Research Community News

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

Search keywords and filter the announcements below, and visit our listing of events and upcoming deadlines for funding and awards. 

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: Advanced Research Computing

UBC Advanced Research Computing will provide expedited support for the acquisition and use of HPC resources, including public cloud, for research studies that meet the following criteria:
VPRI Unit: Research Ethics

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VPRI Unit: Sequencing and Bioinformatics Consortium

As of March 16, the Sequencing and Bioinformatics Consortium is currently experiencing processing delays. All efforts are being made to process samples in a timely fashion, but impacts on specific services are outlined below. Please note that all sample drop-offs and collections MUST be arranged in advance with sequencing.centre@ubc.ca.

VPRI Unit: Office of Research Services (news)

On March 6, 2020, Tri-Agency issued the following update regarding travel cancellations due to COVID-19-related issues: 
VPRI Unit: Research Ethics

The Office of Research Ethics invites graduate students & faculty to DROP-IN to the Research Commons

Bring your questions to Room 495 | Koerner Library Every Wednesday from 8:30 am – 4 pm **PLEASE NOTE THAT DROP-IN SESSIONS ARE CURRENTLY POSTPONED. WE WILL POST ON THIS PAGE WHEN THEY RESUME**

The Research Commons in the Koerner Library provides a welcoming space for projects and presentations, a Digital Scholarship Lab, plus consultations and workshops for UBC...

VPRI Unit: Research Ethics

The 2020 edition of the International Compilation of Human Research Standards has been released. The Compilation is a listing of over 1,000 laws, regulations, and guidelines on human subjects protections in 133 countries and from many international organizations.

Most of the listings provide hyperlinks to the source document. These laws, regulations, and guidelines are classified into nine categories:
Event Date: Mar 26, 2020
VPRI Unit: SPARC

*NOTE* This event has been canceled.

The CIHR Institute of Infection and Immunity (CIHR-III) is organizing a series of Engagement Workshops as part of our community stakeholder engagement plan to identify the new strategic priorities for III. The next Engagement Workshop is being held in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia on March 26th, 2020.
VPRI Unit: Sequencing and Bioinformatics Consortium

Have a sequencing or bioinformatics project, but don’t know where to start? Need to generate sequence data for a pilot study or grant application? Join us at our monthly drop-in sessions. Meet with the SBC team and find out how we can help you with your sequencing and bioinformatics projects.
Event Date: Feb 14, 2020
VPRI Unit: SPARC

UBC SPARC and Innovation Partnerships will host a speaker series focused on the development of research partnerships between academia and industry. Both academic and industrial partners will discuss their experiences in developing academia-industry relationships, considerations on formulating value proposition and engagement approach to partner(s), insights on securing support from funding agencies (e.g. NSERC) and partner organizations, and avenues to longer-term sustainability of the...

VPRI Unit: Office of Research Services (news)

Events and information related to ORS and to major funding agencies are listed below.

Please regularly check the information posted below for updates related to funding opportunities and application procedures. For detailed information on current opportunities, visit the ORS Funding Opportunities page.
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Westgrid will be teaching monthly workshops at UBC Research Commons starting February 2020. Please find more information about the first three workshops below: 

Feb-07 Advanced Unix Shell 

Mar-13 Advanced GitHub 

Apr-08 Intro to Cloud Computing 
VPRI Unit: Office of Research Services (news)

The next RISe/ORS drop-in session will be held on Thursday, February 27 from 2:30pm - 4:00pm in Room 102 - 6190 Agronomy Road.

Feel free to drop by with any questions or inquiries.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

CIHR funding supports 58 projects at UBC and afffiliated health authority research centres.
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

 

UBC has further expanded its support of the research community with an additional capital investment of $10.6 million in advanced research computing infrastructure.

This investment increases UBC’s capacity to support UBC researchers in all disciplines to meet immediate needs surrounding data storage and computing power through UBC ARC Sockeye. Sockeye was initially established through a capital investment of $7.9 million investment in 2018, and welcomed its first users in...

Event Date: Feb 28, 2020
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Event Date: Feb 25, 2020
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