Last week we had the pleasure of receiving a visit by Dr Doug Owram, Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Principal of the UBC Okanagan campus. UBC has more than 40,000 students, 9,000 faculty and staff, and places 22nd in the THE world rankings. Okanagan is their relatively new research-intensive campus based midway between Vancouver and Calgary.
This link started over a year ago with the Okanagan Economic Development Commission who were interested in exploring connections between regional companies with York Science Park. This developed into discussions with UBC Okanagan about possible areas for research and student exchange links.
Dr Owram, who was welcomed to the University by Professor Trevor Sheldon, our Deputy Vice Chancellor, met a range of Departments including Chemistry, Biology, Health Sciences, Theatre, Film and Television, York Management School and the Humanities Research Centre. From the discussions held it was clear there was much common interest and we’ll now be working on specific collaboration agreements.
We already have good links with a number of other Canadian universities including the University of Alberta, York University, and the University of Toronto and with this partnership we are looking forward to expanding these alliances further.
Harriet Cross, International Relations Officer
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