UFV in the News Archive
A new campus with a health and wellness focus
UFV is making a very exciting move into the new facilities at the Canada Education Park in Chilliwack. Joining the already established Trades and Technology Centre at the new CEP campus will be most of the programs from the Chilliwack campus on Yale Road. The new campus will have a special focus on health and…
A timeline of UFV’s Chilliwack campus at Canada Education Park
1995 — Federal government announces closures of several military bases, including CFB Chilliwack, as a cost-cutting measure. CFB Chilliwack winds up operations in 1997. 1997 — UFV (then UCFV) commissions study for an International Centre on former base lands. March 2003 — Partners submit proposal for Canadian Research, Education, Science & Technology Park to the…An introduction to CEP: stops on a tour of UFV’s
Welcome to the new building at Canada Education Park! The new building at Canada Education Park is a 150,000 square-foot facility. Half of the facility is new construction (library, dental clinic an classrooms, faculty offices) and the remainder is a repurpose of an existing Military Engineering School building at the site. Come on in! Take…UFV in the News: Darryl Plecas to speak at the
UFV crime expert to speak at the UN By Vikki Hopes - Abbotsford News The crime-fighting success of the Abbotsford Police Department (APD) is among the topics that will be presented next month in New York by a UFV criminology expert. Darryl Plecas, RCMP research chair at University of the Fraser Valley’s school of criminology…
Lenore Newman in Maclean’s magazine: What you’ll be eating soon
Dr. Lenore Newman, UFV's Canada Research Chair in food security and environment, was recently interviewed for an article in Maclean's magazine. Read the excerpt below. For the full article, click here: http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/04/20/tomorrows-food/ It could be we’ll discover some delicious new green that’s barely known here, like a blue lettuce from Afghanistan that Schonwald describes, or…
Fraser Valley winners on to national science fair
Fraser Valley winners on to national science fair From The Abbotsford News. April 2, 2012 Eric LeGresley of St. John Brebeuf was the big winner for his science fair project entitled Computational Methods for the Design and Screening of Novel Neuraminidase Inhibitors. Photo courtesy Mike Haire The Fraser Valley Regional Science Fair, held at UFV…
UFV celebrates International Women’s Day
The Abbotsford Mission Times recently featured UFV's event celebrating International Women's Day. Read the article below: Women form coalition Tears, music and more at IWD celebration By Christina Toth, The Times March 13, 2012 Raw personal stories, soulful music and a police officer's tears marked a moving International Women's Day at the University of the…
Review praises UFV Dental Hygiene students
This article/review highlighting the work of the UFV Dental Hygiene students was recently featured on Chilliwack Today. Read the full story below: By Cee Archer. Let me start off by saying that I have a very strong dental phobia. While I’ve always gone to the dentist when I had benefits, it was very easy for…
Rivers Dining Room featured on Shaw TV
Shaw TV recently visited Rivers Dining Room at the UFV Chilliwack Trades and Technology campus. The dining room offers seatings on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at 6:30 p.m. Each week, the menu is a prix fixe four-course meal for $25 prepared by UFV’s Culinary Arts cooks-in-training. For more on the Rivers dining experience, and the…
UFV athlete, coach, and sociologist tackle Abbotsford’s Lingerie Football League
From Abbotsford Times, Feb 15, 2012, by Rochelle Baker For the most part, University of the Fraser Valley athlete Tessa Klassen is puzzled by the very concept of the Lingerie Football League, which is going to be based in Abbotsford this fall. Klassen, captain of the UFV Cascades women's basketball team and last…
No fooling UFV’s Davida Kidd on the value of art
The University Lecture Series recently hosted by UFV's Davida Kidd was highlighted by the Chilliwack Times. The article appeared online on Tuesday, Jan 31. A Vancouver billboard questioning the social value of art inspired Davida Kidd to dive into her latest project. "Who Needs Art When You Have a View Like This!" was the influential…UFV Cascades featured in The Province
The Province recently highlighted an upcoming match between the UFV Cascades men's basketball team and the UBC Thunderbirds. Friesen, Cascades help make Abbotsford the centre of the CIS hoops world this weekend By Howard Tsumura This weekend, Abbotsford is the centre of the Canadian university basketball world. Let that roll off the tongue a few…
UFV English professor takes part in Dead Man’s Cell Phone
