History Associate Professor Dr. Jacqueline Holler received Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant to examine how women’s healing networks in New Spain in the 16th to 18th centuries contributed to the sharing of medical knowledge and materials among people of Indigenous, Spanish, and African descent, and whether in turn that knowledge found its way into learned medicine.

History Associate Professor Dr. Jacqueline Holler and Geography Professor Dr. Greg Halseth received Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grants to continue their research programs. Holler is exploring the role women played in the practice of medicine during the colonial period. Halseth is studying the importance of local government to the economic sustainability of small towns and rural communities.

How do you create a meaningful summer camp experience in the middle of a global pandemic? With public health considerations ruling out the possibility of in-person camps this summer, the UNBC Active Minds team got creative and created three different activity streams to keep children engaged, entertained and educated.

Every student who applies for StudentAid BC will now be automatically assessed for the new B.C. Access Grant.

Interior university research coalition funds research to improve the lives of those living outside large urban centres

Aaron Ekman, the founding founding president of the North Central Labour Council, is the new Chair of UNBC's Board of Governors.

Six faculty members received grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council to support their research on topics that are of interest to northern British Columbia and advance the scientific knowledge in their chosen fields of study.

The NSERC/Rio Tinto Industrial Research Chair on Climate Change and Water Security partnership is one year old. Led by Environmental Science Professor Dr. Stephen Déry, the project aims to better understand how climate change and human activity are impacting water security in the watershed, which stretches from the Coast mountains to the Nechako River’s mouth in Prince George where it flows into the Fraser River.

Dr. Nadezhda (Nadia) Mamontova received a prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue her research into Glafira Vasilevich's mapmaking project with the Evenki people in Siberia. Working with UNBC Geography Professor Dr. Gail Fondahl, Mamontova is exploring the methods Vasilevich used to collect the maps, examining her motivations and tracing the legacy of the place names she used.