University community mourns loss of distinguished Chancellor
The University of Northern British Columbia community is mourning following news that Joseph Gosnell, Sr., the University’s seventh Chancellor, died in the early morning hours of Aug. 18, 2020. Gosnell served as Chancellor from 2019 until his death.
Contaminants from Mount Polley tailings spill continue to affect Quesnel Lake
Metal-rich sediment is mixed into the water column each spring and fall
Watch out for COVID-19 disinformation
With so much information circulating online about Covid-19, Health Sciences Librarian Trina Fyfe advises everyone to take a closer look at what one reads by checking out the sources of the information and ensuring disinformation is not spread.
Vanier Scholar's research focuses on UN's Sustainable Development Goals and watersheds in two countries
Christiana Onabola, a UNBC Health Sciences PhD student, has earned a federally-funded Vanier Scholarship for her research that focuses on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how they are relevant to local populations and communities along the Nechako Watershed in British Columbia and Niger Delta in Nigeria.
UNBC researchers receive more than $330,000 in federal funding
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.
Exploring the role of women in colonial medicine
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.
Small towns, big futures
With the support of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant, Geography Professor Dr. Greg Halseth is embarking on the next phase of his research into rural and small-town Canada by focusing on the critical role of local government in responding to the forces re-shaping resource-dependent communities and economies.
New supports for post-secondary students this fall
Every student who applies for StudentAid BC will now be automatically assessed for the new B.C. Access Grant.
Active Minds creates online and at home camp experiences
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.