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.
Exploring Ecology at the Molecular Level
The Galápagos islands — where Charles Darwin first found evidence that would lead to his theory of natural selection — became a little more diverse last summer. Michael Russello and research colleagues from Yale University used mitochondrial and nuclear DNA analyses to identify previously unknown genetic diversity among the endangered tortoises in that remote Pacific archipelago.
Academic Collaboration Lighting Up UBC Okanagan
Interdisciplinary programs put health, fine arts and more in the mix Painting, sculpture and other fine arts may seem an unlikely match with health education, but that unusual combination is happening at UBC Okanagan. It’s part of a vision shared by Joan Bottorff, Dean of Faculty of Health and Social Development, and Robert Belton, Dean […]