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  • UBCO Global
    UBCV & UBCO
    27 May, 2022 | Okanagan Global Message | Faculty & Staff

    Statement on the anniversary of the announcement of 215 unmarked graves found in Kamloops

    A message from Santa J. Ono, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of British Columbia; Lesley Cormack, Principal and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of British Columbia Okanagan Our hearts are heavy as we mark the one-year anniversary of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announcing the discovery of the remains of 215 children in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.

  • Dr. Brian Dalton
    UBCO
    26 May, 2022 | Feature story | Faculty & Staff

    A rebalancing act

    UBC Okanagan research probing the mysteries of human balance will help us stand better and fall less as we age Somewhere between eight and 18 months, babies take their own small step for humankind—those first wobbly plods into a parent’s arms. This giant leap for their developing brains is still barely understood by science—a marvel of neurons and the nervous system that we usually take for granted throughout our lives. But the final frontier of health science might just be our understanding of what maintains our balance as we age.

  • UBC Okanagan campus
    UBCV & UBCO
    24 May, 2022 | Announcement | Faculty

    Tell us how you’re innovating teaching at UBC

    What inspires you to think and act differently as an educator? Do you offer an innovative teaching experience or environment? Have you introduced new ways of overcoming barriers in your classes?

  • Staff Awards of Excellence
    UBCO
    24 May, 2022 | Announcement | Faculty & Staff

    UBC Okanagan – Call for nominations for this year's Staff Awards of Excellence

    The Staff Awards of Excellence celebrate the contributions of individuals instrumental in helping UBC’s Okanagan campus achieve its strategic imperatives, and to contribute to the commitment to create an outstanding work environment. There are seven categories of awards. Up to five awards per year are offered in the following categories:

  • Anamaria Richardson
    UBCV
    24 May, 2022 | Research in focus | Faculty & Staff

    Research in focus: Anamaria Richardson

    As a community-based clinician and researcher in the Faculty of Medicine, Anamaria's work is focused on improving health equity and access. Find out how she accidentally landed in research.

  • InSight’s 2.2-meter-wide solar panels
    UBCV
    20 May, 2022 | Media release | Faculty & Staff

    Discover the lonely fate of a robot on Mars

    Covered in the red dust that sealed its fate, NASA's InSight lander is slowly shutting down, more than 250 million kilometres from home. With its solar panels now obscured by the planet’s debris, the four-year-old robot is running out of power. One by one, its instruments are being taken offline: its robotic arm moving into ‘retirement pose’, and its seismometer likely to be turned off sometime in June.

  • UBC Okanagan
    UBCO
    16 May, 2022 | Okanagan Global Message | Faculty & Staff

    2022 Aspire-2040 Learning Transformations Fund Awards

    A message from Rehan Sadiq, Provost and Vice-President, Academic pro tem, UBC OkanaganDear colleagues,The Aspire-2040 Learning Transformations (ALT-2040) Fund supports program development, curriculum transformations, student experience enhancement and educational resource development that accelerates the curricular vision in UBC’s strategic planning documents Outlook 2040 and UBC’s Strategic Plan, Shaping UBC’s Next Century.

  • Sports Day
    UBCV & UBCO
    16 May, 2022 | Announcement | Faculty & Staff

    See photos from the Staff & Faculty Sports Day

    Staff & Faculty Sports Day took place in-person in Vancouver and the Okanagan earlier this month.  More than 360 people took part in the festivities at UBC Vancouver, with over 200 participants at UBC Okanagan. The afternoon was filled with lots of energy, bright colours and cheer. See the photos! UBC Vancouver

  • Silvia Tomášková
    UBCO
    16 May, 2022 | Leadership one-on-one | Faculty & Staff

    Silvia Tomášková

    Silvia Tomášková is the inaugural Dean of the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UBC Okanagan. She began her five-year term on December 1, 2020. A native of a country no longer in existence – Czechoslovakia – Dr. Tomášková came to Canada as a political refugee in the 1980s. She found her new home in Canada, and in the world of academia as a feminist anthropologist and archaeologist, with field and historical research in Europe, Siberia, and South Africa. As a theoretical scholar, her professional interests also extend to history, social studies of science, and gender studies. Her research focuses on knowledge production, particularly about places and spaces in the deep past, as alternatives to modernity. Dr. Tomášková is also deeply committed to the representation of neglected voices. Outside of academia, Dr. Tomášková leads an active lifestyle, loves the great outdoors and views cooking as a personal science class.

  • Turtle
    UBCV
    13 May, 2022 | Media release | Faculty & Staff

    Meet the turtle that helped reduce plastic office waste

    As part of a UBC Psychology experiment, pictures of a turtle and other marine animals were placed above recycling bins to see if they could influence people to reduce their plastic waste in offices. The research indicates that visualizing marine consequences helped reduce plastic waste by 17%.

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