First students gearing up for all-female Metal Fabrication program

A Penticton student is anxious to soak up some new knowledge and skills in a groundbreaking trades program at Okanagan College’s Kelowna campus. Sarah Brayshaw, a 26-year-old student, has enrolled in the all-female Metal Fabrication program, which is being offered through the Women in Trades...

Okanagan College hosts 2013 SkillsBC Regional competition

More than 110 high school students from Revelstoke to Osoyoos will be testing their trades and technology skills at the Annual SkillsBC Regional Competitions this Friday at Okanagan College, Kelowna campus. This marks the 17th year Okanagan College has held the event, which takes...

Les Belles-Soeurs are coming to Okanagan College

Sixteen women in a tenement, pasting one million stamps into books so they can be redeemed for prizes – what could possibly go wrong? That’s the premise for Michel Tremblay’s classic tragicomedy, Les Belles-Soeurs (“The Sisters-in-Law”) being produced by Okanagan College’s Red Dot...

Spotlight on Business event broadens career prospects

If you have a head for business, it’s time to consider getting your head into Okanagan College. On Thursday, March 14, Okanagan College is hosting Spotlight on Business, from 4:30 – 6 p.m. at the Vernon campus. This educational showcase will provide attendees with information on degree,...

The Plant Intelligence Project

Creative writing students Kate Ball and Hayden McIntosh discuss the Plant Intelligence Project with instructor Sonnet L’Abbé (right). UBC creative writing students link literature, art and science in collaborative study Call it sowing the seeds of a new idea. Budding writers in UBC's...

UBC hosts national student leadership conference

Canadian Conference for Student Leadership organizers (from l-r) Jacqueline Beaulieu, Robyn Giffen, Guillermo Angel , and Greg Mather are looking forward to hosting some 245 students from across Canada this weekend. Speakers include hockey’s Trevor Linden and War Child founder Samantha...

College and University call for participants in Okanagan math competition

Okanagan College Media Release Do the math and you’ll realize the deadline is looming for the Okanagan’s mathematically-inclined Grade 8 to 12 students (including those being homeschooled) to register for the Preliminary Round of the 2013 edition of the British Columbia Secondary School...

Spaghetti Bridge Inspires Rose Valley Teacher and Class

Opportunity to compete an incentive for students Every year for 12 years, a few Grade 6 students at Rose Valley Elementary tussle with history. They want to build a better spaghetti bridge than their predecessors in the Okanagan College Spaghetti Bridge competition. “They always want to beat...

Arts and Sciences Centre officially opens at UBC's Okanagan campus

From left, Deborah Buszard, UBC deputy vice-chancellor and principal of the Okanagan campus, along with Norm Letnick, Minister of Agriculture and MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country, Master of Science student Manpreet Bahniwal, and UBC President Stephen Toope celebrate the opening of the Arts and...

International Women’s Day Event celebrates Diversity

Okanagan College Media Release One of the biggest honours for women in the Central Okanagan will be presented Friday, March 8 when the latest recipient of the Gert Beadle Award is announced as part of an evening celebration of International Women’s Day. Organized by the Okanagan College...

UBC's Okanagan campus shares research endeavors with the world

UBC Assoc. Prof. of Economics John Janmaat is studying water supply and resource partnerships in the Okanagan to help address water resource challenges around the globe. Full week of activities highlights students, faculties and projects that matter Ever wonder what researchers at UBC’s...

Prolific poet and storyteller to read at UBC’s Okanagan campus

Nicole Brossard will give readings in French and English in Visiting Author series Nicole Brossard An iconic figure in Quebecois culture, internationally acclaimed writer Nicole Brossard will give readings in both of Canada’s official languages when she visits UBC’s Okanagan campus this...

Ecological artist Marlene Creates connects community, art, nature

UBC Artist in Residence invites Okanagan public to Woodhaven Nature Conservancy Ecological artist Marlene Creates Internationally renowned ecological artist and poet Marlene Creates will be in Kelowna throughout March to present a series of talks and workshops about the links between art making...

CATCH BC targets local residents who may have 'at risk' health issues

Students from the Faculty of Medicine and the School of Nursingat UBC’s Okanagan campus participate at the recent Diversity Health Fair UBC's Okanagan medical and nursing students focus on community health Students from the Faculty of Medicine and the School of Nursing at UBC’s Okanagan...

Leading national researcher joins the UBC Faculty of Medicine

Program to raise awareness of chronic disease already underway Dr. Charlotte Jones A physician well known for her community-based health campaigns and research is the newest associate professor of medicine at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Dr. Charlotte Jones, an endocrinologist and leading...

A fungal affair: UBC student presents award-winning research in India

Field of study examines complex relationships between plants and soils Jennifer Forsythe Jennifer Forsythe laughs when she has to explain, once again, how to pronounce her field of study. “I’m used to it,” she says with a smile. “My dad jokes because I’ve been studying mycorrhiza for...

New marquee lights the way to University Theatre

Installation of the new University Theatre sign at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Can’t-miss sign draws attention to increasingly active UBC performance venue A bright new installation at UBC’s University Theatre is a sign of the times for the burgeoning live-performance culture on campus, and...

UBC students participate in Model United Nations events

UBC’s Okanagan delegation to the Harvard National Model United Nations 2013 from left to right: Liam Fitzpatrick, Sutheeksan (Dixon) Sunthoram, Emma Houiellebecq, Lina Gomez, Alliance Babunga, Alexa Geddes, Sujitha Shivajothi, Josephine Schrott, Drayson Netzel, and Tim Krupa. Photo by Sara...

UBC student wins 15th annual Okanagan Short Story Contest

Okanagan Short Story contest third-place winner Jada Hignett, of Vernon, left, contest judge Erín Mouré, centre, and first-place winner Joe Dermo of Kelowna, right. Feather in his cap for UBC creative writing student Joe Dermo Stringing words together to create a powerful story is what Joe...

Science in Society Series draws high profile scientist to talk on role of DNA in disease transmission

Okanagan College Media Release One of B.C.’s top experts in DNA sequencing and its relationship with disease outbreaks will be at the Vernon campus of Okanagan College on Tuesday, Mar. 5 to present a lecture as part of the ongoing Science in Society speaker series. Dr. Jennifer Gardy, who...