Congratulations to Adam ™ Ford for receiving #UBCO ’s prestigious Researcher of the Year award in the Natural Sciences and Engineering category.

Learn more: news.ok.ubc.ca/2024/04/16/exc…

It was an honour and privilege to host #Nobel Prize Winner Morten Meldal and International Businesswoman Phaedria St Hilaire in #Kelowna for our Distinguished Speaker Series earlier this month. Thank you both, and thanks to our community for your continued support of the series. #ubco

Join us in #Kelowna for the upcoming #Wildfire Coexistence in BC: Solutions Symposium, happening June 3-5, 2024. From innovative strategies to community resilience, we’re coming together to tackle the wildfire challenge head-on. UBC Forestry
More info: wildfire-symposium.forestry.ubc.ca

Should cities treat climate change as an opportunity to harness or a crisis to manage?  

Join us for the next edition of UBC Okanagan Debates on Wednesday, May 15.

Get your tickets today at ok.ubc.ca/debates

A big thank-you to our sponsors, UBC’s Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC), Kelowna Software, Provision Data and WTFast for sponsoring our Computer Science Capstone Symposium on April 11. All are welcome to attend! #ubco

It's Giving Day at UBC 🎉Let's come together to support students and change lives! Donate now and amplify your impact with challenges: givingday.ubc.ca.

Two nights, two inspiring events! Join FOS UBCO on April 2 and 3 for the next instalment of the Distinguished Speaker Series held at the Kelowna Community Theatre.

FOS UBCO The first evening will feature Nobel Prize winner Dr. Morten Meldal to discuss how modern chemistry is transforming the way we treat disease.

Tickets available now: bit.ly/4coF5QI

FOS UBCO For the second evening, International Business Leader and Angel Investor Dr. Phaedria Marie St. Hilaire will talk about harnessing the potential of diversity and gender equality in business.

Tickets available now: bit.ly/4coF5QI

Two nights, two inspiring events. On April 2&3, the Distinguished Speaker Series returns to downtown #Kelowna with Nobel Prize winner Dr. Morten Meldal & Business Leader Dr. Phaedria Marie St. Hilaire. More info: science.ok.ubc.ca/about/events/d…

#WiRELAb 's Landon Birch meets with students at Science Week in Tsay Keh Dene Nation to talk about his MSc work on habitat restoration for Stone's sheep in northern British Columbia.

Thanks to project sponsors Wild Sheep Society of BC WildSheep Foundation B.C. Wildlife Federation NSERC / CRSNG and many others.

Come out and cheer on graduate students from the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science as they compete in their #3MT Faculty heat on February 26, 2024 at 2pm in SCI 333. Learn more about the Three Minute Thesis here: gradstudies.ok.ubc.ca/3mt/

Researchers from FOS UBCO biology are studying how the mucus in our digestive system could make monitoring gut health easier and less painful.

via Lori castanet.net/news/Campus-Li…

Can planting wildflower patches near crop fields benefit both the bees and crop production? Faculty of Science researchers Drs. Rebecca Tyson and Bruno Carturan aim to find out. tinyurl.com/3mtze685

Researchers Dr. Adam Ford and Dr. Clayton Lamb were part of an international team investigating how a species of ant has changed the predatory habits of Kenya's lions. Learn more: tinyurl.com/2w55jxp2

Faculty of Science researcher Dr. Adam Ford is on a mission to build a more sustainable way of life in the Okanagan: news.ok.ubc.ca/2024/01/15/bal…

Curious about the opportunities and challenges presented by transitions in energy? Join us to explore the question of storage at a panel discussion featuring Faculty of Science researcher Robert Godin.
Register for the Zoom link: tinyurl.com/yc6dpewf

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lael Parrott, a Professor in Sustainability, has been appointed Dean pro tem of the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science. Congratulations, Lael!

Michael Pidwirny, an associate professor of Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences at UBCO, was recently featured in a Global News story about the impact of climate change on BC's ski resorts. Read more: globalnews.ca/news/10206527/…