Research Community News

Discover the latest news from across the VP Research & Innovation portfolio through our aggregated news and events feed below.

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Get a monthly curated summary of research opportunities, funding and deadlines compiled by the service units of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation portfolio. 

VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Funding includes 26 awards to UBC research trainees to support health research at UBC and its affiliated health research institutions.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Suzanne Richardson and Fred Woo have been awarded the President’s Staff Award for Collaborative Excellence for their work as the management team for the Animal Care, Biosafety, Radiation Safety, and Chemical Safety Committees. 
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Funding includes 16 awards to UBC faculty members through the Scholar Program to support health research at UBC and its affiliated health research institutions.
Event Date: Oct 25, 2023
VPRI Unit: SPARC

SPARC have updated the Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Playbook for the CY2024 Competition (applications due fall 2023). This resource is a comprehensive guide available to UBC faculty applying for the NSERC RTI competition. CWL is required to view.

Please find the RTI Playbook here.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Award recognizes Dr. Cranston's research expanding the use of nanocellulose, derived from sustainable bio-based resources like wood pulp, in technologies that offer environmentally-friendly alternatives to petrochemical-based materials and plastics.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Seven UBC faculty members have been named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. Three UBC faculty members were named as Members of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
Event Date: Sep 12, 2023
VPRI Unit: SPARC

NSERC and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) will be hosting joint webinars on the new NSERC-CSE Research Communities grants. These sessions will be offered virtually via Webex.
Event Date: Sep 5, 2023
VPRI Unit: SPARC

NSERC offers a series of pre-recorded videos and live Q&A sessions to assist the research community in completing an RTI application. NSERC ask that you please view the pre-recorded videos prior to attending a live Q&A session as the material presented in the videos will not be repeated. 

Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) - Sumission of an application

Tuesday, September 5th, 2023 @ 10-11 a.m. PT: Live Q&A Session
Event Date: Sep 28, 2023
VPRI Unit: SPARC

NSERC offers a series of pre-recorded videos and live Q&A sessions to assist the research community in completing an RTI application. NSERC ask that you please view the pre-recorded videos prior to attending a live Q&A session as the material presented in the videos will not be repeated. 

Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) - Sumission of an application

Tuesday, September 5th, 2023 @ 10-11 a.m. PT: Live Q&A Session
Event Date: Sep 20, 2023
VPRI Unit: SPARC

Applicants are invited to submit their Insight Grant materials (both individual modules and full proposals are accepted) for review by members of the SPARC team by or before Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 12pm.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Funding of $10.3 million awarded to UBC-led projects through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's Partnership Grants, Partnership Development Grants and Insight Grants programs.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

A total of 139 programs and projects led by UBC researchers were awarded funding through the 2023 NSERC Disocvery research grants competition.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

This contribution, through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF), will help universities more competitively recruit and retain outstanding researchers by helping acquire the state-of-the-art labs, equipment and facilities they need to make discoveries that will have an impact on Canadians.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Funding of $600,000 through NSERC PromoScience Program supports project led by Dr. Sheryl Staub-French
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Twelve doctoral students at UBC have received Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships, and six postdoctoral fellows have received Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships. Together, the awards total more than $500K for UBC researchers.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

The Honourable Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages, on behalf of the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced an investment of close to $134 million to support 157 new and renewed Canada Research Chairs at 35 Canadian research institutions. The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), a program partner, will invest close to $5 million to support 22 of...

Event Date: Nov 8, 2023
VPRI Unit: SPARC

This is a collaborative funding opportunity in which groups of academic researchers must partner with (at least one of) government, private sector organizations, and/or not-for-profit organizations on research that will initiate or accelerate the development of transformative innovations, practices, technologies, products, land uses and inputs that will lead to a sustainable, profitable and resilient agriculture and agri-food sector in the uncertain climate and net-zero economy of the...

Event Date: Nov 1, 2023
VPRI Unit: SPARC

Review

SPARC staff will provide comprehensive reviews of full applications, which will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis as capacity allows. To register, please send your Notification of Intent to Apply to Mark Phillipo by Friday, September 15. The review period will begin Monday, September 18 and will end Wednesday, October 25. We are happy to accommodate our review based on your schedule, so please let us know when you would like a review and we will plan...

Event Date: Nov 9, 2023
VPRI Unit: SPARC

This is a collaborative funding opportunity in which university researchers must partner with (at least one of) government, private sector organizations, and/or not-for-profit organizations to develop new tools, methods and models, and to facilitate the uptake of new knowledge to support sustainable and responsible development of Canada’s critical minerals sector.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

The Government of BC is supporting UBC research with more than $4.7 million through the BC Knowledge Development Fund (BCKDF).
Event Date: Aug 11, 2023
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

UBC ARC is excited to announce a significant upgrade to the Sockeye job scheduling system. On October 31, 2023, Sockeye will transition from OpenPBS to Slurm, an industry-standard job scheduler and workload manager. 

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