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Master’s student captures top prize at UBCO’s 3MT final
By Patty Wellborn on April 1, 2021
A compelling presentation of a topic all too familiar to some secured the top spot at yesterday’s eighth annual UBC Okanagan Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
Posted in Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
UBC Okanagan to offer Canada’s first bachelor’s degree of Indigenous language fluency
By Nathan Skolski on March 29, 2021
UBC’s Okanagan campus, located in the territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation, is set to become the first university in Canada to offer a bachelor’s degree in Indigenous language fluency.
Posted in Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Should government have the ability to make vaccination mandatory?
By Patty Wellborn on March 25, 2021
While many eagerly await their turn in the COVID-19 vaccination queue, UBC Okanagan student debaters are facing off in a provocative debate on public health and governmental power:
Be it resolved that government should have the ability to make vaccination mandatory.
Posted in Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Philosophy Politics and Economics
UBCO’s substance use clinic accepting new patients virtually
By Patty Wellborn on March 4, 2021
As we pass the one-year mark of living with the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s little doubt the virus has taken its toll on the mental health of many Canadians.
Posted in Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Philosopher shines light on dark world of misinformation
By Patty Wellborn on March 2, 2021
Misinformation isn’t hard to find.
Posted in Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Philosophy
UBCO economist says private security systems bar others from protection
By Patty Wellborn on March 1, 2021
New research has determined the prevalence of private security systems may be robbing the general public of the police services they need.
Posted in Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Is there a vaccine for the ‘infodemic’?
By Patty Wellborn on February 25, 2021
The misinformation age is upon us.
Posted in Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Philosophy Politics and Economics
Showing virtual love on Valentine’s Day
By Nathan Skolski on February 11, 2021
Unfortunately, love isn’t the only thing in the air this Valentine’s Day season.
Posted in Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
EPP researcher releases new book
By Lindsay Samantha Howe on February 2, 2021
Manfred Elfstrom, assistant professor of political science in the Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, has written a new book, titled Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness. In the book, which is published by Cambridge University Press, Elfstrom asks why the Chinese party-state is addressing a number of worker grievances while at the […]
Posted in Philosophy Politics and Economics, Political Science, Uncategorized
UBCO psychologists take part in Bell Let’s Talk Day mental health panel
By Patty Wellborn on January 26, 2021
UBC Okanagan’s Centre for Obesity and Well-being Research Excellence (CORE) and the department of psychology has partnered with the Mind of Mine Foundation to host a community-focused virtual mental health panel.
Posted in Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences