UBC Okanagan

Attention Class of 2026 families — your grad's StageClip is ready to download and keep forever. 🎓

Search their name, watch their moment, download and share it! Find it here: https://bit.ly/4vGwW2D

Congrats to the UBC MD Class of 2026 - with a special shout out to the graduates who trained in the UBC Southern Medical Program at UBC Okanagan!

The UBCO community is celebrating with you and can’t wait to see the impact you’ll make as Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia alumni. 🎓

UBC has launched a training opportunity for medical students in the East Kootenays!

Four UBC medical students are taking part in a program that places each of them in a rural community for a full academic year to train with practising physicians.

UBC Southern Medical Program, in partnership with Interior Health, created this year-long program to strengthen clinical skills and deepen community connections.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4vJRA28

Congratulations to the inaugural graduating class in the Bachelor of Sustainability!

The group of 16 students completed more than 1,100 hours of community service by working with local partners, including the City of Kelowna, the Central Okanagan Land Trust, Be The Change Earth Alliance and the Kelowna & District SHARE Society.

The graduates are heading into careers in environmental consulting, planning, field biology, wildfire management, GIS, agriculture and resource stewardship, with others pursuing graduate studies in planning and education.

Nine years ago, Kamalpreet Kaur arrived in Canada from India. Nursing wasn't an option without permanent residency so she waited, earned her citizenship, and last week, she earned her degree.

Kaur received the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Inclusion, Democracy and Reconciliation. She advocates for racialized and underrepresented nurses through the BC Nurses Union, is developing a peer support platform for new graduate nurses, and plans to pursue a nurse practitioner designation next year.

"I didn't feel it was possible for me, for a first-generation immigrant to receive such an honour. But it was magical."

Read more about this year's award winners: https://bit.ly/4ec5uCS

Two days. Six ceremonies. Congratulations to the Class of 2026. 
 
The work you put in to reach this moment was extraordinary. What comes next will be too.

YOU DID THAT! 🎓