Image Credit: Submitted/UBCO February 02, 2021 - 7:30 AM With a student population of about 11,000, UBCO is not yet bursting at the seams of its Kelowna campus. And, with at least 7,000 more students expected by 2040, that campus will continue to slowly grow and evolve. In about three years, UBCO will also start to draw 500 to 600 students into downtown Kelowna. “We want to be where we’re going to be most effective in interacting with the broader community on those kinds of activities that we would refer to as outward-facing,” Phil Barker, vice-principal of research and innovation at UBCO, told iNFOnews.ca when asked why they were looking at building a downtown campus.
Kathryn Armstrong
New life for the beautful building on Harrogate s Stray
- Credit: Pickled Sprout
Many people don’t have the greatest relationship with a sprout, pickled or otherwise, but when they arrive in a haze of twinkly lights and burst of botanics, what’s not to love?
The Pickled Sprout is the gorgeous new incarnation of The Yorkshire Hotel on the Stray in Harrogate. December is the season of the sprout so it seems fitting that this place should open up at this time of year.
The exterior of the building is gilded in golden lights and looks shimmery-perfect and so inviting. Opening a new place in the midst of a pandemic is a brave move but all the Covid-safe stuff is second nature to hotels and bars now and it’s no different here – even clever gadgetry to check your temperature at the hotel reception.
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Funding will enable the establishment of a cleantech hub at the University of British Columbia s Okanagan campus that will develop and commercialize clean technologies
KELOWNA, BC, Jan. 15, 2021 /CNW/ - The Government of Canada is committed to supporting a competitive, green economy by leveraging opportunities to promote sustainable technologies. That includes investing in innovation that recycles materials normally thrown away into value-added commodities.
Government of Canada announces support for innovation in clean technology and sustainable materials (CNW Group/Western Economic Diversification Canada)
Today, the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages and Minister responsible for Western Economic Diversification Canada, announced $1.9 million in funding to the University of British Columbia s Okanagan campus (UBCO) to develop an innovation hub that will promote clean technologies that convert ca
A new innovation hub in the Okanagan will promote clean technologies that convert industrial waste into new, sustainable products, thanks in part to WD.
UBC, UNB receive funding from feds, Bell for innovation programming
The Government of Canada and Bell each recently announced planned investments in cleantech and cybersecurity development totalling $3.1 million at two Canadian universities.
Through Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD), the federal government is investing $1.9 million to fund the creation of a cleantech innovation hub at the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Okanagan campus. Across the country, telecom giant Bell is investing $1.2 million to support a comprehensive cybersecurity education program offered through the University of New Brunswick (UNB).
The projects seek to address the climate crisis and shortage of skilled cybersecurity workers.