The royal visit to UBC’s Okanagan campus was featured in various media outlets including the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, ITV, The Telegraph, USA Today, Vanity Fair, Huffington Post, People, AOL, CBC, Globe and Mail, ET Canada, CTV, Global, Montreal Gazette, The Province, News 1130, CKNW, Castanet and Kelowna Now.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took in an exhibition match with the nationally ranked UBC Okanagan Heat women’s volleyball team and unveiled a plaque to mark the university’s 10th anniversary. They were welcomed by UBC chancellor Lindsay Gordon, Deborah Buszard, principal of the Okanagan campus, and UBC president Santa Ono.
In an interview (Ottawa Citizen), Ono commented that the royal visit was “fitting” in view of the recent nomination of former UBC president Stephen Toope to head Cambridge University. Ono added that the UBCO campus, which has about 10,000 students, has a scale “conducive to a high quality and personalized education.”
