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The three UBC-led programs were awarded a combined $4.95 million through NSERC to lead training initiatives for emerging scientists and engineers.
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UBC researchers are leading five funded projects awarded a total of $125,000 to build international collaborations.
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Awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Fellowship is a prestigious honour recognizing career achievement and exceptional promise.
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UBC Advanced Research Computing (ARC), working closely with the Learning Technology Innovation Centre (LTIC), is excited to announce the launch of a multi-year, multi-phase investment to modernize the university's digital research infrastructure. This…
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Dr. Zandstra will succeed Dr. Gail Murphy in the Vice-President role, starting June 1, 2026.
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The Amazon Research Awards (ARA) Spring 2026 Call for Proposals is now open. The ARA program provides unrestricted cash awards and AWS credits to support researchers advancing cutting-edge work across a variety of disciplines, including AI for Information Security, Agentic AI, and Robotics. …
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The ARC Access Management Portal will be unavailable on April 14, 2026 from 9:00 am to 1:00 p.m. (PDT) due to planned work related to the UBC IT EduCloud migration. During this outage, users will be unable to: Submit new Sockeye or Chinook applications Update user access and…
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Research Finance has released a new podcast episode (Season 3, Episode 3.6) that reviews the definition of hospitality costs, and places them in the Tri-Agency context to go over what the institutional and Tri-Agency requirements are for submitting expense claims related to hospitality.CWL is…
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New facilities support nanofabrication, archaeology, advanced spectroscopy and imaging, molecular and advanced pathology, and cytometry.
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Seventeen new clusters among the twenty-six funded through the 2026/27 GCRC competition
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