With the help of donors, B.A.R.K. continues to support university students struggling with homesickness and social isolation through the use of therapy dogs.
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UBC Okanagan is celebrating its 20th birthday in 2025 and we wouldn’t be where we are without the incredible support of our donors! Thank you!
For two decades, donors have helped UBC Okanagan build a remarkable campus, where our students thrive and our talented researchers drive solutions and innovation to create positive change across the globe. Here are just a few ways our campus has grown in its first 20 years.
Our growing student community
benefits from $1M+/year in
donor awards
UBCO alumni are living in the
Okanagan and around the world
Programs and courses offered
on our thriving campus
Total giving
Gifts to student awards
Gifts to research
Increase in vital spaces for teaching,
learning, research and student health & wellness
Gifts from UBC alumni
Gifts to teaching and learning
The UBC Okanagan graduating class of 2025 say thank you to awards donors
With the help of donors, B.A.R.K. continues to support university students struggling with homesickness and social isolation through the use of therapy dogs.
Read moreStudents at UBC Okanagan invested in the future of their university with a $3 million gift.
Read moreFitzpatrick’s donation named a new study space and created a scholarship for local students.
Read moreThe family established graduate and undergraduate awards to benefit students.
Read moreTheresa Arsenault created an endowed award at UBC Okanagan, to support Indigenous learners in the Aboriginal Access Studies stream.
Read moreUBCO’s dining hall is named in honour of The Colin & Lois Pritchard Foundation.
Read moreThe University of British Columbia and community outdoor sports programs scored a big field goal at UBC’s Okanagan campus with the opening of the Nonis Sports Field.
Read moreAn expansive, light-filled atrium in UBC’s Engineering, Management and Education building in Kelowna is dedicated to the memory of the late Richard S. Hallisey.
Read moreInterior Health staff, Southern Medical Program students, and UBC residents training at KGH have the opportunity to learn how to best care for our most vulnerable, thanks to a gift from The Colin & Lois Pritchard Foundation.
Read moreUBC medical students and health-care providers will get more hands-on training thanks to a donation of two new portable ultrasound machines to the UBC Southern Medical Program (SMP).
Read moreBritish Columbia’s advanced research capacity has been expanded by the new $31.5-million Charles E. Fipke Centre for Innovative Research in Kelowna.
Read moreOn September 17, 2013, the $4.1-million Hangar Fitness & Wellness Centre officially opened—funded by a $3.5-million donation from Barry Lapointe.
Read moreWith the addition of the University Centre at UBC Okanagan in 2009, students had more places to relax, study and get together .
Read moreStober Family Foundation will help students in every discipline succeed.
Read moreA Colorado educator and philanthropist donated intellectual property valued at $1.2-million to the Faculty of Education at UBC’s Okanagan campus.
Read moreImpact Foundation’s donation launched fund for support of community partnerships focused on comprehensive view of health.
Read moreUBCO, FortisBC, Mitacs renew Smart Energy Research Chair.
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