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James Seabrook, UBC Okanagan engineering alumnus and founder of Vitalis Energy Technologies, adjusts a control system at the company's Kelowna manufacturing facility.

Pushing the economy forward

A made-in-BC heat pump with global impact

Spotlight

Vancouver Convention Centre

Connect with UBC at BC Business House

We’re showcasing the people, partnerships and ideas advancing BC’s key economic sectors

People doing yoga on Main Mall at UBC Vancouver.

Yoga at the mall

Classes are free to attend and open to all students, faculty, staff and visitors

Dr. Amy Charkowski, Dean, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Dr. Amy Charkowski appointed Dean, Faculty of Land and Food

Dr. Charkowski will begin her five-year term on October 1, 2026

Explore UBC

Person sitting at home looking distressed.

New study explores how people with schizophrenia experience heat inside their homes

Research aims to support better, more inclusive planning and responses to extreme heat

Group photo of UBC Okanagan hosting a BC government delegation for a site tour highlighting wildfire technology, research and prescribed fire training.

Community, Innovation, Research

BC ministers find the wildfire tech, training Canada needs now at UBC Okanagan

Ministerial visit comes as campus shifts its academic focus to economic and community resilience

Yunfei Li, a PhD candidate at UBC's Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, leads a walking tour of downtown Vancouver that showcases sustainability initiatives.

Community, Research

Can a walk through downtown Vancouver change how we think about climate change?

Researchers are exploring new ways to engage people on climate change through Urban Future Walks

Romina Tantaleán-Castañeda, Jade Radke, Simon Beaudoin and Kimberly Grogan.

Innovation, People, Research

Meet four UBC Arts PhD students advancing climate solutions

Learn how their work is helping build a more sustainable future

Child using asthma inhaler.

Gut fungi may hold the key to treating asthma, allergies worldwide

Certain species of fungi in the gut play a key role in the development of immune dysregulation

Food container being placed in the fridge.

How changing your diet could help save the world

Research shows nearly half the global population need to change their diets to curb climate change

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.