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Write on -- the Okanagan Short Story contest closes soon

By Patty Wellborn on December 20, 2012

Friday January 4 is last day for budding authors to submit their works

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Arts, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies

Greg Poitras, Head Coach, Heat Men’s Volleyball; Jim Bell, Heat Men’s Volleyball team member; Robin Durrant, Capri Insurance; Chris Rigg, Capri Insurance.

UBC volleyball player earns award for academic and athletic pursuits

By Cary Mellon on December 19, 2012

Student Jim Bell is recipient of Capri Insurance Athletics Entrance Scholarship

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Athletics, Heat, Student Life

One of the Indigenous healers featured in the documentary film, Holistic Healing in the Okanagan.

Documentary on healing premieres at UBC’s Okanagan campus

By Patty Wellborn on December 12, 2012

Culture represents many things to the human experience. Health, healing and illness are common to all cultures. In some societies, this is understood from one’s own traditional perspective, or from the wider perspective that includes the full range of human cultures and societies.

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged Arts, Health, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences

(L-R) UBC engineering students Colin Yang, Carter Merwin, Navdeep Brar, with Ken Campbell of the Myra Canyon Trestle Restoration Society and engineering students Ryan Baines and Luc Cowan.

First-year engineers use skills to help not-for-profit organizations

By Jody Jacob on December 7, 2012

Friendly student competition determines best fundraising ideas

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Learning, School of Engineering

Team members of Everest 2012: UBC’s International Research Expedition, conduct one of their human health experiments at Mount Everest’s Pyramid Lab.

Everest researchers are featured guests for Athletics Breakfast

By Patty Wellborn on December 7, 2012

UBC's Okanagan teams to benefit from April 5 fundraiser event

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Athletics, Heat

Conditions for women working in the slums of Mumbai are in the subject of new research by Kanchan Sarker.

Improving conditions for Mumbai's slum workers

By Jody Jacob on December 6, 2012

In the slums of Mumbai, millions of women and girls are helping to support their families by working from home in difficult, unsanitary conditions with minimal financial gain.

Posted in News Features | Tagged Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, UBC Reports

A mutt called Frances helps teach students at UBC's Okanagan campus

By Jody Jacob on December 4, 2012

Education professor incorporates therapy dog into curriculum and research

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Faculty of Education, Learning

UBC students share in Aboriginal scholarships

By Patty Wellborn on December 3, 2012

The Irving K. Barber British Columbia Scholarship Society, administered by the Victoria Foundation, has granted a total of $459,000 to 167 Aboriginal students in BC to support their studies at post-secondary colleges and universities throughout the province.

Posted in Media Advisory

Historian examines UBC’s role in BC's Asia-Pacific history

By Patty Wellborn on November 26, 2012

Henry Yu is involved in the collaborative effort to reimagine the history of Vancouver and of British Columbia through the concept of Pacific Canada, a perspective that focuses on how migrants from Asia, Europe, and other parts of the Americas engaged with each other and with First Nations peoples historically.

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, Learning