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Short list announced for Okanagan Short Fiction contest

By Patty Wellborn on February 26, 2015

More than 90 entries for 17th annual story contest.

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

UBC Okanagan graduate Jennifer Forsythe, shown with parents Tracy and Irwin, was the winner of the Three Minute Thesis competition at Celebrate Research week 2014.

Popular three-minute thesis contest returns to UBC campus

By Patty Wellborn on February 26, 2015

Precision and clarity are keys to rapid-fire research presentations.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged College of Graduate Studies

UBC celebrates the research, and those who are making a difference

UBC celebrates the research, and those who are making a difference

By Patty Wellborn on February 25, 2015

Full week of activities highlights students, professors, and projects that matter

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Celebrate Research Week, College of Graduate Studies, Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention, Learning, Research, School of Health and Exercise Sciences

UBC students explore the role of art in social justice activism

By Patty Wellborn on February 19, 2015

Creative action projects demonstrate how media and art affect social justice.

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

Students Charlie Drummond and Christy Hui have organized BARK2GO and will station volunteers and therapy dogs in three different locations across UBC’s Okanagan campus every Wednesday.

UBC Okanagan animal therapy program launches BARK2GO

By Allyssa Costerton-Grant on February 17, 2015

Building Academic Retention through K9s expands across campus.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Faculty of Education, Learning

Philip Currie helped found the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta (photo courtesy of The Alberta Order of Excellence).

UBC honours contributions to science of dinosaurs and distant planets

By Patty Wellborn on February 17, 2015

Paleontologist and astrophysicist to receive honorary degrees in June.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Convocation

Interior Saving’s Gene Creelman (left) poses with CRIS staff, Eric Rampone, Troy Becker, and Dawn Widdifield, along with UBC Okanagan’s Rebecca Frechette and Sally Willis-Stewart in front of a newly-delivered Parks Explorer.

Interior Savings, UBC team up to go places never thought possible

By Patty Wellborn on February 13, 2015

Adaptive outdoor cycling equipment turns disabled riders into Explorers.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Community Service Learning, Faculty of Health and Social Development, Learning, School of Health and Exercise Sciences

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.

UBC presents Jay Ingram for a second night

By Patty Wellborn on February 13, 2015

High demand in community for Alzheimer’s speaker.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Distinguished Speaker Series, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences

Heather Semeniuk has coached UBC Okanagan’s Heat women’s basketball team for the past 21 years. Photo credit: Steve Shulhan

Okanagan Heat family bids farewell to long-serving basketball coach

By Patty Wellborn on February 13, 2015

After two decades on the court, coach Semeniuk retires and hangs up the hightops.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Athletics, Heat

A medical tent, complete with a rat, shows the stark reality of medical care in many countries around the world.

UBC nursing students volunteer at Kelowna’s Global Village

By Patty Wellborn on February 12, 2015

Stage is set to teach elementary students how many kids are ‘too sick for school’

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

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