Windsor — The UFV Cascades will face the University of Saskatchewan Huskies in the bronze medal match at the CIS nationals on Sunday, March 16 at 2 pm PST. The game will be streamed online at www.CIS-SIC.tv The UFV Cascades women’s basketball team were simply outmatched Saturday against a very strong Windsor Lancers squad, losing…

Windsor — The UFV Cascades women’s basketball team drew first blood and then kept scoring hits in Friday's 74-60 CIS nationals semi-final victory against the McGill Martlets. Coming into the game, the Cascades were seeded fifth and McGill fourth, but UFV never trailed as they scored their way to the program’s first ever victory at…

The UFV women's basketball team returns to the CIS national championships for the second straight year this weekend. See a preview of the Final 8 teams here. The fifth-seeded Cascades tip off against fourth-seed McGill of Montreal on Fri, March 14, at 5 pm PST. You can watch it live online here:  http://english.cis-sic.ca/sports/broadcast14 .  You…

By Melanie Wickes UFV Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet opened last Friday to an excited and engaged audience. The buzz in the lobby was magnetic and the post-show reception crowd had to be (gently) pushed out the door!  As the show heads into the second week of a three-week run, here’s what some of the audience…

Do you know an individual or a group who has made the Fraser Valley a better place to live? Those people who make everyday contributions to their community but may not be recognized? Consider nominating them for the Betty Urquhart annual community service award.   Betty Urquhart was one of the first employees of Fraser…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…