Dr. Joanne MacLean will be joining the University of the Fraser Valley as Dean of the new Faculty of Health Sciences on August 1. This is a new role heading up a new faculty, one created by bringing the Kinesiology and Physical Education department together with programs in Nursing, Practical Nursing, Dental Assisting, Dental Hygiene,…

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…

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…

  The Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Fraser Valley will be able to equip its new dental labs in style, thanks to the support of the Rotary Club of Chilliwack Fraser. The club recently hosted its annual Swing Into Spring fundraising event, raising nearly $45,000. The majority of funds raised will…

The sound of the Beach Boys fills the room, bursting from a tiny boombox in the corner. The wheelchairs, about 15 of them, are arranged in a circle with a few gaps. The grey-haired elders all have their eyes fixed upon the circle’s centre — a group of energetic students from the University of the…

Adrian Dix and Gwen O’Mahony of the NDP visited Canada Education Park (CEP) this past Friday to help raise awareness of colorectal cancer.  UFV’s new building at CEP, which will house UFV’s Health Sciences was the natural choice for the press conference. The issue of colorectal cancer awareness is close to Dix’s heart — his…

Pleasant View Care Home is easy to miss if you’re not looking for it — a long, low building tucked behind a stand of trees on the outskirts of Mission, labeled with a simple wooden sign. Through a set of double doors are wide halls painted in warm colours, where seniors sit in chairs chatting,…

If you’re a pregnant woman who will be having her baby in a Fraser Valley hospital between September and April, you’re in high demand by University of the Fraser Valley nursing students. Mothers-to-be who will be having their babies in the Fraser Valley are once again invited to help a UFV nursing student learn about…

Kyriel Funk of Abbotsford almost didn’t find out she won the Lieutenant Governor’s medal this year. “I’d paid my tuition online but I’d made a mistake and was $36 short,” she says with a laugh, “so when I saw that I had a voicemail from UFV, I didn’t even listen to it. I just raced…

Building relationships, gaining confidence, and being humbled are just a few of the experiences had by a group of UFV students on a recent trip to Antigua with the Champions for Health Promoting Schools program. In its seventh year, the project also reached new heights — from being commended by the Antiguan minister of education,…

Following an early morning tropical rainstorm over the Caribbean island of Antigua, the sun eventually came out on Friday afternoon, helping a group of UFV students host a successful Unity Games. The event is described as a Canadian sports day with a twist, by UFV Kinesiology instructor Joanna Sheppard. This is Sheppard's seventh year hosting…

UFV students hit the Antiguan airwaves on air Wednesday morning to highlight their program, Champions for Health Promoting Schools. Mackenzie Edwards of Abbotsford and Amber Major from Agassiz were featured on the popular morning show,  Goodmorning Jo Jo on Hitz FM 91.9. Along with UFV Kinesiology instructor Joanna Sheppard, the creator of the program, they…