Featured Projects
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The 17th World Sanskrit Conference
As India rises in global prominence, there is now, more than ever, a need to engage seriously with its remarkable intellectual and cultural heritage as expressed in the classical language more
Student Learning
Success Story
The River Timothy Sidley Memorial Award Recipient Sarah Falconer
The River Timothy Sidley Memorial Award is given to a fourth or fifth year UBC Okanagan student applying at the Bamfield Marine Science Centre Fall Program. Zoology student Sarah Falconer received the award in 2015. Read more about the River Timothy Sidley Memorial Award: https://memorial.support.ubc.ca/river-sidley/ more
Student Learning
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Dr. Suzanne Hetzel Campbell Endowment for Nursing Student Leaders
Since 1919, UBC’s School of Nursing has prided itself on being an active, vibrant and dynamic member of our university community, our province and our country. UBC Nursing continues to more
Student Learning
Priority Project
Shape the World for the Better: the 2017 Alumni Appeal
Progress toward a better world is not guaranteed—it is the result of people coming together to create it. However, voices around the world that reject the values of knowledge, research, more
Community Engagement, Research Excellence, Student Learning
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Teaching at the heart of giving
Musicologist Elizabeth Lamberton (MA’78, PhD’88) fondly recalls her time at UBC. She credits her inspiring professors with helping her to discover her own lifelong passion: teaching. “I more
Research Excellence, Student Learning
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In the Fast Lane
Thanks to a student athlete award established by UBC Sauder alumnus Peter Antturi, Bachelor of Commerce student and UBC swimmer Maia Brundage excels in competition. When you’re competing at Maia’s level, there’s nothing easy about swimming. “My alarm goes off at 4:45 am three days a week,” says Maia, a member of the UBC Thunderbirds […] more
Student Learning
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Leading with Confidence
Karen Dunstan, G.J. Elliot Aboriginal Student Award recipient, makes an impact on her community As economic development manager for Lytton First Nation in British Columbia, Karen Dunstan wasn’t achieving the results she wanted in her role and was questioning if she had the capability to lead with impact. Decades earlier, a high-school instructor told her […] more
Student Learning
Priority Project
International Health Project
The Gulu Regional Referral Hospital (GRRH), located in a resource-limited, post-conflict area of Northern Uganda, has long faced a critical staffing shortage. Since 2013, UBC’s International Health Project has offered UBC internal medicine residents clinical electives on GRRH’s medical ward. Here, UBC residents undertake short-term medical rotations to support the hospital’s limited staff and learn […] more
Community Engagement, Research Excellence, Student Learning
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No more abracadabra
UBC launches its new Computational Thinking Program, available to all students. more
Student Learning
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Capri scholarship allows UBC keeper to keep up with training
There is plenty to be worried about when starting a new school and trying out for a new team. For Nicholas Reitsma, a 6-foot-3 freshman keeper on UBC Okanagan’s men’s soccer squad, receiving the Capri student scholarship has taken one major worry off his desk. Winning this year’s Capri Insurance Athletics Entrance Scholarship means he […] more
Student Learning
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Thorpe family doubles the dollars for UBC student scholarships this year
This year, to celebrate 10 years of giving, the Thorpe family decided to give money to twice as many UBC students as in previous years. It was 2006 when the Rick and Yasmin Thorpe & Friends Scholarship was established. Coming from the south Okanagan, the Thorpe’s goal is assist students living in that region—donating to […] more
Student Learning
