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By Caden Fanshaw

UNBC

UNBC benefiting from substantial increase in research funding

Dec 10, 2020 | 4:40 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – New funding has bolstered a big boost in research efforts at UNBC for both faculty and students.

The University of Northern BC has seen a nearly $4 million dollar increase in funding since 2018. Receiving the most for any university of its size in the latest edition of Canada’s Top 50 Research Universities produced by Research Infosource Inc.

The extra dollars help in a big way to give opportunities for undergraduate students just like now Masters student Stephanie Wilford.

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Wilford says she got funding and opportunities for her vegetative research on the Shovel Lake wildfire near Fraser Lake she may not have gotten elsewhere.

“Because of the size of the university, I was able to thrive as an undergrad, and connect with professors,” says Wilford.

From Vancouver Island, Wilford came to Prince George in 2017 to finish her Bachelor’s Degree in Forestry and is doing her Masters’s in Natural Resources and Environmental Studies in Forestry/Biology.

Dr. Kathy Lewis, Acting Vice President of Research at UNBC Kathy Lewis says the amount of community studies that students get to do is largely because of the availability of funding.

In 2019, UNBC’s research income increased by 42.5 per cent, the largest increase of any university in the undergraduate tier in the latest edition of Canada’s Top 50 Research Universities.

The research that Wilford started on the Shovel Lake wildfire Wilford says is in the beginning stages with more expected to be released in the coming months.