Peer mentors needed to make a great first-year experience
Campus Life is seeking faculty and staff recommendations for student peer mentors in a few specific academic areas: Engineering, Creative and Critical Studies, and Arts.
Lighting accounts for 12 per cent of the energy used in business operations in Canada.
The Okanagan Sustainability Office encourages employees to practice a variety of energy and cost-saving behaviours to support operational sustainability on campus.
This year's annual report features nine stories that exemplify the achievements of UBC students, faculty, staff and alumni as they support the nine commitments of the university's strategic plan, Place and Promise.
The Centre for Teaching and Learning is holding its annual Teaching Expo from August 18 to September 4. The expo is a series of workshops to help faculty members fine-tune their teaching skills before the academic year gets started.
alumni UBC launches Okanagan Alumni City Ambassadors initiative
Okanagan campus alumni who find themselves in a new city can now connect with city ambassadors who are ready to extend a warm welcome, answer local questions and make you feel right at home.
There are city ambassadors in a number of Canada cities as well as the United States and the United Kingdom.
Improving intercultural communication skills and fluency
Are you looking for practical tools to help communicate with students from different cultures? Find out more about these tools at a Centre for Teaching and Learning workshop on August 20.
Microsoft Windows 10 availability and support at UBC Okanagan
There are several new technologies and enterprise processes that Microsoft has introduced in the newly launched Windows 10.
These require a considerable amount of work for IT, Media & Classroom Services to assess and deploy before the operating system will work correctly on campus.
Discussing Friday's Western Economic Diversification Canada funding announcement, from left, Minister of State Michelle Rempel, Kelowna-Lake Country MP Ron Cannan, and Prof. Roger Sugden, Dean of the Faculty of Management.
Global markets focus of UBC and BC wine industry collaboration
An innovative partnership between the University of British Columbia and BC's wine industry has received $630,000 from Western Economic Diversification Canada to help strengthen cooperation in the industry, enhance export readiness and develop global identity.
Research spanning the globe's grasslands supports controversial biodiversity hypothesis
A global-scale collaborative study published this week in the prestigious journal Science shows that plant biodiversity within the world's grasslands peaks at intermediate levels of productivity, lending support to a long-standing but controversial ecological hypothesis.
An elusive and climate-sensitive American pika (Ochotona princeps) calling. Image Credit: Philippe Henry, CC BY 4.0
New research advances genetic studies in wildlife conservation
‘Next-gen' DNA sequencing of non-invasively collected hair expands field of conservation genetics
New research shows that the entire genome -- the complete set of DNA information -- of hard-to-study species may now be available to scientists without the need to handle or even see the organism they are studying.
Biology undergraduate student Nishat Tasnim received awards for Best Oral Presentation and People's Choice Best Oral Presentation at Universitas 21.
Barber School student brings home two top prizes from Universitas 21
Biology undergraduate student Nishat Tasnim brought home not one, but two top prizes from this year's Universitas 21 Undergraduate Research Conference, held this July in Auckland, New Zealand.
Organizing committee member Ngumba Kamau at the CUCSC 2015 Registration.
Barber School students organize inaugural Canadian Undergraduate Computer Science Conference
The inaugural Canadian Undergraduate Computer Science Conference, organized by Barber School students this July, was a huge success, with over 40 students from across Canada in attendance.
Dixon Sookraj elected president of Canadian Association for Social Work Education
Congratulations to Dixon Sookraj, associate professor of social work at UBC Okanagan and new president of the Canadian Association for Social Work Education.
Sookraj was elected president in May 2014 and took over the position on June 4, 2015, after having served as an active member of CASWE for previous the 20 years.
Ed Hornibrook began his five-year term as Unit Head of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Physical Geography in the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences on August 1.
Prior to joining UBC, Hornibrook was a faculty member for 15 years at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.
Moving forward with bicycle patrols Campus Security is moving forward with a new safety initiative targeted at improving their navigation around campus while staying in touch with the campus community.
The community learning model A unique school in Vernon is helping Faculty of Education researchers to better understand community learning.
