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Grade 5 Casorso Elementary student Anthony Kurkjian tests his flexibility in the Human Kinetics lab at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus. The elementary students had the opportunity to add to their book lessons by getting some hands-on experience thanks to their teacher and the Schools of Nursing and Health and Exercise Sciences.

Working together a healthy idea

By Darren Handschuh on December 21, 2011

UBC Schools of Nursing and Health and Exercise Sciences join forces

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UBC alumni and Okanagan Mission Secondary School senior math teachers Paul Janke, left, and Graham Johnson have implemented a flipped classroom where the students watch their lesson online at home and they discuss what they learned in class the next day.

UBC alumni explore new teaching method

By Darren Handschuh on December 20, 2011

Flipped classrooms allow students more time with teachers

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George C. Grinnell, assistant professor of English, UBC Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies

UBC professor wins award for contribution to the humanities

By Patty Wellborn on December 19, 2011

George C. Grinnell’s book explores significance of hypochondriac culture

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Lori Field, program coordinator with the Learning Exchange at UBC's Okanagan campus, left, and Laura Patterson, technical and professional communication instructor with the School of Engineering, teamed up to teach first-year engineering students about client interaction and communication skills while benefiting six local non-profit agencies.

Program designed to help engineers communicate

By Darren Handschuh on December 19, 2011

UBC students develop fundraising plans for local charities

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Post-doctoral fellow Jonathan Little

UBC research examines ways to prevent diabetes

By Patty Wellborn on December 15, 2011

Year-long study builds on McMaster findings of exercise benefits

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David Cox

Annual breakfast will benefit high-calibre UBC athletes

By Darren Handschuh on December 7, 2011

March 29 event will raise money for UBC's Okanagan teams

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First Nations students awarded grants

By Patty Wellborn on December 7, 2011

Six of the winners attend UBC’s Okanagan campus

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Vicki Green encourages her students to search out alternative teaching sites.

You want to be a teacher? Then get out of the classroom

By Darren Handschuh on December 5, 2011

UBC’s Okanagan campus education students go beyond their textbooks

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PhD student Chris Willie is the recipient of several scholarships and awards over the past year supporting his leading-edge research in understanding the integrated mechanisms that regulate human cerebral blood flow in both health and disease.

Student unlocks secrets to blood flow in brain

By Patty Wellborn on December 1, 2011

Research excellence fuels global quest to understand disease links

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Award-winning author Karen Connelly is UBC's writer-in-residence

Award-winning author Karen Connelly is UBC's writer-in-residence

By Patty Wellborn on November 30, 2011

Students, Central Okanagan writers get opportunity to have work critiqued

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