Graduate Student Leaders Show Dedication Through Development, Advocacy, and Mentorship
Congratulations to Hammad Ahmad and Kirthana Ganesh for winning the UBC Okanagan Graduate Dean’s Student Leadership Award!
Meet Hammad Ahmad
Meet Hammad Ahmad: 2024 Winner of the Graduate Dean’s Student Leadership Award
Introducing UBCO’s First Thesis & Dissertation Award Winners
The College of Graduate Studies is excited to announce our new UBC Okanagan Thesis Award and UBC Okanagan Dissertation Award and the first winners of these awards!
Passion, Engagement, and Innovation at 2024 UBCO 3MT Competition
From art for reconciliation to the politics of language to pipe leak detection, UBC Okanagan graduate students shone at the 2024 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Finals!
Five Outstanding Doctoral Students Win Prestigious Scholarship
Killam Doctoral Scholarships are the most prestigious awards available to graduate students at UBC. The purpose of the scholarship is to support advanced education and research. Killam Doctoral Scholarships are awarded to students who are likely to advance learning or win distinction in a profession. And, for the first time, five UBC Okanagan students have won Killam Doctoral Scholarships!
This year’s winners are Emily Comeau, Alexander MacGillivray, Rubaiya Rumman, Jayme Stewart, and Kishoare Tamanna.
Rita Lam takes home top prize at the 2023 3MT Competition
Rita Lam’s research presentation on healthy building design and infectious disease control in built environments hit home with the audience at this year’s Three Minute Thesis final on April 6, 2023. A timely topic combined with impeccable delivery and audience engagement helped her secure the top spot at this year’s competition. Lam, a Master’s of […]
Meet the Finalists for the 2023 UBCO 3MT Final
Meet the 11 graduate students facing off in this year’s Three Minute Thesis Competition.
Felix Amoh-Siaw receives prestigious Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship
Felix Amoh-Siaw, PhD student in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies at UBC Okanagan, has been awarded one of Canada’s most prestigious doctoral awards—the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation’s Scholarship. This is the first time a UBC Okanagan student has won the award since 2009. Nearly 500 doctoral students from 22 countries vied for their spot as a Trudeau […]
Engineering student captures top prize at UBCO’s 3MT final
Go green or go home; that was the message that secured PhD student Hammad Ahmad the top spot at the ninth annual UBC Okanagan Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. For his presentation, Hammad spoke about the use of biocomposites as sustainable construction materials. Ahmad, a PhD student in Civil Engineering, captivated judges with his audience […]