Creating a home away from home for Indigenous students on UBC’s Vancouver campus
For first-year Arts student Sabrina Moshenko, moving to UBC’s vast Vancouver campus from a small community of less than 3,000 people in rural Saskatchewan was a little overwhelming. “For a first-year student, homesickness is a universal feeling,” says Ms. Moshenko. “And finding friends can be intimidating.” The First Nations House of Learning heard similar comments […]
Clothing bins made safer
It was July 2018 when Dr. Ray Taheri, senior instructor of engineering at UBC Okanagan, heard the news: a woman had died after becoming trapped in a clothing donation bin in Vancouver—the fourth such death to have occurred in Canada since 2015. It was time to do something, he resolved. Just as he had done […]
Orientation now available on-demand for new students at UBC’s Okanagan campus
More resources, more convenience, and more power to tailor their own transition to university: new-to-UBCO students are getting a whole lot more from their orientation experience, thanks to an innovative new online program at UBC’s Okanagan campus. In early 2018, a project team in the Office of the Associate Vice-President, Students set out to streamline […]
Kelowna emergency medicine program graduates first residents
Earlier this year, the Kelowna Emergency Medicine Residency Program proudly graduated its first two residents. The unique program, which was launched in 2014, is the only Royal College training program for emergency medicine residents in the B.C. Interior. According to Dr. Kevin Clark, program director and a clinical associate professor in UBC’s Faculty of Medicine, […]