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Energy efficiency program puts $700K back in UBCO hands
KELOWNA - An energy efficiency program at UBC Okanagan resulted in $700,000 in rebates since it was first implemented in 2005. Upgrades began in the gymnasium, where energy-efficient lighting was installed. From there, the University has worked alongside FortisBC during large campus expansion projects to ensure they meet the new standards while most older campus...
Universities taking pro-active approach to Ebola despite low transmission risk
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – The risk of Ebola in the interior of British Columbia is a low one, but that hasn’t stopped the international departments at Thompson Rivers University and the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus from taking direction or developing a plan for international student travel. “The key part of what we’re doing is really...
Development director leaves city job to take over campus position
PENTICTON - The city will lose one of its greatest assets when development planner Anthony Haddad heads north to work on the expansion of the UBC Okanagan campus. Haddad leaves for his new position as the director of campus planning and development at UBC Okanagan in Kelowna, in a few weeks time. Haddad has been...
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...
Taking the hit before taking the shot: What your hockey helmet isn’t protecting you from
THOMPSON/OKANAGAN - It’s easily the most important piece of your hockey gear; you’re not even allowed on the ice without it even though the helmet you have now isn’t doing much to prevent concussions. But there could be significant changes in the works to adapt it. Paul van Donkelaar is the director of UBC-O’s school...
UBCO student union removes The Phoenix from campus
KELOWNA – The Phoenix, UBCO’s 25 year-old campus newspaper, is being removed from campus. The move is part of the UBCO student union's (UBCSUO) re-allocation of space in the UNC, which will see Resource Centers merged and new businesses added. “It just comes down to the utilization of space,” UBCSUO President Rocky Kim said, “we have...