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A new ‘EDI in Research’ course is now available through UBC Workplace Learning. This new online course is specifically developed for faculty, staff and students involved in research, to support the learning and implementation of appropriate equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI)…
UBC Vancouver is embarking on a search for a new Associate Vice-President, Research & Innovation to succeed Dr. Matthew Evenden who completes his term later this fall.The successful candidate will join Dr. Rachel Fernandez, Associate Vice-President, Research & Innovation, and the incoming…
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There are recent updates to the process of ordering controlled substances from CDMV for research purposes with a Health Canada Exemption.Key updates:CDMV address change: Ensure the updated CDMV address is included on your Health Canada exemption application.Payment method: CDMV now accepts credit…
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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 Bergman
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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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.
We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.