Ubc Okanagan
UBC Okanagan campus magazine grabs readers with satire
KELOWNA – Class Magazine is a new publication at UBC Okanagan with a focus on campus news and culture, but it’s the satire section grabbing all the attention online The magazine has been featuring the faux articles on its website to help promote the hard copy distributed on campus. The latest headline reads, “McGill University announces...
Where’d the wild things go? The rise and fall of UBCO as a party school
KELOWNA - As a 19-year-old in his second year of university, the Cascade street parties were surreal to me — they were a college movie come to life. On any weekend (the warm ones at least) you could walk out of a rez room and immediately be swept up in a swarm of woo-girls and fist-pumping...
Making a better helmet to help reduce brain injuries
KELOWNA – Researchers in Kelowna are part of an international team of researchers are working on applications for a new gel-like material that absorbs the shock from impacts. A pair of professors from Imperial College London were in Kelowna this past week working with UBC Okanagan’s new Survive and Thrive Applied Research or STAR facility....