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UBCO graduate students race against the clock to present their research

UBCO graduate students race against the clock to present their research

By Patty Wellborn on March 23, 2021

The community is invited to attend the eighth annual UBC Okanagan Three Minute Thesis (3MT) final. The popular competition returns March 30 in an all-new live virtual format.

Posted in Spotlight, Media Advisory | Tagged College of Graduate Studies

UBCO researcher recommends systematic approach to forest and water supply management

UBCO researcher recommends systematic approach to forest and water supply management

By Patty Wellborn on March 22, 2021

As World Water Day is observed around the globe, new research from UBC Okanagan suggests a systematic approach to forest and water supply research may yield an improved assessment and understanding of connections between the two.

Posted in Media Releases, Spotlight | Tagged Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, Research

Black scientists share perspectives on science and systemic racism

Black scientists share perspectives on science and systemic racism

By Patty Wellborn on March 18, 2021

UBC’s Okanagan campus is hosting a free public webinar to share the perspectives of three inspiring Black scientists in the final event of a three-part series on science and systemic racism. 

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic

A team of researchers has determined the declining caribou population is part of a natural chain reaction from forest harvesting which can attract predators and competition for food. Photo by: Caribou Monitoring Unit

Declining caribou population victim of ecological chain reaction

By Patty Wellborn on March 18, 2021

A new study comparing decades of environmental monitoring records has confirmed that Canada’s caribou are not faring as well as other animals like moose and wolves in the same areas—and also teased out why. 

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Biology, College of Graduate Studies, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, Research

Dr. Jian Liu conducts research in materials and interface design for next-generation battery technologies.

Keeping up with the charge to develop better batteries

By Patty Wellborn on March 16, 2021

With increasing global efforts to adopt clean energy, developing sustainable storage systems has become a major challenge in getting electric vehicles on the road and integrating intermittent renewable energy resources into the grid.

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

The newly-created MOTIVATE-T2D team will connect people living with Type 2 diabetes with health specialists through wearable technology and online exercise coaching.

International team to provide at-home training for patients with diabetes

By Patty Wellborn on March 15, 2021

A UBC Okanagan professor is the Canadian lead for a 13-person team that recently won an internationally-competitive one million dollar award to accelerate diabetes research.

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

The art of BFA students Pip Dryden and Avery Ullyot-Comrie shares studio space with Professor Briar Craig in UBCO’s Fina Gallery during the Spring Festival of the Arts.

Celebrate the season with the Spring Festival of the Arts

By Patty Wellborn on March 9, 2021

UBC Okanagan’s Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies’ (FCCS) Spring Festival of the Arts brings a myriad of exhibits and events to the Kelowna area. The festival covers a spectrum of artistic endeavours by students, faculty and staff including exhibitions of creative writing, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, short films and public art.

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

UBC Okanagan’s Problematic Substance Use Clinic offer low-barrier options for treatment. It offers virtual treatment options and structures fees on a sliding scale based on patients’ income.

UBCO’s substance use clinic accepting new patients virtually

By Patty Wellborn on March 4, 2021

As we pass the one-year mark of living with the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s little doubt the virus has taken its toll on the mental health of many Canadians.

Posted in Media Releases, Spotlight | Tagged College of Graduate Studies, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Psychology, Research

Third-year UBCO nursing student Thomas Pool, a trained FTIR technician, checks a drug sample during a harm-reduction session on campus.

UBCO and Interior Health offer free, confidential drug checking

By Patty Wellborn on March 4, 2021

UBC Okanagan’s Harm Reduction Team, in partnership with Interior Health, is taking its confidential drug-checking service to communities across the region in an effort to save lives.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Campus Health, Health

UBCO researchers are concerned about how the actions of some scientists, advocacy groups and the public are eroding efforts to conserve biodiversity, including grizzly bears, wild bees and salmon.

Misinformation, polarization impeding environmental protection efforts

By Patty Wellborn on March 4, 2021

A group of researchers, spanning six universities and three continents, are sounding the alarm on a topic not often discussed in the context of conservation—misinformation.

Posted in Media Releases, Spotlight | Tagged Biology, College of Graduate Studies, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, Research

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