Healthy Cities Partnership seeks input
UBC Okanagan’s Okanagan Sustainability Institute has partnered with the City of Kelowna to study resident attitudes towards growth in Kelowna.
UBC, Kelowna, and Interior Health sign Healthy City Partnership
The Healthy City Partnership will investigate a number of questions about the relation between built environment, natural environment, and the residents of the city of Kelowna. The collaboration will begin with a look at future housing and greenhouse gas emissions in Kelowna.
Visiting Scholar presents sustainability research
Kim Ceulemans, from the Catholic University of Leuven—the largest and oldest university in Belgium—is visiting The University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus to continue a two-year collaboration with Dr. Carol Scarff from the Faculty of Education.
UBC community partnerships aim to benefit local health projects
Do you wonder how to engage with UBC Okanagan to help your community health project be successful?
Visiting scholar investigates sustainability reporting in higher education
Kim Ceulemans visits The University of British Columbia to continue three-year partnership Kim Ceulemans, from the Catholic University of Leuven—the largest and oldest university in Belgium—is visiting The University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus to continue a two-year collaboration with Dr. Carol Scarff from the Faculty of Education. Scarff and Ceulemans’ partnership began when they […]
UBC researchers part of Peachland partnership for large development
Developer joins forces with engineering students, Okanagan Sustainability Institute.
The hills are alive with the Sounds of Peachland
UBC faculty, students team with artist for project and community workshop.
Stirring Minds Faculty of Education Speaker Series welcomes Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities, and Global Change
Dr. Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti will present Alter-Globalism in Higher Education in speaker series Title: Alter-Globalism in Higher Education: paradoxes of ethics, justice and internationalization When: March 14, 2014, 1-2 pm Where: EME 2202 Andreotti’s presentation will examine shifting perceptions of the public role of (higher) education, with particular emphasis on questions of ethics, justice […]
PhD Student leads teacher candidates in Tanzania
Bourne and her team sought to invest in a Tanzanian community by creating school books in Swahili and English for a Tanzanian classroom, but the investment —to the Canadian classroom—is just getting started. It is hard to imagine the petite woman with sun-kissed hair and trendy blue capris anywhere except in the Okanagan. The […]
UBC engineers assist Penticton with energy reduction goals
Researchers will look at everything from recycling to electrical consumption.