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Mini-Med lecture series has focus on technology, health innovation

By Patty Wellborn on October 21, 2014

UBC Okanagan offers opportunities to learn about medical discoveries

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Health, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Southern Medical Program

UBC presents free webinar on euthanasia physician-assisted suicide

By Patty Wellborn on October 15, 2014

The topics of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are in the forefront of ethical health-care debate in Western society. Yet if these practices were legalized, questions remain about who would ask for them and why.

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged Health, Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention

The Honourable Michelle Rempel, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, on Tuesday announced funding of $3.801 million to establish the Survive and Thrive Applied Research (STAR) facility at UBC’s Okanagan campus in Kelowna.

UBC receives $3.8M for Survive and Thrive Applied Research facility

By Bud Mortenson on October 14, 2014

UBC has launched a new research innovation facility where industry and university researchers can pool their knowledge to rapidly develop novel technologies for human protection, survivability and performance in extreme or remote conditions.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Business, STAR

UBC students to examine healthy living options for Okanagan region

By Patty Wellborn on October 10, 2014

Population growth statistics confirm that the Central Okanagan is proving to be a much-desired place to live. A UBC professor has tasked his third-year management students to take an in-depth look into the region and examine a list of community development concerns.

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged Faculty of Management, Learning, Sustainability

Free lectures offered as part of Renaissance conference

By Patty Wellborn on October 8, 2014

Ever wonder how terrestrial globes came about? Or the influences of Islamic cultures of North Africa and the Middle East on the European Renaissance period?

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged Learning

UBC Assoc. Prof. Rob Young stands beside the skeleton of a short-faced bear, an extinct carnivore that is known as an ice age super predator. Young is giving a public lecture about post-dinosaur landscape erosion in the Alberta Badlands on October 15.

Have the Alberta Badlands changed since the day of the dinosaur?

By Patty Wellborn on October 8, 2014

UBC professor demonstrates why the landscape is a forever-changing fabric.

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

Visiting authors Karen Hofmann, Sean Johnston to give readings Oct. 15

By Patty Wellborn on October 8, 2014

Authors Karen Hofmann and Sean Johnston will give readings of their works on Wednesday, October 15, 7 p.m. at the Okanagan Regional Library, 1380 Ellis St., Kelowna as part of UBC’s Visiting Author Series.

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

Performer/director Deanna Fleysher plays the gender-troubled title character Butt Kapinksi

Butt Kapinski brings improv theatre noir to UBC

By Patty Wellborn on October 8, 2014

Performer/director Deanna Fleysher plays the gender-troubled title character Butt Kapinksi -- a noir-loving buffoon who wades into crowds to solve mysteries.

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

A street performance of Geisha Gyrl: Salmon Run, takes place in downtown Kelowna Friday, October 10, at 4 p.m.

Geisha Gyrl appears in Kelowna street performance Friday, Oct. 10

By Patty Wellborn on October 7, 2014

After a long seasonal hibernation, the performance artist Geisha Gyrl emerges from a summer slumber for her first Kelowna-based performance. This is about cultural shifts, gender flux, transgenics, land, and water.

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