Updates, news and stories

Have your say in UBC Okanagan’s Transportation Plan

What’s happening?Provide feedback on a proposed site amendment to the UBC Okanagan Transportation Plan to support future campus growth, community wellbeing, and climate action. Your input will help shape strategies that will make it more convenient, affordable and sustainable to get to, from and around campus.How you can participate

COVID-19: Update on Public Health Orders

A message from Peter Smailes, Vice-President, Finance & Operations; Rae Ann Aldridge, Executive Director, Safety & Risk Services

Online supports for COVID-19 stress are there—but Canadians aren’t accessing them

Building resilience around the Museum of Anthropology’s irreplaceable collection

Space to innovate

Apply for a Climate Education Grant

  On December 5, 2019, the President and Board of Governors declared a climate emergency, driven by student leadership at UBC. Supported by $50,000 in one-time Climate Action funding, the Climate Education Grant program aims to quickly improve the depth and delivery of climate change content in existing courses.  

30-second bio: Amber Shilling

Amber Shilling supports Indigenous research across UBC through relationships, facilitation, and education. She admires humility in others, as a critical part of the learning process to make mistakes, correct actions, and change things for the better.

An update on UBC Okanagan’s response to COVID-19

A message from Shelley Kayfish, Director, Campus Operations and Risk Management, Co-chair, UBC Okanagan Resumption Planning and Coordination Committee; Michael Burgess, Associate Provost, Strategy, UBC Okanagan, Co-chair, UBC Okanagan Resumption Planning and Coordination Committee.

Your invitation to the Chancellor’s installation

A message from Santa J. Ono, President and Vice-Chancellor

Attend UBC’s virtual Remembrance Day ceremony

UBC is hosting a virtual ceremony for Remembrance Day Since the opening of the War Memorial Gym in 1951, UBC has held a ceremony commemorating November 11. 2020 marks the 69th year that UBC has hosted a Remembrance Day ceremony. This year, due to COVID-19, the Remembrance Day ceremony will be a virtual event, featuring a live broadcast from War Memorial Gym, with short readings, remarks from special guests and musical performances by the UBC’s School of Music.

Faculty Town Hall

A message from Ananya Mukherjee Reed, Provost and Vice-President Academic, UBC Okanagan       You are invited to join Ananya Mukherjee Reed for a town hall that will explore how our students are experiencing the online environment.