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Jessica Jackley

Everyone has the potential to change the world

By Darren Handschuh on January 27, 2012

Speaker inspires others to help out and do what they can

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Students from the UBC Okanagan School of Engineering pose with their while testing it out at Big White. The toboggan uses concrete runners and will be entered in the Northern Concrete Toboggan race in Calgary Feb. 8-12. (Photo courtesy of Big White)

UBC Engineering students come up with concrete idea

By Darren Handschuh on January 27, 2012

First time an Okanagan campus team will enter Concrete Toboggan event

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Susan Murch, Canada Research Chair in Natural Products Chemistry, has been awarded a $309,437 Canada Foundation for Innovation grant.

UBC scientist awarded $309,437 by Canada Foundation for Innovation

By Patty Wellborn on January 26, 2012

Susan Murch’s research measures medicinal potential of plant tissues

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Lawrence Berg was instrumental in launching ACME – An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies which is now celebrating its 10th year online.

UBC website a focal point for critical writing, intellectual discourse

By Darren Handschuh on January 24, 2012

E-journal founded a decade ago grows from risky venture to global success

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

Author Karen Connelly to read at fiction contest prize announcement

By Patty Wellborn on January 23, 2012

Shortlist narrows field to eight in popular Okanagan literary competition

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University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus Faculty of Management students Alexandra Upward, Manuel Leckel, Andreea Bianchi, Shelby Burgart and Akhil Gupta brought home a third-place trophy from the prestigious Manitoba International Marketing Competition at the University of Manitoba.

UBC Faculty of Management students bring home bronze

By Darren Handschuh on January 19, 2012

Business team beats some of the best in the world at international event

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The mysteries of the universe will be revealed during a series of public lectures about radio astronomy at UBC’s Okanagan campus.

Astronomy experts to discuss exciting future of the cosmos

By Darren Handschuh on January 18, 2012

Scholars reveal mysteries of the Invisible Universe in UBC public lectures

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Researcher Michael Russello with a tortoise that is a hybrid of a tortoise species native to Floreana Island (Chelonoidis elephantopus) some 320 kilometres away from its habitat on Isabela Island, and thought to be extinct.

UBC professor's Galápagos tortoise research published

By Patty Wellborn on January 11, 2012

International team detects descendants of species presumed extinct for 150 years

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Meshkat Javid and Jane Hollenberg are looking for bike donations for the UBCycles program. The program allows students, staff and faculty at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus to borrow a bike for a few days or an entire term, but donated bikes are needed.

UBCycles wants to get more people pedaling

By Darren Handschuh on January 10, 2012

Okanagan campus program loans bikes to campus commuters

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French and Spanish major Jace Ma, left, and Assistant Professor of Anthropology Christine Schreyer have gone online to help resurrect disappearing languages.

Disappearing languages preserved through UBC's online efforts

By Darren Handschuh on January 9, 2012

Blogs keep people talking about endangered dialects

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