Week of Caring Oct. 10 to 13 opens United Way campaign
The 2017 UBC Okanagan United Way campaign kicks off with a Week of Caring October 10 to 13.
The week's events include a BBQ in the courtyard on October 10 - sign up a team for the Flip ‘n Fun Race - an all-week Library Book Sale, and the United Way PitStop and the second-annual Office Triathlon games from 10 to 11 a.m. on October 13.
With enthusiastic support from our students and vital faculty and staff participation and payroll pledges, this year's goal of $40,000 will be reached.
TURN INTENTION INTO ACTION WITH FITNESS CLASSES AT THE HANGAR FITNESS CENTRE
Get a Faculty and staff Group Fitness pass for just $160 and enjoy unlimited access to group fitness classes every week until December. Drop-in classes are also available for $7 per class.
Lunch hour classes offered five days a week, with morning and evening classes also available.
Celebrate our faculty and staff donor community Oct. 4
The Faculty and Staff Society -- employees who are members of UBC's valued donor community -- are invited for a coffee break with Professor Santa J. Ono.
THE UBC LIBRARY HAS TEAMED UP WITH THE OKANAGAN REGIONAL LIBRARY TO BETTER OUR COMMUNITIES
The first step was creating the UBC Innovation Library so students, faculty and staff could work in downtown Kelowna. Now the UBC Library is looking at how the Okanagan Regional Library can support the Okanagan campus.
Reminder: Get your Staff Pension Plan questions answered on Oct. 5
THINKING ABOUT RETIREMENT? HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR PENSION BENEFITS?
An Understanding Your Staff Pension Plan session is organized for October 20. It will be led by Pension Administrator Margaret Leathley. One-on-one retirement info sessions are also available upon request.
Nathan Pelletier, Endowed Chair in Bio-economy Sustainability Management and the NSERC/Egg Farmers of Canada Industrial Research Chair in Sustainability at UBC Okanagan.
Modelling the impact of green eggs and hens
BARBER SCHOOL AND FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT RESEARCHER ASSESSES THE ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT OF CANADIAN EGG PRODUCTS
The whole food movement may be right; consumption of vegan and organic food can be the best choice for reducing environmental impacts, at least if you’re a chicken.
From left: FCCS award winners Shona Harrison, Myron Campbell, Denise Kenney, Michael Treschow
FCCS announces 2017 faculty awards
Each year the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies recognizes deserving faculty members for awards in teaching excellence and innovation, community engagement and service.
This year's FCCS award recipients are Shona Harrison, Denise Kenney, Michael Treschow and Myron Campbell.
Assistant Professor of Engineering Keekyoung Kim has great hopes for the bio-ink he is researching in his lab.
Better, cheaper bio-ink may be used to create artificial organs
UBC investigates gelatin-based hydrogel for regenerative medicine
A new bio-ink that may support a more efficient and inexpensive fabrication of human tissues and organs has been created by researchers in the School of Engineering.
Rhiannon Wallace has developed a way to protect apples from rotting.
Barber School research discovers a chemical-free way to keep apples fresher longer
A common soil bacterium may be the answer to reduce fruit losses
An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but the mold on it could make you sick.
Rhiannon Wallace, a PhD candidate in the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, has developed a way to stop, or at least control, blue mold—a pathogen that can rot an apple to its core.
New Transit Exchange UBC Okanagan's new Transit Exchange was officially opened on September 15. The project was funded by the Governments of Canada and BC, and the land was donated by UBC.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor & Principal's Town Hall Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal Deborah Buszard gives her annual Town Hall, which is part of the annual end-of-summer welcome back events for staff and faculty and also features the annual Staff Awards of Excellence
