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BREAKING GROUND: A research partnership involving partners from industry has broken ground in Kelowna. From left, MLA Norm Letnick, Scott Tyerman of AuthenTech Homes, Karin Eger-Blenk and Russ Foster of the Blenk Development Corp., Jim Hamilton of Okanagan College, Deborah Buszard of UBC Okanagan, Carol Suhan of FortisBC, and MP Stephen Fuhr helped mark the occasion.

Home of the future Living Lab project started in Wilden subdivision

By Matthew Grant on March 31, 2016

An energy-efficiency research project involving industry, UBC and Okanagan College broke ground today.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Business, Research, School of Engineering

Second-year School of Engineering students Kaitie, Darryl, and Peter put the finishing touches on their Mars Lander that will be tested at the year-end competition Friday morning.

School of Engineering braces for busy end of academic year

By Patty Wellborn on March 31, 2016

As the academic year winds to close, students at UBC Okanagan’s School of Engineering are gearing up for a busy final week of projects and presentations.

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged Learning, School of Engineering

Wilden Living Lab breaks ground

By Matthew Grant on March 29, 2016

Industry and post-secondary partners in the Wilden Living Lab project will mark the official groundbreaking of an energy-efficiency research project designed to measure the impact of sustainable building materials in residential construction.

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged School of Engineering

John-Tyler Binfet works with a student at a local elementary school.

Girls recognize kindness in schools more than boys, UBC study shows

By Patty Wellborn on March 24, 2016

Girls between the ages of 9 and 13 perceive kindness in school more than boys, research from UBC's Okanagan campus shows.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Faculty of Education, Learning, Research

UBC Faculty of Management students Cat Bootle, Michael Bitcon and Brad Curtiss won $2,000 and the first-place title at the CPABC Case Competition.

Accounting students add up awards

By Matthew Grant on March 23, 2016

Delivering what the customer needs, not wants, has earned UBC’s Faculty of Management students top honours at a provincial competition for accounting.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Faculty of Management, Learning

Immigrant entrepreneurs more confident about their future than those born in Canada

By Matthew Grant on March 23, 2016

Immigrant entrepreneurs are more optimistic about doing business in Kelowna than those born in Canada, a UBC study shows.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Business, Community Culture and Global Studies, Faculty of Management, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, Research

Award-winning writers Dania Tomlinson, left, and Bronwyn Berg at the 2016 Okanagan Short Story Contest ceremony.

'Heartbreaking' story wins 2016 Okanagan Short Story Contest

By Patty Wellborn on March 22, 2016

Creative writing that tugged the heartstrings of award-winning fiction writer Tamas Dobozy won this year’s Okanagan Short Story Contest.

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

UBCO's Motorsports team prepares their car for the road ahead.

UBC Okanagan enters formula racing

By Matthew Grant on March 21, 2016

For the first time ever, students at UBC’s Okanagan campus are building a race car and getting ready to go after the checkered flag in the Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE) student design competition.

Posted in Media Releases, Spotlight | Tagged Learning, School of Engineering

World Water Day opens discussion about valley drought and floods

By Patty Wellborn on March 18, 2016

UBC’s Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, and Ecosystems Services, together with the Okanagan Basin Water Board and Okanagan WaterWise is marking World Water Day with a special panel presentation titled exSTREAMS: The Okanagan water story and you.

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged BRAES, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, Sustainability