Northern Analytical Lab Services achieved the ISO/IEC 17025 International standard for testing and calibration laboratories, meaning it can produce and provide reliable water, soil and air test results for both UNBC researchers and external stakeholders.

Dr. Sarah Gray with the Northern Medical Program (NMP) received a Government of Canada New Frontiers in Research Fund – Exploration award to explore a new way to treat type 2 diabetes.

An international team of researchers, including those from UNBC, have found that core areas within B.C.'s inland temperate rainforest are at risk of ecosystem collapse within nine to 18 years if provincial logging practices don’t change.

Dr. Darian Goldin Stahl is bringing art and medicine together through her 2021 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, a prestigious national research award. Working with Dr. Sarah de Leeuw, UNBC professor in Geography and with the UBC Northern Medical Program, Stahl is undertaking an artist’s book project highlighting the impacts of illness from a patient perspective, which will provide a unique learning resource for medical students.

UNBC Engineering Assistant Professor Dr. Wenbo Zheng received federal funding to continue his research into making shale gas and geothermal energy extraction safer and more efficient.

Global and International Studies Associate Professor Dr. Nathan Andrews received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant to examine if companies in the natural resources sector are engaging in meaningful consultation, both in the Global South and the High North.

British Columbia is home to spectacular outdoor recreational spaces, but not all of them are accessible to everyone. School of Planning and Sustainability Associate Professor Dr. Mark Groulx, Spinal Cord Injury BC, and a team of researchers are exploring ways to change that so everyone can enjoy the benefits of spending time in the natural world.

Accelerating glacier melt and the loss of mountain snowpack will have a significant impact on water security for people in the Himalaya-Karakoram in southern Asia. Geography Assistant Professor Dr. Joseph Shea co-authored a new paper in the journal Science examining which populations will be impacted and how different river basins will be affected.

Monte Cassino, the first house of the Benedictine Order of Catholic priests, has been destroyed and rebuilt many times over the centuries. Dean of the Faculty of Indigenous Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities Dr. Kriston Rennie traces that tumultuous history as he explores the abbey as a cultural product.