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Mary Jung, assistant professor with the School of Health and Exercise Sciences.

New Year, new research offers hope for curbing old habits

By Patty Wellborn on January 27, 2015

UBC prof. provides five tactics for sticking with a healthy exercise routine.

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UBC looks for community input on long-term campus options

By Patty Wellborn on January 26, 2015

Okanagan Campus Master Plan review is underway

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Award-winning writer and broadcaster Jay Ingram is UBC Okanagan’s next distinguished speaker. He will discuss the science of Alzheimer’s on Wednesday, February 25 at the Kelowna Community Theatre.

Award-winning Jay Ingram speaks about the science of Alzheimer’s

By Patty Wellborn on January 26, 2015

UBC Okanagan’s Distinguished Speaker Series tackles mystery of the tragic illness.

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UBC Okanagan’s Recreation Fitness Coordinator Crystal Westgate and Heat soccer player Logan Ellis in the Hangar.

UBC’s Recreation team lands professional western conference

By Patty Wellborn on January 23, 2015

Western Canadian Campus Recreation Conference comes to the Okanagan.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Athletics, Student Life | Leave a response

UBC opens the door to talk about Men’s Sheds

By Patty Wellborn on January 22, 2015

Panel discussion will provide details to help improve wellness for local men.

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

Yukon Paleontologist Grant Zazula will be at UBC Okanagan Tuesday, January 27 to share his knowledge about the creatures that once roamed the territory’s landscape.

Visiting paleontologist brings history of Yukon’s mammals to UBC

By Patty Wellborn on January 22, 2015

Woolly mammoths and ancient camels can teach us about climate change

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

Credit: Ian/Flickr

Decades-old documents to be transformed into easily sharable digital data

By Patty Wellborn on January 22, 2015

Constance Crompton is turning decades-old documents into searchable digital data to take the history therein from obscure to widely shareable.

Posted in News Features | Tagged Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Learning | Leave a response

Erin McPhee was the first student to register for UBC Okanagan’s revised Master of Science in Nursing program.

UBC Okanagan launches revised Master of Science in Nursing program

By Patty Wellborn on January 21, 2015

School of Nursing introduces new blended learning format to graduate students.

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

UBC Okanagan students Alan Freund, Andry Ramorasata, Lauren Gaudet, and Mallory Herzog are ready with stickers and brochures for Denim Day on campus Wednesday, January 21. Denim Day is part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month on campus

UBC students wear denim and take a stand against sexual assault

By Patty Wellborn on January 20, 2015

Denim Days comes to campus with Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

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With the smartphone lab prototype, from left, Engineering Instructor Ali Ahmadi, PhD Candidate Mohamed Yafia Salem, Assoc. Prof. Homayoun Najjaran, and mechanical engineering student Jessica Van Brummelen

UBC engineers develop biochem point-of-care lab for smartphones

By Bud Mortenson on January 20, 2015

UBC Okanagan takes lab on a chip technology to a new inexpensive level.

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

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