Near the top of each on-air interview, Victoria Surtees, the host and creator of the new UFV Ekta podcast series, asks each guest the same two-part question: “What is one time you have felt powerful and one time you have felt powerless?”  For the UFV students on the other end of those questions, it has…

Heading out on a road trip this summer? We have the perfect driving companion for you. And maybe we’re a little biased, but UFV has some of the most brilliant and fascinating minds in education.  The UFV Get to Know podcast digs a little deeper with UFV’s expert faculty and staff. You might know our…

The beautiful thing about academics is that it is never too late to learn and it doesn't have to come in a perfectly straight path. Dr. Michael Gaetz, an associate professor in Kinesiology at UFV, took the long road from working in a gas station in his early adulthood to becoming one of the country's…

We are living in a new environment when it comes to our careers. The chain reaction from the COVID-19 pandemic has altered where we work (remote versus in-person), sparked a Great Resignation, and given a lot of the leverage back to the employee. Dr. Candy Ho, the first-ever assistant professor of Integrative Career & Capstone…

Last month, the UFV Communications team debuted the Get to Know podcast, a 30-minute podcast where you get an in-depth perspective of some of UFV's most interesting minds through candid discussions -- exploring their areas of expertise and gaining a glimpse of who they are when they're not at UFV. Our first guest is Dr.…

The UFV Communications team has created a 30-minute podcast called Get to Know, where you can get to know (see what we did there?) some of UFV's most interesting minds through candid discussions -- exploring their areas of expertise and gaining a glimpse of who they are when they're not at UFV.  Our first guest…