and runs from the 8th - 13th of February 2010. Audiences will have a unique opportunity to observe and participate in new approaches that re-consider the role of performance art in Belfast and beyond. Learn more...
Congratulations to our NISOD Excellence Award Recipients!
Since it's beginning in 1978, the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) has emphasized the importance of teaching excellence in open-door settings. Early each year NISOD presidents are asked to submit the names of individuals their colleges want to recognize for excellence in education. We are proud to announce the following recipients of the 2009 NISOD Excellence Award:
- George Ballinger, Instructor, Math
- Dominic Bergeron, Chair, Instructor, Biology
- Ann Dumonceaux (Beck), Instructor, English
- Susan Johnston, Instructor, History
- Michael Yerkovich, Technologist, Visual Arts
Two Arts instructors win 2009 International Spirit Award
Paula Young (Chair, Humanities Department), and Karoline Guelke (Anthropology Department) received the International Spirit Award (ISA) at a recognition ceremony on Thursday, November 19, 2009. The ISA is presented annually during International Education Week. Camosun College International nominates Camosun colleagues based on their contributions to international awareness on campus and for their outstanding support for CCI's initiatives and objectives. "We are extremely appreciative of the commitment and outstanding support we receive from collegues who go beyond expectation - their investment is vital to our success" said CCI Director Dawn Sutherland.
Archaeological Field Assistant program heads north
Anthropology instructor Nicole Kilburn developed a customized version of the Archaeological Field Assistant program for students in the northern community of Tsay Keh Village.
Camosun Visual Artist takes the common pencil to a whole new level
Visual arts instructor Brenda Petays' show Graphite Covers consists of a collection of 100 found objects covered in layers of graphite. On display at the Station House Gallery in Williams Lake, her work transforms everyday objects, bringing out their inner glow and structure.
Staff development brown bag sessions
Arts & Science faculty members host lunch hour sessions describing their latest research. Biology chair Dominic Bergeron and psychology instructor David Reagan opened the series on October 2.
The second session saw anthropology instructor Karoline Guelke revisit Peru to assess the impact of tourism and climate change on Peruvian small communities. Paul Gamache of the English department focused on the importance of putting the learner first in the classroom.