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Drs. Warren Cardinal-McTeague, Wenying Liu, Amori Mikami, Selena Sagan and Corinna Schindler announced as new chairholders. Drs. Marie Auger-Méthé, Luke Bergmann, Liam Brunham and Annie Ciernia are renewed chairholders.
STEM supports for Underrepresented Youth: Teacher, Family and Community Connecting is being led by Dr. Jennifer Jakobi in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at UBC Okanagan.
A total of 157 new programs and projects led by UBC researchers were awarded funding through the 2024 NSERC Discovery Research Program competition.
Fifteen UBC-led projects awarded almost $10 million through New Frontiers in Research Fund's 2023 International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, and 2023 Exploration competition.
Awards of $1.7 milion to UBC-led projects to support the development of partnerships or the design and testing of new partnership approaches
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VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
ARC will be upgrading the Sockeye System’s operating system beginning Wednesday, June 26 2024. A scheduled three-day outage has been planned to facilitate the necessary work for this extensive upgrade.
Dr. Sally Otto—a theoretical biologist focused on fundamental questions of population genetics and evolution—has been elected to the Fellowship of the United Kingdom’s Royal Society.
Drs. Sepideh Pakpour and Peter Zandstra to lead NSERC CREATE that will facilitate the transition of new researchers from trainees to productive employees in the Canadian workforce while tackling crucial science and engineering challenges.
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
Enhance your skills in high-performance computing to support your research. These workshops are suitable for those who are new to advanced research computing as well as those who have previously accessed ARC’s compute and storage platforms. The annual ARC Summer School is now open for…
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