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UBC instructor uses math to investigate possibility of time travel

By Patty Wellborn on April 27, 2017

Mathematical model of a TARDIS takes the 'fiction' out of science fiction.

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The 2017 Okanagan Short Story Contest winners, from left: Karen Hofmann, Michael Griffin, UBC Writer in Residence Renée Sarojini Saklikar and Cliff Hatcher.

Kamloops writer wins UBC’s Okanagan annual short story contest

By Patty Wellborn on April 19, 2017

UBC Writer in Residence Renée Sarojini Saklikar unveiled the winners of the 2017 Okanagan Short Story Contest Tuesday night in the Great Room at the Kelowna branch of the Okanagan Regional Library.

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Vlisco wax-print dress from the “Hommage à L’Art” collection, 2013. Inge van Lierop, designer. Courtesy Vlisco Museum, Foundation Pieter Fentener van Vlissingen, Helmond, the Netherlands.

UBC professor curates international exhibit of African print fashion

By Patty Wellborn on April 18, 2017

African stylishness and cosmopolitanism, past and present, is on display in a major exhibition curated by UBC professor Suzanne Gott at the Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Okanagan Short Story Contest winners announced April 18

By Patty Wellborn on April 13, 2017

It’s down to three finalists in the 2017 Okanagan Short Story contest, organized by UBC Okanagan’s Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies.

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UBC researchers connect common fats to a lazy lifestyle and diabetes

By Patty Wellborn on April 12, 2017

A UBC researcher is suggesting the types of cooking oils people consume may be sabotaging their efforts to stay healthy and avoid illnesses such as diabetes.

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Kids can ‘dream big’ about the world of engineering on the big screen

By Patty Wellborn on April 11, 2017

Who will build the amazing future for our human race? What cool solutions will we develop next? UBC Okanagan’s School of Engineering hosts Dream Big: Engineering Our World with the aim to inspire kids to become the innovators, educators and leaders who will improve the lives of people across the entire planet.

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Bachelor of Fine Arts student Ben Arcega works on a painting in his studio. Ben’s work is part of the BFA graduation exhibition taking place at UBC starting on April 13.

Graduating students host art and interdisciplinary performance exhibition

By Patty Wellborn on April 10, 2017

Do Not Erase, an exhibition featuring emerging artists and performers in their graduating year, takes over the Creative and Critical Studies building on the UBC Okanagan campus for 12 busy and entertaining days in April.

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Rebecca Tyson’s research offers a new analytical tool which can provide estimates of how far bee pollen will travel. Photo credit: Bob Lalonde, associate professor of biology.

New tool can help estimate genetically modified pollen spread

By Christine Zeindler on April 10, 2017

Food purists may have cause to celebrate thanks to a recent international study directed by the University of British Columbia. The study, which evaluated the spread of genetically modified (GM) organisms to non-modified crops, has implications from farm to family.

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UBC President Santa Ono shares a laugh with the audience during the Valley First/UBC Okanagan Athletics Scholarship Breakfast Friday morning.

UBC raises more than $75,000 at annual athletic scholarship breakfast

By Patty Wellborn on April 7, 2017

It was a morning of accolades, accomplishments and astonishments at the Valley First/UBC Okanagan Athletics Scholarship Breakfast Friday morning.

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Management students (from left) Jonathan Donahoe, Alan Blackwell, Kirsten Haayer and Olivia Johnson hold the Argus Cup after winning the 2017 Live Case Challenge.

Green juice captures UBC’s Live Case Challenge, and wins $5,000

By Patty Wellborn on April 7, 2017

Canned healthy drinks, starting with a range of quality greens you can drink on the go, was the winning idea in this year’s Live Case Challenge, held by UBC’s Faculty of Management Thursday.

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