Not on campus? No problem. There are a number of challenging local stair climbs at Bear Creek Park, Knox Mountain and Black Mountain Drive Trail. Just find some stairs and start climbing.
Join UBCO Recreation for its first-ever Virtual Run with Rec
Choose your distance -- 3, 5 or 10 km -- and choose your starting line -- whether its inside on a treadmill or outside in your neighbourhood. Choose how you want to complete this run -- in multiple parts or all at once. Share your achievements with your friends and tag UBCO Recreation on Instagram.
New to cycling, or interested in learning more? In need of a refresher?
Join UBC and HUB Cycling for a lunch and learn virtual workshop that will introduce you to cycling best practices and how to bike safely to work and beyond.
Dr. Sarah Brears appointed Regional Associate Dean, Interior
Dr. Brears was appointed as an interim Regional Associate Dean, Interior in May 2019. With her new appointment, effective June 1, she will continue to provide strategic leadership of the faculty’s medical education programs for the BC Interior.
UBC IT has evaluated the usage of Enhanced CWL, and is lowering the authentication requirements for most non-critical services from once per week to once per month.
June 3: Conversation Café looks at different types of feedback
Feedback: A Communication Tool
Human Resources is hosting timely and relevant Conversation Cafes on topics that matter to you. Grab a coffee and dive into conversation with your colleagues to leverage the wisdom in the (Zoom) room, giving you quick access to new approaches and helpful tips and tools.
This workshop offers support for faculty and staff at all levels to apply an intentional equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) lens to their decision making. Participants will have the chance to work collaboratively to apply a new tool -- Intentional EDI Decision-Making -- to examples of key decisions currently under consideration.
Learn to run with UBCO Recreation in its new 'virtual' learn to run program.
A member of the UBCO Heat Cross Country team will lead a four-week session that shows you how to safely run, how to stay injury free and looks at how you can maintain progress following the program.
Known for its vast national parks and the imposing allure of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania is home to some of the world’s most breathtaking landscapes.
While most travellers are lured to this East African nation for its stunning beauty, UBC Okanagan student Willa Holmwood chose to explore Tanzania through the lens of its writers and artists.
Physicians at Kelowna General Hospital, together with UBC emergency medicine residents and Southern Medical Program students have come together to develop a phone follow-up service for self-isolating patients.
Making a difference: UBC medical students support patients in self-isolation
In the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, patients diagnosed with mild-disease symptoms were instead directed to self-isolate at home for a minimum of ten days without being tested. As treatments and testing protocols continued to evolve, discharged patients weren’t necessarily getting the most up-to-date information on how to effectively self-isolate.
It was a knowledge gap that Dr. Tony Kwan, a KGH emergency physician and UBC clinical instructor, looked to fill with the support of Southern Medical Program student volunteers.
UBC Okanagan’s Rehan Sadiq, left, discusses drinking water assessment tools and benchmarking strategies with students Gyan K C Shrestha and Sarin Raj Pokhrel.
Connecting the Okanagan through a 'one water approach'
UBC researchers establish performance assessment guidelines for local water utilities
Researchers at UBC Okanagan’s School of Engineering are launching a community-focused research program as they seek to assess the performance of water utilities and municipalities across the Okanagan Valley.
Student Coordinators Alex Singeris and Rachel Baker.
Virtual Destination UBC
Every year, Student Recruitment and Advising hosts Destination UBC -- an event that allows admitted students to experience the UBC Okanagan campus first-hand.
This year, given the physical distancing policies to reduce the spread of COVID-19, things looked a bit different.
Chief Scientist at PRE Labs Mazeyar Parvinzadeh Gashti tests several different soap products on a protective face shield.
Collaboration helps frontline workers see clearly during long hours at work
Fogged-up protective face shields proving problematic
A few weeks ago, UBC School of Nursing Professor Sally Thorne tweeted that nurses, health care professionals and frontline workers were looking for an anti-fogging solution for glasses, goggles and visors for people who need to wear a tight-fitting mask.
UBC Okanagan alumnus produces medical face shields for Health Canada
Percept Systems is one of few companies in Western Canada licensed for medical supply manufacturing
UBC Okanagan alumnus Ephraim Nowak has mobilized his Kelowna company to produce more than 1,000 face shields per day in an effort to combat the COVID-19 outbreak.
School of Engineering researchers are looking at creating new policy and planning tools to address flooding in the Okanagan Valley.
UBCO and Okanagan water board team up to address flood mitigation ideas
Engineers create risk assessment and vulnerability tools
With many eyes on rising lake levels these days, UBC researchers from the Lifecycle Management Laboratory are partnering with the Okanagan Basin Water Board to develop new policy and planning tools to address flooding in the Okanagan Valley.
It was late afternoon on Friday, March 13 when instructors learned that the university would be transitioning to online classes for the remainder of the term, as part of UBC’s coordinated response to COVID-19. Faculty had until Monday to figure out how to move their classes, lectures, mid-terms, and final exams online.
