The hard work of UFV students spanning a cross-section of studies was on display recently at the annual Student Research Day. Presented by the UFV Research Advisory Council, the event featured students presenting their research during three-minute talks (also called microlectures), and poster presentations. To take part, students had to conduct research under the supervision…

  Teaching life skills through physical and health education is the goal for a group of UFV students heading to Antigua for the month of May. The 18 students will be heading to the Caribbean island for four weeks for a project titled Champions for Health Promoting Schools. Consisting of mostly kinesiology and physical education…

This spring, from April 25 to 29, the two theatre spaces on the Chilliwack campus of The University of The Fraser Valley will be buzzing with life and creativity, as Directors’ Theatre Festival performers from throughout the province strut -their- stuff on stage. This is the Seventeenth  Annual Directors’ Theatre Festival at UFV and the…

Continuing Education (now Continuing Studies) has been an integral part of UFV since we were founded in 1974. If fact the first UFV employees were continuing education planners seconded from the school districts. Continuing Studies director Cheryl Isaac invited past and current CE colleagues to tour the new UFV Clearbrook Centre on Sunday, April 22.…

They are names that make headlines for a short while. Then they recede, perhaps to only appear again for a 30-second sound bite if an arrest or subsequent trial ever takes place. They are the victims of violent crime. Often, they are the parents, siblings, or best friends of a murder victim or of somebody…

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…

Oh, the stories they could tell! UFV recognized some long-term, and some long, long, looooooooooong-term employees on April 10 with two celebrations. In an afternoon ceremony, some of the more than one hundred 10- and 20-year employees from 2011 and 2012 were recognized and thanked by President Mark Evered, Board Chair Larry Stinson, FSA President…

Three outstanding UFV employees were honoured recently in the inaugural Employee Excellence awards. The awards recognize and celebrate employees who have inspired others through their outstanding achievement within the university and/or their community. Hope centre coordinator Hilary Kennedy, senior advisor on indigenous affairs Shirley Hardman of Chilliwack, and political science professor Rita Dhamoon, based at…

Kyle Grewal, men’s basketball and Kayla Bruce, women’s volleyball, are 2012 University of the Fraser Valley Cascades athletes of the year.   Colton O’Neill, men’s soccer, and Krista Hogewoning, women’s volleyball, are the UFV Cascades Rookies of the Year.  The Cascades celebrated the 2011-12 varsity season, at the Ramada Plaza and Conference Centre, at the annual…

From March 28 to 30, 2012, the UFV community helped kick off the annual Canadian Cancer Society’s April fundraiser with daffodil sales at several locations on the Abbotsford campus. 37 volunteers sold daffodils and daffodil pins to students, faculty and staff. “This year, we also sold 100 cupcakes, donated by Thrifty Foods,” said Michelle Rickaby,…

The Abbotsford campus will be closed on Friday, Sunday, and Monday except for Building G and Library hours as follows: Friday, April 6:  noon–6 pm Saturday, April 7:  10 am–6 pm Sunday, April 8:  noon–6 pm Monday, April 9:  noon–6 pm. The Chilliwack Yale Road campus will also be closed on Friday, Sunday, and Monday.…

The UFV Varsity COED Cheer Team competed for the very first time at the sixth annual Sea to Sky cheerleading competition.  The competition was held at the Vancouver Convention Center on March 31 and April 1. The UFV team of 16 athletes competed against the teams:  University of Regina, SFU red, UBC and SFU white,…