Patty Wellborn

Sarah Bryant has received the Options for Sexual Health Volunteer of the Year Award. The Master of Arts in Education student at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus is passionate about volunteering and helping others.

Passion for helping others leads to award

By Patty Wellborn on October 27, 2011

UBC student Sarah Bryan volunteers with Options for Sexual Health

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Faculty of Education, Health

Community research projects featured at UBC grant forum

By Patty Wellborn on October 20, 2011

Sustainability issues highlight campus initiatives in Glenmore neighbourhood

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Sustainability

UBC campus activities planned for Social Justice Week

By Patty Wellborn on September 30, 2011

A Celebration of Non-Violent Action commemorates global struggles

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Arts, Cultural Studies, Student Life

Barb Pesut, UBC Okanagan campus nursing professor and Canada Research Chair in Health, Ethics and Diversity

UBC researcher a cornerstone of BC's palliative care initiative

By Patty Wellborn on September 28, 2011

Canada Research Chair Barb Pesut participates in study with academic and practicing nurses

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

UBC alumnus and Kelowna lawyer Ross Langford officially launched a $100-million fundraising campaign at the Okanagan campus Thursday. Langford is the chairman of the start an evolution campaign that has already raised $52 million.

UBC's Okanagan campus launches $100 million fundraising campaign

By Patty Wellborn on September 22, 2011

Start an evolution combines philanthropy, alumni, community engagement goals

Posted in Media Releases

Konyerem Tobechukwu Achimole-Ibe and Samantha Batliner are enjoying their second year as foreign students at UBC’s Okanagan campus.

World, meet the Okanagan

By Patty Wellborn on September 7, 2011

More students from around the world are experiencing Canadian living at UBC’s Okanagan campus

Posted in News Features | Tagged UBC Reports

Highlights of what's new at UBC's Okanagan campus this September:

By Patty Wellborn on September 2, 2011

Information about individual faculties, deans, schools, new academic staff and more.

Posted in Media Advisory

Record enrolment fuels UBC’s Okanagan campus growth

By Patty Wellborn on September 2, 2011

New faculty, buildings and program expansions highlight return to classes.

Posted in Media Releases

University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus Staff Award recipients, from left, Russell LaMountain, Sustainability award; Craig Eden, Enhancing the UBC Experience; Teija Wakeman, Leadership; and Deputy Vice Chancellor and Principal award winner Shelley Kayfish. Missing from the photo is Garry Appleton, winner of the Staff Award for Global Citizenship.

UBC's Okanagan campus honours its own

By Patty Wellborn on September 1, 2011

Awards recognize contribution and dedication of faculty and staff

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Staff Awards of Excellence

Jennifer Gustar, head of Critical Studies: “All of us have felt attracted to monsters at some level, both as a way of understanding the darker elements of our psyches, but also as a way of creating ‘us’ and ‘them’ dichotomies.”

UBC unleashes Monsters in free public seminar series