For the third time in seven years, Maclean’s Magazine has ranked the University of Northern British Columbia as the top university in its category in Canada.
Looking at daily national counts of police-reported youth cannabis offenses, Dr. Russ Callaghan and his team found that the 2018 legalization of cannabis in Canada was associated with immediate reductions in these types of offenses.
Anthropology Assistant Professor Dr. Lianne Tripp is studying how immunity passports were used to combat yellow fever in Gibraltar in the early 19th century and how they influenced public health decisions today.
UNBC researchers Dr. Shannon Freeman and Dr. Chelsea Pelletier are co-leading the northern B.C. component of the Dementia-Inclusive Choices for Exercise project.
Northern Medical Program researcher Dr. Kendra Furber has been named a 2021 MSFHR Scholar; the award, which recognizes early career health researchers, will support her work on investigating the biology of the myelin sheath in the brain.
Nenachalhuya – The Cedar Plank Project is now on display in Lhuhuhwhezdel: Gathering Place at UNBC's Prince George campus. Artist Clayton Gauthier hand-carved and hand-painted 32 cedar planks with submitted logos from 32 nations across northern B.C.
Dr. Peter Bentley served UNBC as its Chancellor and was a long-time supporter of UNBC through his generous philanthropy. Dr. Bentley passed away on Sept. 6, 2021.
This fall, UNBC researchers will be in the field studying Pineapple Express storms in the Coast Mountains. These atmospheric rivers bring heavy doses of rain and snow to the region. This first-of-its-kind experiment in Canada is part of the NSERC/Rio Tinto Industrial Research Chair in Climate Change and Water Security project.