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Driver Education Not Enough
Rick Clapton once believed driver training helped improve safety for motorists, but those views have taken a sharp U-turn.
Art Students Go Global
Art student Pudy Tong stood on the train station platform in Mundsburg, Germany – in the same place he stood each morning on his way to the university – and realized something had changed. The familiar female voice of the station announcer was gone. In its place, a young boy’s voice heralded the next arriving […]
Poetry Creates a Buzz on Buses
The Poetry Bus project is using poetry to promote work, transit, higher education, sustainable commuting, and local community in the Okanagan. Supported by UBC Okanagan, B.C. Transit, the Hamber Foundation and Off Centre Magazine, the project involved a contest where workers from across the Okanagan were invited to write poems about their jobs. More than […]
Network at UBC Okanagan Bringing Together Disabilities Health Researchers
The new Disabilities Health Research Network (DHRN) at UBC Okanagan is already doing what its creators hoped it would: it’s bringing researchers together. The DHRN’s co-leaders, Dr. Bonnie Sawatzky and Dr. Lawrence Berg, represent very different areas of disability research. Sawatzky is a wheelchair propulsion researcher and Assistant Professor at UBC’s Division of Orthopaedic Engineering […]
Exploring B.C.'s Black Holes
I discovered my first “black hole” 15 years ago. It was a large, circular depression — about four metres across and a metre deep — with a prominent, raised rim and it stood out in the dry grasslands of a valley I was surveying in the southern interior plateau of British Columbia.
Students Visit Catastrophic Landscape
Learning in the field for UBC Okanagan Earth and Environmental Sciences class A group of UBC Okanagan students delved into the Earth’s long-held geological secrets earlier this month, traveling to a spectacular landscape known to scientists as the Scablands, near the small town of Washtucna, Washington. There, the Palouse River cascades over stark rock cliffs […]
Ready for the Age Quake
Tomorrow’s aging population is here today in the Okanagan — and Kathryn Plancke is ready for it, thanks to a new Aging Specialization available to Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) students at UBC Okanagan’s Faculty of Health and Social Development.
University Students Make Ready, Motivated Employees
Scholars offer a great solution in a help wanted business world UBC Okanagan’s Career Services team says help is on the way for the many Central Okanagan businesses posting help wanted signs these days. A career fair is being planned for early November to help businesses tap in to student employment, but employers don’t have […]
Nursing Calls
To be sure, Heather Cook has packed a lot of experiences into her four years as a nursing student in Kelowna. After a couple of years living on campus in student residences, she became a senior residence adviser. She was a founder of the nursing course union, and served as the Student Union’s vice president of student life, then as external coordinator – an oft-quoted student advocate and spokesperson.
Borders No Barrier for Theatre Professor
When Virginie Magnat was just 15, she received a full scholarship to study at the Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific, near Victoria. She traveled from her home in Southern France and discovered on the coast of Vancouver Island a new world and a passion for theatre.