UBC Okanagan Events
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View EventsMyra's Men: new book launches with Myra Canyon reopening
A new book about the men who built the majestic Myra Canyon trestles on B.C.’s Kettle Valley Railway (KVR) will launch next week, just in time for the reopening of the famous trestles destroyed by wildfire in 2003. Myra’s Men, written by Maurice Williams, Associate Professor of History at UBC Okanagan, chronicles the building of […]
Osoyoos lakebed study to examine impact of settlement
There’s a lot of environmental history at the bottom of Osoyoos Lake. Starting June 16, researchers from UBC Okanagan and the B.C. Ministry of Environment will begin to reconstruct that history by sampling and analyzing sediments from the deepest parts of the lake. They’ll be looking for chemical and biological clues about how human settlement […]
Free centenary concert features UBC’s Borealis String Quartet
The University of British Columbia became B.C.’s first university 100 years ago with the 1908 signing of the University Act. To celebrate UBC’s centenary, UBC Okanagan is hosting a free public concert by the acclaimed Borealis String Quartet later this month. Formed in Vancouver in the fall of 2000, the Borealis String Quartet is the […]
UBC Okanagan Spring Convocation sees 668 students graduate
A total of 668 graduates crossed the stage to receive their degrees from University of British Columbia President and Vice-Chancellor Stephen Toope during today’s Spring Convocation ceremonies at UBC Okanagan. “I hope that already, only a few days or weeks after the end of your degree, you are beginning to sense the freedom that a […]
Rethinking the Evolution of Human Culture and Early Life
One of Liane Gabora’s next projects will take her thousands of years back in time. An assistant professor of cognitive psychology at UBC Okanagan, Gabora is developing computer software that will help archaeologists piece together the process by which human culture evolves. “I’m interested in what sense culture constitutes an evolutionary process,” says Gabora. “The […]