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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

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Writer in Residence | Leave a response

Chris Rigg, left, with Capri Insurance, Heat basketball player Julian Asselstine, Tim Miller of Capri Insurance and Heat head coach Darren Semeniuk. Asselstine received the Capri Insurance Athletics Entrance Scholarship.

Asselstine wins prestigious Capri Insurance scholarship

By Darren Handschuh on November 30, 2011

Heat basketball player honoured to be selected

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Athletics, Heat, Learning | Leave a response

Ricardo Scebba from Ricardo’s Mediterranean Kitchen was at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus to give some tips on healthy eating.

Healthy food demonstrations part of Be Well at Work program

By Darren Handschuh on November 28, 2011

This November, the Be Well at Work project held two Fall Food Tasting events at UBC’s Okanagan campus

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention, School of Health and Exercise Sciences | Leave a response

Joe Nemeth, president and CEO of Canfor Pulp Products Inc., presents a $75,000 grant award to André Phillion, Mark Martinez, and James Olson, director of the Pulp and Paper Centre at UBC.

Engineering team wins grant for investigating paper architecture

By Patty Wellborn on November 25, 2011

UBC collaboration with Canfor to study BC pulp fibres using X-ray technology

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Business, School of Engineering | Leave a response

Homespun hospitality drives UBC Alumni fundraiser

By Patty Wellborn on November 24, 2011

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner events across Okanagan support student bursaries

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Alumni | Leave a response

Lee Maingot, left, Jasmain Parr, Faculty of Management Professor Luc Audebrand, and Kayla Mann with UBC's Faculty of Management go over some of the information that will be provided to area businesses during the What Makes a Top Employer? expo

Business students want to make local companies even better

By Darren Handschuh on November 24, 2011

What Makes a Top Employer? event culmination of hours of research

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Business, Faculty of Management | Leave a response

Nursing students stage gala to support Africa health projects

By Patty Wellborn on November 23, 2011

Fundraiser will help provide medical supplies and education in Ghana, Zambia

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing | Leave a response

Gord Binsted, left, Acting Dean, Faculty of Health and Social Development at UBC’s Okanagan campus, Lauren Sugie of Calgary, second-year nursing student, Loyd Busby, nurse manager, Kelowna General Hospital 4A and Associate Professor Wendy Andrews, of UBC’s School of Nursing, review a patient chart during a clinical learning session. Binsted spent a day in the hospital with the nursing students and was impressed with what he saw.

Dean rolls up sleeves to work in hospital ward with nursing students

By Patty Wellborn on November 23, 2011

UBC academic gets first-hand experience in clinical learning

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Faculty of Health and Social Development, Health, School of Nursing | Leave a response

Appearing in Gold Mountain Dream, (from left) Yu-Chen Wang, media artists Kenneth Newby and Aleksandra Dulic of the Flicker Arts Collaboratory, and Orchid Ensemble members Jonathan Bernard and Lan Tung.

World premiere of musical collaboration on Chinese culture

By Patty Wellborn on November 21, 2011

Staging of Gold Mountain Dream takes place in Kelowna

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Minds and Music | Leave a response

Neil Eves, associate professor with the School of Health and Exercise Sciences and Michael Smith Clinical Scholar in cardiorespiratory physiology, is co-director of the Centre for Heart, Lung and Vascular Health.

UBC researcher breaks new ground on COPD

By Darren Handschuh on November 17, 2011

Neil Eves examines influence of exercise on respiratory disease

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Faculty of Health and Social Development, Health, School of Health and Exercise Sciences | Leave a response

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UBC Okanagan Events

4th Year BFA Graduation Exhibition Closing Reception
Source: FCCSHappening on Apr 21
Faculty Pension Plan seminar: Understanding Your Retirement Income Options
Source: Personal and Professional DevelopmentHappening on Apr 30
3rd Annual Student Okanagan Film Festival
Source: FCCSHappening on Apr 30
A Partnership in Research Presentation - Public health responses to the overdose emergency
Source: IHLCDPHappening on May 01
The Milkcraters of the Moon Reading Series
Source: FCCSHappening on May 01
Microsoft Visio
Source: Personal and Professional DevelopmentHappening on May 02
MS Office Word Expert
Source: Personal and Professional DevelopmentHappening on May 03

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