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Meet the undergraduate students mapping medicine production in plants. 🪴🌱Regan Nguyen and Yurika Oda are working in Dr. ...
10/16/2026

Meet the undergraduate students mapping medicine production in plants. 🪴🌱

Regan Nguyen and Yurika Oda are working in Dr. Thu-Thuy Dang’s biochemistry lab, studying how plants manufacture highly complex, high-value chemicals that can be used in pharmaceuticals like painkillers and cancer treatments.

Their work is part of a broader effort to develop sustainable, affordable alternatives to production methods that currently rely on destroying large quantities of specific trees.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4zDACEx

10/14/2026

UBC ranks 1st for 'research impact’, 2nd for ‘reputation’ and 3rd overall in Maclean’s 2027 University Rankings—a testament to UBC’s role as a leading research powerhouse, and to how UBC’s innovations and discoveries are advancing knowledge and improving lives.

See the full rankings here: https://bit.ly/3TYgJsE

UBC Okanagan

10/14/2026

Two elections. Two opportunities to make your voice heard.

With municipal and provincial elections underway, we encourage every eligible member of our university community to take the time to vote. Whether it’s the issues closest to your neighbourhood or the future direction of our province, your voice matters.

Municipal Election: General Voting Day is Saturday, October 17
Provincial Election: Final Voting Day is Saturday, October 24

More information for the UBC community on different ways to vote can be found via Elections BC, and here: https://bit.ly/4rXh2k0

Make a plan, cast your ballot and take part in our democracy. Every vote counts!

For Dr. Lesley Lutes and her students, listening is where change begins.At UBC Okanagan’s CORE lab, clinical psychology ...
10/10/2026

For Dr. Lesley Lutes and her students, listening is where change begins.

At UBC Okanagan’s CORE lab, clinical psychology graduate students are working with patients and health-care providers to improve access to timely, effective and equitable mental-health care.

This World Mental Health Day, discover how Dr. Lutes and the next generation of psychologists are turning lived experience into meaningful change.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4yeX7yx

Serving our community, one shift at a time. 💙💛Members of our UBC Okanagan Heat teams have been volunteering at the Centr...
10/09/2026

Serving our community, one shift at a time. 💙💛

Members of our UBC Okanagan Heat teams have been volunteering at the Central Okanagan Community Food Bank, continuing a tradition of giving back beyond the court and field.

Thank you to our student-athletes for showing up for our community!

Dr. Deanna Gibson spent nearly a decade asking why probiotics weren't working for people with inflammatory bowel disease...
10/02/2026

Dr. Deanna Gibson spent nearly a decade asking why probiotics weren't working for people with inflammatory bowel disease. The answer became Melius MicroBiomics, a Kelowna biotech company approaching its first human clinical trial.

Learn more about how the company is helping highly trained scientists build biotech careers in the Okanagan: https://bit.ly/4AzLIvk

UBC up one rank to 44th in Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings.THE has ranked the top 2,297 of the 22...
09/30/2026

UBC up one rank to 44th in Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings.

THE has ranked the top 2,297 of the 22,000+ universities worldwide and UBC ranks 44th overall and 29th among public universities. The rankings are based on research excellence, teaching, and international outlook - reinforcing UBC’s standing as one of the world's leading research universities.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3V9gknz

Ten years of sn̓ilíʔtn: honouring Syilx knowledge and activating public art.Syilx artist Les Louis returned to campus du...
09/29/2026

Ten years of sn̓ilíʔtn: honouring Syilx knowledge and activating public art.

Syilx artist Les Louis returned to campus during Homecoming to deliver an artist talk about the seven Story Poles that have stood in UBC Okanagan’s central courtyard since 2016. Read more: https://bit.ly/3VWJHJQ

The first graduates of UBC Okanagan’s St’át’imc fluency degree are carrying their language forward. St’át’imcets is a No...
09/28/2026

The first graduates of UBC Okanagan’s St’át’imc fluency degree are carrying their language forward.

St’át’imcets is a Northern Interior Salish language spoken in the territories around the middle Fraser and Lillooet rivers.

The Bachelor of St’át’imc Language Fluency is the third of UBC Okanagan’s four Interior Salish language degrees, following programs in Nsyilxcn and NłeɁkepmx, with a Secwépemc cohort welcomed in 2025.

Read more about the inaugural cohort: https://bit.ly/4jupaWR

It's looking like fall on campus!
09/24/2026

It's looking like fall on campus!

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