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 Yazdan Gordanpour
Meet Yazdan Gordanpour, student in the Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies – Sustainability Theme
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.
How do sleep, infant feeding, and the gut microbiome impact infant health?
Mahtab Matin, Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing student, discusses her interdisciplinary research, her pathway to graduate school, and her passion for community-engaged research.
Announcing the Inaugural Exeter – UBCO Sustainability & Resilience Partnership: Visiting Research Student Fellowship
UBC Okanagan is pleased to announce the launch of the inaugural competition for the Exeter – UBCO Sustainability & Resilience Partnership – Visiting Research Student Fellowship.
Rethinking Trauma, Memory, and Affect
Anika Saba from the Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies – Power, Conflict, and Ideas Theme discusses her research, her passion for the art of storytelling, and what brought her to UBCO
UBCO’s Killam Doctoral Scholarship Winners are Leading the Way with Innovative Research
From exploring music and machine learning to investigating new methods for diagnosing mild traumatic brain injury, the 2024/2025 UBCO Killam winners are conducting ground breaking research.