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Joan Bottorff, Professor in the School of Nursing, UBC Okanagan and Director of the Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention, John Oliffe, Professor in the School of Nursing, UBC Vancouver, Gayl Sarbit, Knowledge Broker, UBC Okanagan and Aimei Mao, Postdoctoral student at UBC are pictured here with Dr. Tingzhong Yang, Professor/Director, Centre for Tobacco Control Research at Zhejiang University, School of Medicine.

UBC professors join China's tobacco research centre

By Patty Wellborn on December 19, 2013

Two UBC professors have been invited to join China’s Centre for Tobacco Control Research as International Senior Consultants.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Faculty of Health and Social Development, Health, Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention | Leave a response

Bob Rymarchuk and Phyllis MacPherson, chairperson of the Lake Country Food Assistance Society, stack canned goods at the Lake Country Food Bank.

UBC teams up with Okanagan College to help Lake Country

By Patty Wellborn on December 18, 2013

Community works together to plan new building for the food bank.

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

Selkirk College nursing instructor Tammy McLean will co-lead a six-month study with UBC researchers on care for those with a chronic, long-term illness and their families.

UBC, Selkirk College team up to help those with serious chronic illness

By Patty Wellborn on December 16, 2013

With increasing numbers of Canadians living with serious chronic illnesses, health care experts are looking for ways to make life easier for them and their caregivers.

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

UBC students Lisa Santos and Michael Archambault flank Kelowna Korean War veteran George Barr.

Korean War veterans share experiences with UBC students

By Patty Wellborn on December 11, 2013

Local Korean War veterans told their stories about “the forgotten war” to UBC students in a community learning project that brought generations together.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, Learning, Mary Ann Murphy | Leave a response

UBC’s S-FRAME Software Laboratory to be dedicated Thursday Dec. 12

By Patty Wellborn on December 10, 2013

UBC’s new S-FRAME Software Laboratory will be dedicated at UBC’s Okanagan campus on Thursday, December 12, at 3 p.m. in Room EME 2205, of the Engineering Management Education building.

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

Global poverty is subject of Alterknowledge discussion

By Patty Wellborn on December 9, 2013

Every holiday season, the 1985 Band Aid fundraising song, Do They Know It’s Christmas?, returns to the airwaves, despite years of criticism of the initiative as a simplistic representation of the Ethiopian famine and insensitivity of the song’s lyrics.

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Learning | Leave a response

Hugo De Burgos accepting his award as one of Canada’s 10 Most Influential Hispanic Canadians

Hugo De Burgos named among Canada’s Most Influential Hispanics

By Patty Wellborn on December 9, 2013

UBC assistant professor a role model for visible minorities.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences | 6 Responses

Christina Turi is investigating the potential medicinal properties of common sagebrush.

Chemical complexity of plants sprouts to life in UBC science lab

By Patty Wellborn on December 3, 2013

Christina Turi works like a detective – the clues she follows uncover mysteries of the plant world.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged College of Graduate Studies, Health, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences | Leave a response

UBC research study looks at muscle change in healthy, older adults

By Patty Wellborn on December 2, 2013

The UBC Healthy Exercise and Aging Lab Group in the Faculty of Health and Social Development is looking for healthy older adults, aged 65 to 95 years, to participate in a study on muscle change and physical activity.

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