OKANAGAN STORIES

Learn how students, faculty, alumni and partners are turning vision, cooperation and courage into meaningful results.

Focused on finding tomorrow’s solutions.

 

• Printing Parts

  New discoveries in tissue engineering present 3-D-printed options for skin, organs, joints, ligaments and improved successful tissue transplants.

• Maximizing Potential

  Student entrepreneur partners with prof to develop first wireless oxygen-sensing device for endurance athletes.

• Media Matters

  The ethos of integration drives creativity, critical thinking and digital technology in the age of new media.

• Just Breathe

  UBC Okanagan engineers invent an inexpensive THC Breath-Analyzer as Canada prepares to legalize recreational marijuana use.

• Closing the Distance

  Surgeons save time, expenses and travel risk for patients by practising telemedicine in remote communities.

• O Cannabis

  As attitudes around cannabis shift and Canada prepares for legalization, see how research at UBCO is accelerating.

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Opening doors for those who believe we’re stronger together.

• Making Moves

  Volunteer varsity athletes help power Move In Day, an annual tradition that sees waves of new students moving into campus residences.

• Urban Harvest

  A community catalyst brings time-honoured food systems full circle, following her passion for healthy and sustainable societies.

• Indigenous Voices

  Profs and students work to save endangered languages, interpret oral histories and empower communities.

• Hive of Activity

  UBC eco-art initiatives engage communities to transform and preserve natural environments.

• Under Pressure

  Live Case Challenge inspires Management students to innovate and think on their feet to solve complex problems.

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Cultivating new ways of working together.

• Mission Possible

  A diverse research team explores ways to help aerial firefighters stay safe on the job.

• Aging Well

  Research collaborations are ripe for the picking in the Okanagan's emerging wine industry.

• Being Human

  Through the Humanities, explore impassioned learning that extends deep into literature, art, music, history and philosophy.

• Diamond in the Rough

  Industry partnership helps find new industrial applications and manufacturing possibilities for carbon.

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Building strength and confidence to unleash your potential.

• Unleashed Potential

  Canine therapy program explores how therapy dogs reduce stress and increase well-being for students and others.

• Game Changers

  New research about physical activity is helping to improve the lives of athletes and people with spinal cord injury.

• You Belong Here

  Aboriginal Access Studies meets students where they're at to reduce barriers to university education.

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Opening a world of opportunity from here.

• Into Africa

  Passionate nursing students examine health inequities in Ghana and Zambia through life-changing global health program.

• One Water

  UBCO's School of Engineering is uncovering new ways to manage finite water resources, from the local to the international stage.

• Brave New Worlds

  Curiosity about Earth environments and global research expeditions lands a UBC geoscientist in Martian territory.

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