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
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
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: 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: 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:
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
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: