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Wednesday, October 19, 2016 1:00 PM
During her eight years at Vancouver Island University (VIU), Master of Business Administration (MBA) grad Sherry McCarthy learned about business, her heritage – and herself.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016 3:03 PM
Starting post-secondary education as an adult learner may seem daunting, but many keen students take on this challenge at Northwest Community College (NWCC) and are rewarded with careers that they love.
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Friday, October 14, 2016 10:38 AM
Vancouver Island University (VIU) alumna Larissa Richards is spending her summer back at her alma mater, hard at work in VIU’s Applied Environmental Research Laboratories (AERL). But the University of Victoria (UVic) PhD candidate did get a break from her schedule when she was asked to participate in a six week course at the Copenhagen School of Chemometrics.
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Thursday, October 13, 2016 2:00 PM
Banpreet grew up in Ludhiana, Punjab, India, where he became interested in sciences. He always dreamt of studying abroad, and when he learned about the Applied Science for Engineering Program at Langara, he knew he had found the right place.
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Thursday, October 6, 2016 2:16 PM
Okanagan-native Cameron McDermid knew from an early age that he liked science but it wasn’t until his final years in high school, with the help of both family and school mentors, that he set his sights on an engineering career. ”Along with my family, who always supported my interest in science, my high school math teacher encouraged me to pursue engineering,” he said.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2016 2:30 PM
Current reclamation research taking place at the historic Ajax-Afton tailings site has earned graduate student Paul Antonelli a $5,000 scholarship.
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Friday, September 30, 2016 9:38 AM
UNBC’s PhD in Health Sciences was launched in 2012. It is interdisciplinary in nature and directly addresses the needs of health science researchers and professionals in B.C. and beyond.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016 3:39 PM
Kamloops native Jayden Ockenden has always wanted a career where he could make a difference in someone’s life. He had initially planned to pursue a career in law enforcement. But spending his summers as a wildland firefighter while he studied at SFU helped him discover his true calling as a firefighter.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016 12:40 PM
The changing climate in the Okanagan has broad implications for agricultural pest control, including increasing populations of problem species, and the arrival of new pests in the region.
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Thursday, September 22, 2016 5:27 PM
Chris Taylor speaks enthusiastically about his time at Camosun: “It’s a great college, I really like it. I’ve met a lot of friends here and I love to expand my horizons.”
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