Through their philanthropy, Ann Marie and Steve Henderson, want to encourage collaboration. Their gift to UNBC's Northern Leadership Campaign is strengthening teaching excellence in the Family Nurse Practitioner program by helping students gain the knowledge they need to use point-of-care ultrasounds in practice. At the same time, the couple is supporting the Northern Clinical Simulation centre through the Spirit of North Healthcare Foundation, making it easier for medical professionals and students to improve their confidence and competence.

Timberwolves basketball player Tyrell Laing serves as a coach for Junior Timberwolves programs and at camps for Prince George youth - the very programs and camps that he attended when he was a child.

Family Nurse Practitioner student Rebecca Irving gained experience during a Northern Medical Programs Trust-supported clinical placement in Valemount.

A group of UNBC and College of New Caledonia students learned about how the United Nations operates and had the opportunity to network with other students from across the country at the Youth as Peacebuilders Forum hosted by the United Nations Association in Canada.

The University of Northern British Columbia and BC Oil and Gas Commission (Commission) partnered together to provide 30 Indigenous students with natural resource skills training used in today’s industry projects throughout Northern B.C.

When the tidal flats of the Skeena River estuary is your classroom, learning becomes an immersive experience. For Jennifer Coosemans and her classmates in Systematic Biology, that means learning goes beyond looking at slides and identifying plants in a textbook; it becomes a multi-sensory opportunity to truly understand the subject matter.

Archival research can be equal parts challenging and exhilarating. Challenging to pore over old land survey maps and delve into correspondence, but exhilarating to find those nuggets of information that connect key aspects of a research project. Now, an anonymous contribution to the Northern Leadership Campaign is making many of the books, maps and records at the archives more accessible to researchers across B.C. and around the world.

Entering her final year of studies for her undergraduate degree in Public Administration and Community Development, Sara-Lynn Harding was facing a series of challenges and a sudden case of financial hardship. The Inspiring Women Among Us award arrived just in time to help her deal with her financial obligations so she could focus on her studies.

Dr. Baljeet Malhotra is inspiring the next generation of students by giving a current UNBC student the ability to work with his team at Vancouver-based start-up TeejLab. He’s created the Research in Technology Fellowship which comes with a $10,000 financial award along with a chance to work with TeejLab scientists on a research project.