For many, it’s one of the biggest milestones of their lives—graduating from university. At UBC’s Okanagan campus, nearly 1,650 students will reach that milestone this week as the university gears up for six convocation ceremonies.
The development of education as a business can lead to over-worked faculty and poorly-trained students, a UBC study has determined.
A UBC professor is combining her love of languages, and her Hollywood connections, to help create a new documentary film.
The Centre for India and South Asia Research has awarded the 2010 Nehru Humanitarian Award to doctoral student M. Anwar Hossen...
Naomi McPherson, associate professor of anthropology at UBC's Okanagan campus, has been named the next editor-in-chief of Anthropologica, the Journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society. McPherson will succeed current editor-in-chief Andrew Lyons, professor emeritus of anthropology at Wilfrid Laurier University. In making the announcement, the executive board of the Canadian Anthropology Society described McPherson as […]
Anthropology Professor Diana French, acting head of the Community, Culture and Global Studies Unit at UBC's Okanagan campus, has won Public Anthropology’s Eleanor Roosevelt Global Citizenship Award. Named to honour the 20th century's "First Lady of the World," the award recognizes French's exceptionally effective participation in Public Anthropology’s Community Action Online Project, as well as […]
Chara DeVolder is helping preserve an Indigenous language by putting it into written form for the first time.