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Campus Life

UBC professor receives grant to improve cancer survivors' health

Oct 22, 2014 / 12:00 am

Canadian Cancer Society contributes $199,780 for Canada-wide research Cristina Caperchione has received a $199,780 grant from the Canadian Cancer Society to...

Registration opens for popular 3-Hour Short Story Contest

Oct 21, 2014 / 8:54 am

Okanagan College Media Release Okanagan College is calling all budding writers to exercise their creativity and participate in the 3-Hour Short Story Contest...

Award-winning photographer reveals rarely seen spectacular and threatened B.C. landscape

Oct 21, 2014 / 8:47 am

Okanagan College Media Release The Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia is globally renowned for its astonishing biodiversity. Encompassing 21 million...

Mini-Med lecture series has focus on technology, health innovation

Oct 21, 2014 / 12:00 am

UBC Okanagan offers opportunities to learn about medical discoveries UBC’s popular health-education series is back starting Oct. 28 – with a special focus...

Do you think of ink?

Oct 15, 2014 / 2:30 pm

Okanagan College Media Release For as many books, magazines, and newspapers that you have read, you may never have asked yourself about the social life of ink....

UBC Biology’s Birds calendar takes off again

Oct 7, 2014 / 12:00 am

A male and female western bluebird pair check out a likely prospect in the ponderosa pine forest at UBC's Okanagan campus, as seen in the Birds of the UBC...

Residential Construction students use skills to support local family

Oct 6, 2014 / 2:58 pm

Okanagan College Media Release A team of 15 Okanagan College trades students put their skills to good use for a worthy cause this summer. The students, who...

Alex Janvier is UBC artist-in-residence from Oct. 4 to 17

Oct 3, 2014 / 12:00 am

Celebrated Aboriginal artist Alex Janvier is UBC’s artist-in-residence. Celebrated artist to create new works, includes exhibition at Kelowna Art Gallery Alex...

Front row seating encourages cultural diversity by ‘accident’

Oct 3, 2014 / 12:00 am

Management professor John Burton recently moved students Mark Brandle, Samin Mahmood, Michael Flaherty-Specht and David Rogas to the front row of his classroom...

Auto sector support vital to successful $2.5 million launch of campaign to revamp Okanagan College’s Trades Training Complex

Oct 2, 2014 / 11:52 am

Okanagan College Media Release The Okanagan College Foundation campaign to raise funds for a new Trades Training Complex at the Kelowna campus has kicked off...

Dr. Heather Banham receives the CGA Association’s highest honour

Oct 2, 2014 / 11:03 am

Okanagan College Media Release The Dean of Okanagan College’s School of Business, Dr. Heather Banham, has been awarded the highest honour that can be bestowed...

Bubble tea: creating cultural diversity at UBC one cup at a time

Oct 2, 2014 / 12:00 am

Alden Habacon, UBC’s Director of Intercultural Understanding Strategy Development, enjoys a bubble tea with Jenica Frisque, from UBC Okanagan’s Equity and...

College to host, compete in Young Chefs challenge

Sep 29, 2014 / 4:00 pm

Okanagan College Media Release The Young Chefs competition will return to Okanagan College next month as part of the Fall Okanagan Wine Festival’s series of...

B.C. Wine Information Society Sensory Centre to be new home for judging Okanagan Wine Festivals’ B.C. Wine Awards

Sep 25, 2014 / 8:20 am

Okanagan College Media Release As Okanagan College and friends were celebrating the opening of the new B.C. Wine Information Society Sensory Centre at the...

B.C. Wine Information Society Sensory Centre a College success even as it is officially opened

Sep 25, 2014 / 8:18 am

Okanagan College Media Release As Okanagan College celebrates the official opening of the B.C. Wine Information Society Sensory Centre at its Penticton campus,...

UBC hosts international Get to Know Unconference

Sep 25, 2014 / 12:00 am

Youth finalists from across North America will attend the Get to Know Unconference Oct. 3 to 5, hosted by UBC. Youth finalists present statements about eco-art...

Joint survey seeks daycare input

Sep 23, 2014 / 2:17 pm

Okanagan College Media Release The Penticton and District Community Resources Society and Okanagan College are looking for community input to help determine the...

Photographer Edward Burtynsky presents Landscape of Human Systems

Sep 23, 2014 / 12:00 am

Award-winning photographer Edward Burtynsky collects images from an oilfield. His October 22 presentation, Landscape of Human Systems, is part of UBC...

UBC professor introduces Maker Days to African educators

Sep 22, 2014 / 12:00 am

Two master of education students from Aga Khan University discuss their Maker Day project assigned to them by UBC’s Susan Crichton during the Maker Days...

UBC signs cooperation agreement with top university in Brazil

Sep 17, 2014 / 12:00 am

School of Nursing partners with University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College Patricia Marck, director of the School of Nursing Enhancements in research...

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