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Christiana Onabola, a ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Health Sciences PhD student, has earned a federally-funded Vanier Scholarship for her research that focuses on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how they are relevant to local populations and communities along the Nechako Watershed in British Columbia and Niger Delta in Nigeria.

History Associate Professor Dr. Jacqueline Holler and Geography Professor Dr. Greg Halseth received Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grants to continue their research programs. Holler is exploring the role women played in the practice of medicine during the colonial period. Halseth is studying the importance of local government to the economic sustainability of small towns and rural communities.

History Associate Professor Dr. Jacqueline Holler received Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant to examine how women’s healing networks in New Spain in the 16th to 18th centuries contributed to the sharing of medical knowledge and materials among people of Indigenous, Spanish, and African descent, and whether in turn that knowledge found its way into learned medicine.

With the support of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant, Geography Professor Dr. Greg Halseth is embarking on the next phase of his research into rural and small-town Canada by focusing on the critical role of local government in responding to the forces re-shaping resource-dependent communities and economies.

Every student who applies for StudentAid BC will now be automatically assessed for the new B.C. Access Grant.

How do you create a meaningful summer camp experience in the middle of a global pandemic? With public health considerations ruling out the possibility of in-person camps this summer, the ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Active Minds team got creative and created three different activity streams to keep children engaged, entertained and educated.

Interior university research coalition funds research to improve the lives of those living outside large urban centres

Aaron Ekman, the founding founding president of the North Central Labour Council, is the new Chair of ÂÜÀòÉäÇø's Board of Governors.

Six faculty members received grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council to support their research on topics that are of interest to northern British Columbia and advance the scientific knowledge in their chosen fields of study.