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UBC Okanagan study participants Bruce Aitken, Vicens Paneque, and Sophia Vanslyke with her father, Stephen.

Pushing endurance limits

Study aims to uncover how endurance training transforms body and mind

Spotlight

Dr. Sharmila Anandasabapathy, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Vice-President of Health

Leadership one-on-one with Dr. Sharmila Anandasabapathy

Meet the new Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Vice-President of Health

Climate Emergency Week at UBC

Participate in Climate Emergency Week

Take transformative action for justice, people and the planet

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See MOA’s new feature exhibition

Join the opening night of ‘Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images’

Explore UBC

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What 45-per-cent tariffs mean for BC’s forest sector

What’s driving the dispute and what it could mean for mills, workers and communities

Bird

130 species in Ontario at risk of local extinction

An investment of just $7 per Ontarian would help 75 per cent of these species recover

Person presenting on stage

Want to be more persuasive? Talk with your hands

Study finds that purposeful hand gestures can boost persuasiveness and perceived competence

The Surrey Biofuel Facility.

Innovation, Research

Researchers discover microbes turning food waste into energy

Previously unknown bacterium plays a crucial role in this process

Red pill and blue pill

Study debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation

Research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically proven this isn’t just unlikely—it’s impossible

Sea otter floating on water

‘Forever’ chemicals found in BC sea otters

Research shows otters near cities carried triple the toxic load of more remote animals

We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.