The Stó:lo Indigenous Foodways Co-Lab (part of the Just Transitions in Food Systems Network) is a community-based research project examining the relationship agri-food transitions and traditional food systems resurgence in the context of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia Canada. This project will create a dialogue space to raise and address questions about what changes […]

Vaccines are one of the most effective methods for protection against life-threatening infections such as hepatitis B. Due to the difficulties associated with extensive clinical trials on younger population groups such as infants and newborns, vaccine research is primarily conducted on adults. Therefore, there is a significant gap in our current knowledge of early-life immune […]

Typical forests in Canada were used to qualitatively and quantitatively study atmospheric environmental factors and plant therapy characteristics The relationship between negative oxygen ion concentration and phytoncides and the environmental factors was analysed by means of path analysis and regression analysis. Biotic and abiotic factors affecting the release of phytoncides are studied, and their effects […]

Text documents often include information pertaining to geographic locations. Mapping these place names to specific geographic locations currently requires a considerable amount of human effort to match the text with a GIS or other mapping system. This becomes especially challenging when the same place name is represented by multiple places, such as in the naming […]

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is one of the classical problems studied in Theoretical Computer Science and asks for an assignment of values to variables such that given constraints are satisfied. The CSP includes as special cases for example graph coloring and Boolean satisfiability. Besides its theoretical importance, it has applications in many different domains, […]

Failure in pipelines may have financial and life-threatening consequences. High-quality weld joints in pipelines can avoid these consequences and improve the company’s productivity and reputation. To improve the weld quality, an efficient solution is to detect the defects. A collaboration of human and robots can provide an accurate, robust defect detection system. This system requires […]

Many liver cancer cases are diagnosed at advanced and inoperable stages, at this point, the disease is highly lethal and most patients do not survive more than a year. Currently, the front-line treatment for inoperable liver cancer is antibody-based immunotherapy, but only 30% of patients respond to this therapy. Our lab has developed a lipid […]

Radioactive medical isotopes lead-203 (203Pb) and lead-212 (212Pb), which are compatible with nuclear imaging and cancer therapy, respectively, have recently gained international academic and commercial attention due to successes in clinical trials. Through initial imaging with 203Pb-labeled drugs, physicians can determine if the patient will be suitable for treatment with the 212Pb-labeled counterpart, allowing for […]

Today, construction activities have resulted in the depletion of vast amounts of non-renewable resources that cause climate change which is one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our day. The construction industry is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions globally. Sustainable construction is now mainstream, necessitating the investigation of environment friendly construction material […]

In recent years, numerous jurisdictions in the USA and Canada have enacted bans on ‘conversion’ practices, i.e., organized attempts to suppress Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (2S/LGBTQ+), and other minoritized sexual and gender identities. In 2022, our team conducted the UnACoRN survey, a first-of-its-kind binational survey of 9,679 youth (15-29 years of age). Through […]

The “local turn” of migration policies has been more pronounced since the “refugee crisis” of 2015. Its accompanying camps, emergency shelters, and buildings occupation have put cities under the microscope, underlying the multiple interactions between homelessness and forced migration, including precarious housing and hidden forms of homelessness. Several types of networks are engaged in tackling […]

This project will explore the strengths of one existing Indigenous-led school-based ecocultural restoration program, PAPAKEN HAUTW, and support the program in dreaming and designing of a larger and more sustainable youth land stewardship/land-based learning program within the tribal school where it is currently housed and beyond, to the community and Greater Victoria School Board-SD61.