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 UNBC 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 UNBC'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.

The NSERC/Rio Tinto Industrial Research Chair on Climate Change and Water Security partnership is one year old. Led by Environmental Science Professor Dr. Stephen Déry, the project aims to better understand how climate change and human activity are impacting water security in the watershed, which stretches from the Coast mountains to the Nechako River’s mouth in Prince George where it flows into the Fraser River.

Dr. Nadezhda (Nadia) Mamontova received a prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue her research into Glafira Vasilevich's mapmaking project with the Evenki people in Siberia. Working with UNBC Geography Professor Dr. Gail Fondahl, Mamontova is exploring the methods Vasilevich used to collect the maps, examining her motivations and tracing the legacy of the place names she used.

Environmental Science Professor Dr. Peter Jackson is the newest Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Fellow