News Items tag as: UBC Okanagan 2016

Bus strike causing big parking problems for UBC Okanagan
November 15, 2016 - 4:30 PM

KELOWNA – UBC Okanagan students and staff are banding together to get through the transit strike.
UBC Okanagan professor on team trying to prove existence of parallel universes
October 20, 2016 - 6:30 PM

KELOWNA – If your understanding of string theory, black holes and parallel universes is lacking, an internationally-renowned physicist who is attempting to turn the physics world upside down is coming to UBC Okanagan at the end of the month.
UBC Okanagan still waiting for a court date of its own in ongoing Curtis Road trespass saga
September 20, 2016 - 8:00 PM

KELOWNA - It ‘aint over until it’s over. A decision by a judge earlier this month to deny all use by UBC Okanagan staff and students of a backdoor route into the campus could soon be overturned on appeal.
Judge denies all use of UBC Okanagan back door route
September 12, 2016 - 1:00 PM

KELOWNA - A long-simmering legal dispute over Curtis Road, a private road behind UBC Okanagan long used as a student short-cut, has seen a judge suspend all use by the university.
UBC Okanagan hit by rash of laptop computer thefts
September 09, 2016 - 5:00 PM

KELOWNA - Newly returning students have been hit with a rash of laptop thefts at UBC Okanagan and have been warned to guard their belongings.
Surgeons can now practice on synthetic human tissue developed at UBC Okanagan
September 01, 2016 - 8:00 PM

OKANAGAN - Synthetic heart valves, arteries and veins developed by a heart surgeon and a UBC Okanagan professor could allow surgeons to move away from practicing heart surgery on human and animal cadavers.
Lots of newbies as students descend on UBCO and Okanagan College
August 19, 2016 - 9:30 AM

KELOWNA - If you a see a young person walking around looking a bit lost in the next few weeks, give them a break — they might be one of over several thousand new students descending on Kelowna for the 2016-2017 school year.
UBC Okanagan engineers make keeping water safe easier for municipalities
August 11, 2016 - 6:30 PM

KELOWNA - An irony of modern water treatment is that it can backfire and create byproducts with the potential for reproductive and developmental effects on children.
Researchers at UBC Okanagan look at the DNA of the world's top wines
August 05, 2016 - 6:30 PM

OKANAGAN - Examining the DNA of the world’s top wines while stopping them from spoiling? How could that be a bad thing?
UBCO chemist using trees to recycle chemicals from contaminated soil in Salmon Arm
August 04, 2016 - 4:30 PM

KELOWNA – A UBC Okanagan professor is working with a B.C. company to turn soil contaminants into household products.
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