Two UBC Okanagan students from the South Okanagan have been selected for scholarships of $2,500 each from the Rick and Yasmin Thorpe and Friends “Our Students, Our Future” Entrance Scholarship. Jonathan Palmer, a graduate of Summerland Secondary School, is enrolled in the first year engineering program at UBC Okanagan. David Carlton graduated from Penticton’s Princess […]
A multimedia, live-art performance staged at UBC Okanagan earlier this month goes on the road – to downtown Kelowna – in December. This Neck of the Woods, created by Neil Cadger, Associate Professor of Creative Studies at UBC Okanagan, in collaboration with students and alumni, will be performed at the Rotary Centre for the Arts’ […]
University and community researchers, health care professionals, and expert speakers from Canada, Australia and New Zealand will gather in Westbank on Dec. 7 for a major symposium examining the relatively new-to-Canada concept of cultural safety. The term "cultural safety" was first used in the 1980s in New Zealand in response to the indigenous Maori peoples’ […]
Engineering students at UBC Okanagan will benefit directly from a new scholarship initiative created this week by CTQ Consultants Ltd., an engineering, planning and design firm with headquarters in Kelowna. CTQ Consultants is helping students pursue engineering education at UBC Okanagan with two $5,000 scholarships a year for the next three years. One scholarship will […]
A wind tower for air exchange, a groundwater energy system for winter heating and summer cooling, and other innovations have earned an unprecedented five Green Globes for UBC Okanagan's newest building, the Fipke Centre for Innovative Research. "The Fipke Centre is an outstanding example of the highly sustainable and innovative designs we have pursued for […]
The largest-ever group of UBC Okanagan students to travel to Ghana -- 24 fourth-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) students -- will make the journey to Africa next February, taking with them medications, paediatric equipment, laptop computers, books, and school supplies. To raise funds, the BSN students and faculty are holding a benefit banquet […]
Soprano Suzie LeBlanc, one of Canada's foremost specialists in the music of the baroque and classical periods, will replace Dame Emma Kirkby in a Nov. 19 concert and masterclass in Kelowna. "We learned over the weekend that Dame Kirkby will not be able to travel to Canada due to illness," says Manuela Ungureanu, organizer of […]
A new Management Internship Program launched this week at UBC Okanagan will give top students valuable experience -- and a career head-start -- in the business world. "The program, designed to allow third-year Management students the opportunity to get hands-on experience while they are still in school, is an excellent new addition to our Co-op […]
A donkey and cart, mosquito nets and a few small grinding mills could make a huge difference in the lives of women and children in two small African villages. UBC Okanagan student Vida Yakong hopes to make it happen. Now in the second year of the Master of Science in Nursing program at UBC Okanagan, […]
Next February, a group of 24 fourth-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing students and Assoc. Professor Fay Karp will travel to northern Ghana, taking with them medications, paediatric equipment, laptop computers, books, and school supplies. "This ongoing learning partnership between UBC Okanagan nursing students, faculty and Ghanaian nurses provides opportunities for the development of nurse […]