UBC Okanagan researcher honoured with prestigious national appointment
UBC Okanagan researcher Dr. Adam Ford has joined some prestigious company after being elected as a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Dr. Ford, a professor in the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was one of 12 UBC faculty elected to the Royal Society—three elected as […]
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UBC Okanagan researchers awarded CFI funding to power the future of health and technology
Congratulations to Associate Professor Dr. Perry Howard and Associate Professor Dr. Barrett Ens—both in the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science—who were awarded funding through the John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Dr. Howard and his team in the Department of Biology are establishing a new lab to […]
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UBC Okanagan lands new Canada Research Chair, additional federal research funding
Dr. Jessica Chan remembers what it felt like to move between two worlds. Growing up, she navigated two languages and two cultures–learning English at school while keeping her home language and heritage alive with her family. Her parents, both immigrants to Canada, held education close. It was, she says, a way of discovering the […]
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Better batteries
As we continue to rely on batteries to power our world, there is an increasing need to improve their performance and sustainability. UBCO is leading the charge toward designing, developing and prototyping powerful, sustainable and efficient battery technologies to help run the world of tomorrow. Batteries are an integral part of society’s energy storage, and […]
Restoring language. Revitalizing culture.
There are 34 unique Indigenous languages currently in use in British Columbia. Each of them is critically endangered. The disappearance of any single one represents not just the loss of the language itself but also the loss of a living expression of intellect, a specific cultural understanding and an important link to the past. Dr. […]
Profile: Dr. Isaac Li
“We are developing techniques that no one else is developing right now.” Name Isaac Li Role Associate Professor Program Chemistry Faculty Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science At UBCO since 2016 How would you describe your work? Despite decades of studying chemical interactions between cells, scientists still know very little about how cells interact physically. The problem […]
Province invests nearly $1.7M in UBCO research
Latest BCKDF funding awarded for eight campus projects UBC Okanagan researchers have received $1.68 million in infrastructure funding support from the Government of BC. A total of eight projects were funded, exploring everything from the use of robots in the construction of affordable housing to patient-centred research into the development of treatments for deadly brain […]
