by Okanagan Life | Apr 12, 2016 | Community, Culture
The Penmar Community Arts Society received an exciting boost of support from a donor with a $35,000 matching contribution to the current Open-The-Doors fundraising campaign. Identified as Pig Butler, the donor party is keen to see this project succeed. The Society...
by Okanagan Life | Apr 10, 2016 | Community
Computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and statisticians at UBC’s Okanagan campus are teaming up to create a tool to make highway construction less complicated and cheaper. “Road construction is an expensive endeavour and can cost as much as $20 million per...
by Okanagan Life | Apr 10, 2016 | Community
Summer holidays are right around the corner, do you have a plan to keep your kids off the couch and active? The average child spends between 7 and 9 hours a day being sedentary and 86 per cent of kids are not getting enough exercise. Check out these quick tips to keep...
by Okanagan Life | Apr 8, 2016 | Community
Retired from professional soccer at the age of 33, Kelowna’s Rob Friend shared a passionate message for the audience at Friday morning’s 11th annual Valley First/UBC Okanagan Athletics Breakfast – he can never kick a soccer ball again. “I had to step away from the...
by Okanagan Life | Mar 22, 2016 | Community
As of this week, you can get a sneak peek at over thirty amazing works of art that will be available for purchase at the upcoming Kelowna Art Gallery’s Appetite for Art Fundraiser on April 9. An online gallery of the works can be seen on the fundraiser event page on...
by Okanagan Life | Mar 21, 2016 | Community
Engineering professor Mina Hoorfar has been named UBC Okanagan’s Researcher of the Year. The mark of a good professor is one who is up to their elbows in research projects, has a strong group of post-grad students working with them, resonates with students, and...
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