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Capri Insurance’s Tim Miller and Robin Durrant congratulate student athlete Buster Truss (centre) on being the sixth recipient of the annual Capri Insurance Athletics Entrance Scholarship.

UBC student thankful for opportunity to combine sport with school

By Patty Wellborn on April 30, 2015

Basketball player receives Capri Insurance Athletics Entrance Scholarship.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Athletics, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, Student Life

Lisa Castle vice-president UBC Human Resources, (left) and Deborah Buszard deputy vice-chancellor and principal of UBC Okanagan, (third from left) congratulate Jan Gattrell, Connie Neid, Edward Neeland, Paul Phillips, Michael Treschow, Alan Davidson, Melanie Jones, and Paul Gabias for their reaching the 25-year milestone in their careers.

UBC Okanagan honours professors and staff for years of service

By Patty Wellborn on April 29, 2015

Decades of employment to post-secondary sector celebrated at annual event

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, School of Social Work, UBC Library

UBC Okanagan medical student Maksim Parfyonov, second from right, leads the weekly art class with Connect residents Amadee Hollowink, Glen O’Connor, and Matthew McKay.

Medical student creates art classes for people living with brain injuries

By Patty Wellborn on April 28, 2015

New idea tackles depression and social isolation while creating useable art work.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Health, Southern Medical Program

Distinguished biomedical innovator to lead research at UBC Okanagan

By Patty Wellborn on April 28, 2015

Molecular biologist Philip Barker from McGill University appointed Vice-Principal Research

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, Learning, Vice-Principal Research

Alex Bond, a member of the first class of graduates from UBC’s Southern Medical Program, will be the student speaker at a special event Monday to mark the occasion of the graduation of the province’s newest doctors.

UBC’s Southern Medical Program graduates first class of students

By Warren Brock on April 27, 2015

First group of medical doctors trained in the B.C. Interior begin residency training

Posted in Media Releases, Spotlight | Tagged Health, Southern Medical Program

Healthy Cities Partnership seeks input

By Patty Wellborn on April 27, 2015

UBC Okanagan’s Okanagan Sustainability Institute has partnered with the City of Kelowna to study resident attitudes towards growth in Kelowna.

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged Faculty of Management, Okanagan Sustainability Institute, Sustainability

UBC’s Southern Medical Program celebrates first-ever graduating class

By Patty Wellborn on April 23, 2015

Thirty brand-new doctors begin residency programs across the country.

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged Health, Southern Medical Program

UBC Okanagan Canada Research Chair Barb Pesut and Health Navigator Brenda Hooper look over a workbook created to help train volunteer health navigators to work with chronically ill seniors living in rural communities.

UBC study finds nurse 'navigators' play vital role in senior care

By Patty Wellborn on April 21, 2015

Retired baby boomers—professionals looking for something meaningful to do during retirement—might be the answer to helping seniors with chronic illness live independent lives.

A three-year study conducted by researchers at UBC Okanagan has determined that with the help of a trained professional to navigate their health care, chronically ill seniors in rural communities are able to maintain better, healthier lives than those without help.

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

UBC Okanagan faculty Researcher of the Year Abbas Milani, right, discusses his work with student Andrew Olson.

NASA research to be presented at UBC advanced materials workshop

By Patty Wellborn on April 21, 2015

The Okanagan Node of the Composites Research Network at UBC’s School of Engineering is holding its second annual industrial workshop on composites manufacturing.

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged Business, School of Engineering

Petra-Celli Kanbour measures wall space for her print-making exhibit at Shelf Life, an exhibition of bachelor of fine arts graduates majoring in visual arts.

Shelf Life exhibit showcases UBC visual arts students' works

By Patty Wellborn on April 20, 2015

UBC Okanagan’s Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies presents Shelf Life, an exhibition of bachelor of fine arts graduates majoring in visual arts.

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

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