Championing Graduate Student Advocacy and Creating Safe Spaces for Graduate Students: Introducing our 2025 Graduate Dean’s Student Leadership Award Winners
Yazdan Gordanpour, Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies – Sustainability Theme student, and Sheela Mbogo, Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies – Global Studies Theme student, are improving graduate student life at UBC Okanagan.
Meet Sheela Mbogo
Meet Sheela Mbogo, student in the Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies – Global Studies Theme
Meet Yazdan Gordanpour
Meet Yazdan Gordanpour, student in the Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies – Sustainability Theme
Introducing the 2025 UBC Okanagan Postdoctoral Fellowship Winners: Dr. Sarvenaz Heirani Moghaddam and Dr. Seth McCarthy
Dr. Sarvenaz Heirani Moghaddam, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, explores gamification in stroke recovery and Dr. Seth McCarthy, Faculty of Health and Social Development, investigates how exercise can reduce inflammation in the body.
Meet Dr. Seth McCarthy
Dr. McCarthy, winner of the 2025 UBC Okanagan Postdoctoral Fellowship, focuses on how exercise can be used to reduce the levels of inflammation in our body
Meet Dr. Sarvenaz Heirani Moghaddam
Dr. Sarvenaz Heirani Moghaddam, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, brings her expertise in robotics and virtual reality to stroke rehabilitation research.
Family Research Team Extends the Boundaries of Knowledge
Lindsay DuPré, Vanier Scholar and PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies – Indigenous Knowledges Theme, demonstrates how intergenerational research teams can help protect and adapt Indigenous Knowledge
Researchers Captivate the Audience at UBC Okanagan’s Twelfth Annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
We had a wonderful Wednesday evening celebrating graduate student research at our twelfth annual Three Minute Thesis Competition! To start off the night, Dr. Jelena Komanchuk, winner of the Michael Smith Health Research BC and UBC Okanagan Postdoctoral Fellowships, shared her talk “Sleep health inequities for children in foster and kinship care.” Using the tool […]
Meet Nathan Adams
Developing an inclusive language media guide for sedentary behaviour and spinal cord injury.
Psychology Student First to Win “Canada Graduate Scholarship to Honour Nelson Mandela” at UBC Okanagan
Amané Halicki-Asakawa, Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology student, is the first student at UBC Okanagan to win the Canada Graduate Scholarship to Honour Nelson Mandela. Learn more about her graduate student journey.