UBC professor Naomi McPherson next editor-in-chief of Anthropologica
Naomi McPherson, associate professor of anthropology at UBC’s Okanagan campus, has been named the next editor-in-chief of Anthropologica, the Journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society. McPherson will succeed current editor-in-chief Andrew Lyons, professor emeritus of anthropology at Wilfrid Laurier University. In making the announcement, the executive board of the Canadian Anthropology Society described McPherson as […]
UBC professor wins Eleanor Roosevelt Global Citizenship Award
Anthropology Professor Diana French, acting head of the Community, Culture and Global Studies Unit at UBC’s Okanagan campus, has won Public Anthropology’s Eleanor Roosevelt Global Citizenship Award. Named to honour the 20th century’s “First Lady of the World,” the award recognizes French’s exceptionally effective participation in Public Anthropology’s Community Action Online Project, as well as […]
Pianist Robert Silverman performs free public concert at UBC
One of Canada’s premiere pianists, Robert Silverman will be at UBC’s Okanagan campus on October 27 to perform three of Beethoven’s sonatas.
Putting it in writing
Chara DeVolder is helping preserve an Indigenous language by putting it into written form for the first time.
UBC focuses on cultural safety in local healthcare
UBC researchers have partnered with members of local healthcare organizations on a research initiative that aims to strengthen cultural safety and effect organizational change for aboriginal healthcare in the Okanagan Valley.
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UBC students create fire mapping social network for Okanagan
If you live in the Okanagan Valley chances are good you have been affected by a forest fire in some way.
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UBC Okanagan researcher of the year honours shared by Evans and Murch
Social science researcher Michael Evans and biochemistry researcher Susan Murch have been honoured as co-recipients of the 2009-2010 UBC Okanagan Researcher of the Year award.
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