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Turn up the volume! This is the sound of a protein trapped and excited in a laser tweezer, its acoustic vibration measured by engineers at the University of Victoria. 

What you're hearing is literally the sound the protein's vibrations would make if it were vibrating at one billionth the frequency it actually does.   

Skyler Wheaton took the original data--in the gigahertz range and inaudible to humans--and scaled it down so you can hear it. 

Dr. Reuven Gordon calls the technique Extraordinary Acoustic Raman spectroscopy (EAR) and he thinks this way of examining proteins is about to change the pace of drug discovery for diseases from cystic fibrosis to cancer. 
Read more about it from UVic News. http://ow.ly/F31ea

Read Dr. Gordon's paper published this week in Nature Photonics: http://ow.ly/EWLEA


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In this premiere episode of “Five Questions With…” our editor, Tara WIlliamson sits down with Anishinaabe Legal Scholar, John Borrows. Borrows’ work provides future considerations on the collision between Canadian law and Indigenous law in an exploration of what “future Canada” might look like.

Five Questions With – Anishinaabe Scholar John Borrows

Chair of UVic's department of writing David Leach sits down with professor Bill Gaston and alumna Quinn Macdonald to discuss their careers and upcoming projects in this flagship episode of the podcast. Subscribe for more.

Episode 1 - Bill Gaston & Quinn MacDonald

Dr. Tim Black is chair of Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies and Associate Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Victoria. For the past twenty years, he has worked with the Canadian military and veterans as a researcher and clinician. Working with Wounded Warriors Canada, Black co-founded their COPE (Couple Overcoming PTSD Everyday) Program to help reduce the impact of PTSD on families of veterans and first responders.
 
In this podcast, Black discusses the Trauma Resiliency Program he designed, alongside Alex Sterling, for Wounded Warriors. The program focuses on team-based training to develop trauma-resilient skills for those who experienced traumatic events. “What’s new about this program,” Black says, “is the focus on changing the culture of psychological injuries from one of perceived weakness to one where hard work is required, teamwork is valued and transformation is the goal.”

Learning Transforms

Tim Black - Trauma informed

Building a Trauma Informed Community with Tim Black

Chaw-win-is was the Indigenous Resurgence Coordinator at the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Education until August 2018. Chaw-win-is graduated with an MA in Indigenous Governance at UVic and completed two years in the English department in the Literatures of the West Coast Program. She has been involved in Indigenous Education in various roles, including teaching, community coordinating, intercultural education and Indigenous Language Revitalization for several years.

In this podcast, Chaw-win-is discusses the process of indigenous resurgence. From why we do a territorial acknowledgment, to better understanding our history and trauma, and why indigenizing education is important.

Chaw-win-is - Indigenous resurgence

Indigenous Resurgence in Education with Chaw-win-is

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