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  1. May 19, 2023

    UBC postdoctoral researcher receives Mitacs Entrepreneur Award

    Environmental Entrepreneur: Kevin Kung, post-doctoral researcher in the Biomass and Bioenergy Research Group at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and CTO of Takachar. Kung is helping to improve air quality worldwide by giving farmers an environmentally friendly alternative to open-air burning and foresters a better way to manage flammable forest residue. His breakthrough innovation, a small-scale, portable system, converts costly crop and forest residues (biomass) into higher value bioproducts

  2. May 5, 2023

    UBCO honours this year’s most outstanding researchers

    UBC Okanagan is celebrating six outstanding researchers with one of its most prestigious research awards—Researcher of the Year.The award recognizes the ways in which UBCO researchers—three faculty and three graduate student or postdoctoral fellows—are making the world a better place through excellence in research and scholarly activity.

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.



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