UVic Torch Online - Alumni Magazine

Autumn 2006,
Volume 27, Number 2

new leases on learning University 101 opens doors to education that seemed closed shut. More By BETH HAYSOM Photography by DON PIERCE	from rn to np Nurse Practitioner program grads join the health care team. More By ROB MCMAHON, BA '03 Photography by ROB KRUYT
communities that click The UVic Online Community evolves from its roots in the early Internet with new ways for alumni and students to connect. More By ROB MCMAHON, BA '03	science with kid appeal The Human Genome Project. Stem cell research. Climate change. Even the experts can find fast-advancing science hard to keep up with. More By FRANCES BACKHOUSE Photography by HÉLÈNE CYR
lemur life They’re popular in zoos but if you want to see wild ring-tailed lemurs, the only place to find them is in southern Madagascar. More Interviewed by MIKE MCNENEY Photography courtesy of LISA GOULD	art houses Polygon Homes chairman Michael Audain, a Victoria College student from the Lansdowne era, makes an art of new home development. More By ROB MCMAHON, BA '03 Photography by ROB KRUYT
solo force Comedic hurricane Charles Ross brings his off-Broadway success— a wildly condensed version of the Star Wars trilogy—to campus in January.More By JOHN THRELFALL, BA '96 Photography by CHRISTINE MARSHALL