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- UBCO researcher discusses the importance of science literacy
- UBCO research team plans community events for World Diabetes Day
- UBCO researcher named Chair for Women in Science and Engineering
- New research proves diet can put Type 2 diabetes into remission
- UBCO recent graduate aims for podium
- Going the Distance
- UBCO enhances science and engineering outreach programs
- No time to exercise? No problem, says UBCO researcher
- A Winning Combination
- UBCO honours four outstanding researchers of the year
- UBCO researchers examine how e-cigarette users quit
- Pulse check: How is your mental health?
- Expressions of Reconciliation
- UBCO student receives gift of a lifetime from younger sibling
- UBCO cardiovascular researcher urges women to listen to their hearts
- UBCO hosts international Thinking Qualitatively conference
- UBC Okanagan collaboration supports seniors nationally
- Blazing a path towards health equity
- Province partners with Interior universities for COVID-19 research solutions
- Reflecting on what really was the Year of the Nurse
- UBCO research shows kids have plenty of resilience
- UBCO sociologist discusses how to prepare for the emotional toll of wildfire evacuation
- UBCO researchers peer into the mental health of social workers
- UBCO researchers examine how pandemics impact the homeless
- UBCO’s children’s social work mental health clinic goes virtual
- Street homeless people learn to ‘perform’ to obtain life-sustaining resources
- Standardized measures needed to screen kinship foster placements
- UBC research identifies gaps when it comes to helping youth diagnosed with early stages of psychosis
- UBCO researchers link advertising to uptick in youth vaping
- Collaboration aims to improve services for homeless