UNBC researchers are collaborating with their colleagues at Thompson Rivers University and University of British Columbia - Okanagan on a variety of innovative COVID-19 related projects.

Global and International Studies Assistant Professor Dr. Nathan Andrews received a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship. He will partner with Professor Ernest Khalema at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa to study the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on post-graduate engagement and academic co-mentorship.

In his new book The Political Economy of Health and Healthcare: Unhealthy Distribution, Economics Professor Dr. Jalil Safaei grapples with the paradox that as global wealth increases, health inequities persist.

English Assistant Professor Dr. Troy Bordun's forthcoming paper examines philosophical ideas of luck in the context of the Marvel superhero Domino. He will also be teaching a class this semester on comic books and graphic novels.

Led by Environmental Science Professor Dr. Stephen Déry, the NSERC/Rio Tinto Industrial Research Chair on Climate Change and Water Security partnership aims to better understand how climate change and human activity are impacting water security in the Nechako Watershed.

In 2019, UNBC's research income increased by 42.5 per cent, the largest increase of any university in the undergraduate tier in the latest edition of Canada's Top 50 Research Universities. UNBC also saw its overall ranking increase and moved up places in two categories related to research intensity.

UNBC is the host institution for the Centre for Technology Adoption for Aging in the North, a new AGE-WELL National Innovation Hub. Through partnerships with technology developers, researchers, policy makers, health-care providers, community groups and older adults themselves, CTAAN tests, pilots, implements and promotes new and existing technology solutions to help older adults live independently.