Annual UFV Nursing Health Fair comes home to CEP
UFV’s annual Nursing Health Fair is coming home. After years of setting up in malls, Bachelor of Science in Nursing students will unveil diverse displays dedicated to health promotion inside UFV’s Chilliwack campus at Canada Education Park on Wednesday, March 19. Future nurses will be in the atrium of Building A from 9 am–6 pm,…Cascade women win silver medal in Canada West basketball finals
Adapted from the Cascade Athletics blog post written by Paul Esau The UFV Cascade women's basketball team is heading to the CIS national championship tournament after earning a silver medal at the Canada West Final Four tournament. The Cascades play McGill University of Quebec in the first round at 5 pm PST on Fri, March…UFV goes green with new training manual for building service
Saying Dennis Shepit is an expert in green cleaning is no exaggeration. In fact, he wrote the book on it. Shepit, an instructor with UFV’s Faculty of Trades & Technology, is the author of a new textbook for UFV’s Building Service Worker (BSW) program that focuses on environmentally sound cleaning practices and extends its scope…UFV hosts valley’s brightest math students
Some of the area’s best and brightest young mathematical minds descended on UFV’s Abbotsford campus for the Fraser Valley Math Challengers Regional Competition recently. Grade 8 and 9 contestants battled through three rounds of competition — two individual rounds and a cooperative team round — after which the top 10 individuals from each grade faced…UFV co-presents International Women’s Day event in Abbotsford
Abbotsford’s One Billion Rising event added a powerful voice with the recent inclusion of women’s rights advocate Rumana Monzur. The event, co-presented by the University of the Fraser Valley, takes place at Thunderbird Civic Plaza and The Reach Gallery Museum on International Women’s Day, March 8. Monzur made international headlines in June, 2011 after being…Come to UFV Night at Chilliwack Chiefs, Sat, March 1
UFV and the Chilliwack Chiefs Hockey Club invite you to UFV Night, Saturday, March 1 at 7 p.m. The Chiefs take on the Coquitlam Express at Chilliwack's Prospera Centre, for their last home game of the season. Tickets are $15, including a burger and large pop, with $1 going to the UFV Chilliwack Chiefs Scholarship…Wondering about the weather?
Given the wintery weather in the Fraser Valley on Monday, many people connected to UFV are understandably curious about whether UFV is open or closed. The best place to check is the UFV homepage at ufv.ca. When there are uncertain winter weather conditions, we post a link to the UFV Alerts blog, which displays in…UFV Theatre presents contemporary version of Romeo and Juliet
UFV Theatre continues its tradition of educating students and entertaining Fraser Valley audiences with a spring Shakespeare production of a contemporary version of Romeo and Juliet. Featuring seductive love poetry and thrilling stage combat, this version of Romeo and Juliet is set in a post-apocalyptic Verona. Surrounded by violence and chaos, a pair of star-cross'd…‘Dulay Factor’ propels Cascades past Pronghorns and into Canada West
The UFV Cascades men’s basketball team shifted into overdrive Friday to down the Lethbridge Pronghorns 77-62 at the Envision Athletic Centre. The victory was achieved courtesy of a UFV 27-point fourth quarter, and assures the Cascades a spot in the Canada West Final Four next weekend (Feb 28 – March 1). Both Lethbridge and UFV…Cascade men take lead in Canada West quarterfinal — second
The UFV Cascades men’s basketball team squeaked out a victory Thursday, edging the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns 66-64 in Canada West quarterfinal action. The series continues Friday, Feb 21, at 7 pm at the Envision Athletic Centre on the Abbotsford campus. The Cascades now lead the best-of-three series 1-0, one win away from a berth…They’re Not Scary — film screening at CEP Feb 20
The documentary 'They're not Scary: An Intergenerational Dance Project' will be screened at the CEP campus on Thurs, Feb. 20 at 6 pm in the black box theatre (A2106). The film tells the story of an interdisciplinary research project undertaken by UFV’s Centre for Education and Research on Aging (CERA), which saw elementary-aged school children…Cascade basketball teams both earn home-court advantage for playoffs
Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams will host home playoff series in February after earning that advantage in Canada West Pacific division league play. The women were tops in the Pacific division with a 17-5 record, while the men’s unprecedented 14-game winning streak and 17-5 record got them a second-place standing. The men’s series…