On December 13th, 2018 Dr. Paula Brown received a letter of appointment as a visiting Professor of Pharmacy Science of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine from University President Mr. Yuhui Qin. Dr. Paula Brown, Director of Natural Health and Food Products Research Group (NRG) and CRC Chair in Phytoanalytics focuses on the basic and applied […]
BCIT and UBC Okanagan partner with private cannabis company
Partnership announcement between BCIT, UBC and a private cannabis company, Pacific Rim Brands. Dr. Paula Brown, Director of BCIT’s Natural Health and Food Products Research Group (NRG) and Canada Research Chair in Phytoanalytics, and Dr. Susan Murch, who teaches chemistry at UBC Okanagan, have partnered with Pacific Rim Brands, a Kelowna-based integrated cannabis company to develop beverage formulas containing […]
Saving lives by bashing concrete blocks together
Blog post by student researcher: Heidi Fedorak, School of Energy Ever wonder why a place like San Francisco can go through a major earthquake with less severe destruction than a similar seismic event happening in other parts of the world? This summer, I had a chance to help BCIT on a theory that may play a […]
Creating an app to measure the strength of concrete blocks
Blog post by student researcher: Miles Adamson, School of Computing and Academic Studies The non-destructive acoustic resonance testing project – NDART for short — that I am working on aims to create a smartphone app which can measure the strength of concrete blocks from the sound they make. The standard method of insuring the quality […]
MAKE+Team Celebrates 10-year Milestone
“BCIT’s MAKE+ is an excellent place for your product development work to be done with a professional team that works to meet the needs of your company” Lisa Fraser, Snug Vest – NSERC Engage program. The certification of PART (a sub group of MAKE+) to ISO 13485 and ISO 9001 for 10 years has been […]