UFV's Virginia Cooke, who is playing a role in the production of Dead Man's Cell Phone, was recently featured in an article by the Langley Advance. By Roxanne Hooper Old enough to take retirement seminars seriously, Fort Langley's Virginia Cooke has no aspirations of growing up to be an actor. But as a university English…
UFV alumnus featured on CBC’s Dragon’s Den
UFV alumnus Alex McCaulay was recently featured on CBC's hit reality TV show, Dragon' Den. This article was featured in The Chilliwack Progress. By Katie Bartel - Chilliwack Progress Watch out Calvin Klein, the owners of Naked have their sights set on you. In just one year of production, the underwear line with Chilliwack origins…
Renovation and renewal: Stantec brings new life to existing structures
Renovation and renewal are the cornerstones of Phase II of the UFV Canada Education campus, helping to redefine the buildings and bring a new vision the university. Having previously been built as a military engineering school, the challenge was to repurpose, renovate, and expand this building to create an exciting and vibrant new campus for…Crunching some numbers: what went into the new building at
The University of the Fraser Valley has room to grow for decades with its big move to the Canada Education Park. UFV owns 85 acres of land at the CEP, set adjacent to the Vedder River on the former Canadian Forces Base Chilliwack, which closed in 1997. On May 11, it officially opened the second…Extreme Makeover — UFV edition.
Call it Extreme Makeover — UFV edition. The new building at the Canada Education Park in Chilliwack that UFV opened this week isn’t exactly new, but it isn’t exactly old either. It is a bold reimagining of what was an engineering school (built for that purpose but never used for that purpose) that was mothballed…A new campus with a health and wellness focus
UFV is making a very exciting move into the new facilities at the Canada Education Park in Chilliwack. Joining the already established Trades and Technology Centre at the new CEP campus will be most of the programs from the Chilliwack campus on Yale Road. The new campus will have a special focus on health and…A timeline of UFV’s Chilliwack campus at Canada Education Park
1995 — Federal government announces closures of several military bases, including CFB Chilliwack, as a cost-cutting measure. CFB Chilliwack winds up operations in 1997. 1997 — UFV (then UCFV) commissions study for an International Centre on former base lands. March 2003 — Partners submit proposal for Canadian Research, Education, Science & Technology Park to the…An introduction to CEP: stops on a tour of UFV’s
Welcome to the new building at Canada Education Park! The new building at Canada Education Park is a 150,000 square-foot facility. Half of the facility is new construction (library, dental clinic an classrooms, faculty offices) and the remainder is a repurpose of an existing Military Engineering School building at the site. Come on in! Take…UFV in the News: Darryl Plecas to speak at the
UFV crime expert to speak at the UN By Vikki Hopes - Abbotsford News The crime-fighting success of the Abbotsford Police Department (APD) is among the topics that will be presented next month in New York by a UFV criminology expert. Darryl Plecas, RCMP research chair at University of the Fraser Valley’s school of criminology…Lenore Newman in Maclean’s magazine: What you’ll be eating soon
Dr. Lenore Newman, UFV's Canada Research Chair in food security and environment, was recently interviewed for an article in Maclean's magazine. Read the excerpt below. For the full article, click here: http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/04/20/tomorrows-food/ It could be we’ll discover some delicious new green that’s barely known here, like a blue lettuce from Afghanistan that Schonwald describes, or…Fraser Valley winners on to national science fair
Fraser Valley winners on to national science fair From The Abbotsford News. April 2, 2012 Eric LeGresley of St. John Brebeuf was the big winner for his science fair project entitled Computational Methods for the Design and Screening of Novel Neuraminidase Inhibitors. Photo courtesy Mike Haire The Fraser Valley Regional Science Fair, held at UFV…UFV celebrates International Women’s Day
The Abbotsford Mission Times recently featured UFV's event celebrating International Women's Day. Read the article below: Women form coalition Tears, music and more at IWD celebration By Christina Toth, The Times March 13, 2012 Raw personal stories, soulful music and a police officer's tears marked a moving International Women's Day at the University of the…Review praises UFV Dental Hygiene students
This article/review highlighting the work of the UFV Dental Hygiene students was recently featured on Chilliwack Today. Read the full story below: By Cee Archer. Let me start off by saying that I have a very strong dental phobia. While I’ve always gone to the dentist when I had benefits, it was very easy for…
