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Strong recruiting class for women’s basketball under Claire Meadows

Kelowna Now profiled Claire Meadows, the head coach of UBC Okanagan’s women’s basketball team. Meadows is also an assistant with the U19 Women’s National Team.

Few have done as much with as little fuss as Sandhill’s Howard Soon

Howard Soon, a winemaker and UBC alumnus, was profiled in a Vancouver Sun article. Soon is the longest active winemaker in the country who studied biochemistry at UBC.

Photos show Site C construction impact, utilities commission review looms

DeSmog Canada cited an analysis by the Program on Water Governance at UBC that found if completed, Site C would “operate at a 100 per cent surplus incurring an estimated […]

New B.C. government will face challenges managing expectations

The Vancouver Sun published an op-ed by Charles Ungerleider, a UBC professor emeritus of educational studies, about the provincial government’s need to manage expectations. He wrote “because of the precarious […]

Nursing professor discusses children’s sleep

Roundhouse Radio interviewed Wendy Hall, a UBC nursing professor, about her research on sleep. She discussed how a child’s sleep problems could lead to depression among parents.

Bike program builds autonomy for B.C.’s migrant farm workers

The Tyee reported on a volunteer-run program that donates bicycles and runs bike repair clinics for temporary farm workers in the Lower Mainland who hail from countries including Mexico and […]