VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
The VPRI has established the Research Facility Support Grants (RFSG) competition to provide funding for the operation, maintenance, replacement, repair or upgrade of equipment to support research.
This competition is open to faculty located at the UBC Vancouver campus and affiliated hospital sites. The RFSGs are one-year grants of up to $50,000 intended to enhance UBC research and training. Apply by October 1, 2021.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Funding also awarded through Canada Foundation for Innovation to support newly appointed UBC CRC.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
UBC alumnus, Michael Audain, OC, OBC, one of B.C.’s most ardent champions of the visual arts has donated $3 million to UBC to create the Audain Chair in Historical Indigenous Art.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
49 projects led by UBC researchers supported as part of $91M national investment.
Event Date: Jun 29, 0000
VPRI Unit: Research Ethics
Based on the findings of a specially convened task force, UBC Vancouver and Okanagan Behavioural Research Ethics Boards have updated their review processes to allow for the limited resumption of on- and off-campus in-person behavioural research. The health and safety of the UBC and broader community continues to be our first priority.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Twenty-one doctoral students at UBC have received a Vanier Canada Graduate Fellowship, and three postdoctoral fellows have received a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Funding supports 19 UBC-led projects in drug research, global health, obstetrics, medical imaging, public health, and Indigenous health.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Funding awarded through NSERC's Discovery Grants competitions.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Amanda Vincent becomes first marine conservationist to win Indianapolis Prize.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
UBC researchers lead three projects supported by SSHRC Partnership Grants and a further six projects through SSHRC Partnership Development Grants.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Funding supports 20 UBC-led projects that bring disciplines together in nontraditional ways to explore new research directions.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
UBC is embarking on a search for a new Associate Vice-President, Research & Innovation to succeed Professor Helen Burt who completes her term in early 2021.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Event Date: Jun 10, 2020
VPRI Unit: Sequencing and Bioinformatics Consortium
As we look towards a phased resumption of on-campus research activities, we appreciate that many of you are actively planning your projects and experiments.
We are pleased to now offer virtual office hours to answer questions about sequencing methods, project planning or if you would like to understand mnore about UBC sequencing resources and how they can be integrated into your research. These virtual office hours provide direct online access to our technical experts. Office...
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
VPRI Unit: Research Ethics
Are you conducting health-related research and want to recruit BC residents?
REACH BC is an online provincial platform that connects British Columbians with health research opportunities.
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
Presenter: Ken Bigelow, Systems Administrator with the Advanced Research Computing group at UBC
Topic: Sole Stacking – Accessing the Compute Canada software stack outside of traditional HPC
Time: May 19, 2020 09:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Nicholas Coops receives Marcus Wallenberg Prize with collaborators Richard Waring (Oregon State University) and Joseph Landsberg (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia) for work to understand forests’ response to climate change such as global warming, insect infestations and forest fires.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Lukas Chrostowski and Diane Srivastava lead projects in in Quantum Computing and The Living Data Project
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
The UBC Library Research Commons has launched Geodisy, an open-source tool that allows users to search online for Canadian research data through map-based discovery.
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
UBC IT has announced changes to existing SPSS and NViVo licensing to accommodate a changing work environment as a result of recent events. Please see below for more details on the enhanced software offerings: