How wine making fits into Earth Day

UBCO professor spearheads global effort to translate, analyze rare 13th century text

One of the world’s most unique and important texts—the General e grand estoria will soon be translated, analyzed and made widely available, thanks to a global endeavour led by a UBC Okanagan researcher.Dr. Francisco Peña, Professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, is leading a team of international scholars in the collaborative effort to translate and digitally preserve the General estoria (GE)—the largest universal history written in Medieval Europe. 

What credit card habits reveal about Canadian households

Age, education and even regional differences influence whether people pay off their balances or fall behind, new research reveals.Drs. Khan Jahirul Islam and Julien Picault, with the UBC Okanagan Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, analyzed five waves of national data from Statistics Canada’s Survey of Financial Security, from 1999 to 2019.

How kids can keep their maths skills sharp this summer

Wildfires could be harming our oceans and disrupting their carbon storage

"As wildfire frequency and intensity continue to rise in B.C., we need to better understand the cascading effects of fire across systems, and to integrate this knowledge into land, water, and climate resilience planning."