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Has UBC Okanagan failed valley residents?

The Kelowna Capital News reported on work by Peter Wylie, an economics professor at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Wylie examines the 2005 establishment of UBC’s Okanagan campus to its current state […]

A new way to predict forest wildfires developed

The Canadian Press highlighted research from UBC that predicts when and where fires caused by humans are most likely to occur in the spring. “We found that conditions were just […]

Girls explore careers in engineering at UBCO

The Kelowna Daily Courier featured an event at UBC’s Okanagan campus that aimed to introduce engineering to middle and high school girls. Similar stories appeared on Castanet and in the […]

Inside the hidden dangers of the Canadian workplace

The Globe and Mail cited a UBC study in an article about dangers in the Canadian workplace. The 2015 UBC study co-authored by Mieke Koehoorn found that workers’ compensation data did not […]

Chief Justice McLachlin on sex assault cases

Isabel Grant, a professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC, was quoted in a Globe and Mail article after Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin said sexual assault […]

Hot flashes, sleepless nights and what women can do about it

The Globe and Mail interviewed Jerilynn Prior, an endocrinologist at UBC’s Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research, about sleep deprivation among women over age 40. Prior said night sweats may improve […]