A message from UNBC Interim President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Geoff Payne

UNBC alumni Jennifer Nguyen and Dr. Geoff Johnson share their stories on the health-care front lines during COVID-19 in a Q&A with This Is UNBC.

The pedagogy of wonder

Selena Paskalidis (BComm, 2009) helps content creators distribute with her company dotStudioPro

Our students, faculty, alumni and staff are making headlines for their work on campus.

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.

Education Adjunct Professor Dr. Alexander Lautensach and co-editor Dr. Sabina Lautensach take a transdisciplinary approach in the latest edition of their open-access textbook, Human Security in World Affairs: Problems and Opportunities.

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.

Conservation Science and Practice Professor Dr. Pamela Wright received the 2020 Mitacs Award for Outstanding Leadership – Professor for her exemplary record of developing collaborations with industry and other partners, providing valuable research and training experiences to interns and initiating research projects with significant outcomes through Mitacs funding.