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Event Date: Jun 2, 2022
VPRI Unit: Research Ethics

In order to successfully upgrade the RISe system to Version 10, RISe will be inaccessible from 5pm  on Friday, June 17 until 5am on Monday, June 20.

There will be no user access during this time.

Please contact your ethics board if you have any concerns about your application.

If you have any questions about the RISe outage, please contact the RISe support desk staff at https://www.rise.ubc.ca/content/contact-us.

Thank you for your patience and understanding...

Event Date: Sep 1, 2022
VPRI Unit: SPARC
Event Date: May 27, 2022
VPRI Unit: Animal Care and Use Program

The current economic conditions with escalating prices of goods and services continue to present challenges for many industries, including the animal-science based research community.
Event Date: Jul 19, 2022
VPRI Unit: SPARC

SSHRC IG Grant Writing Bootcamps

In these hands-on workshops over zoom, open to both new and re-applicants, participants will be guided through “writing prompt” exercises on the Summary, Knowledge Mobilization Plan, Expected Outcomes Summary, and Budget Justification modules, followed by dedicated writing time for each.  These sessions are co-facilitated by Danica Kell, Research Development Officer at SPARC, and Brianna Wells, Research Development Officer at ORS Okanagan, who will...

Event Date: Jul 20, 2022
VPRI Unit: SPARC

SSHRC IG Grant Writing Bootcamps

In these hands-on workshops over zoom, open to both new and re-applicants, participants will be guided through “writing prompt” exercises on the Summary, Knowledge Mobilization Plan, Expected Outcomes Summary, and Budget Justification modules, followed by dedicated writing time for each.  These sessions are co-facilitated by Danica Kell, Research Development Officer at SPARC, and Brianna Wells, Research Development Officer at ORS Okanagan, who will...

Event Date: Jul 21, 2022
VPRI Unit: SPARC

SSHRC IG Grant Writing Bootcamps

In these hands-on workshops over zoom, open to both new and re-applicants, participants will be guided through “writing prompt” exercises on the Summary, Knowledge Mobilization Plan, Expected Outcomes Summary, and Budget Justification modules, followed by dedicated writing time for each.  These sessions are co-facilitated by Danica Kell, Research Development Officer at SPARC, and Brianna Wells, Research Development Officer at ORS Okanagan, who will...

Event Date: Aug 25, 2022
VPRI Unit: SPARC

SSHRC IG Grant Writing Bootcamps

In these hands-on workshops over zoom, open to both new and re-applicants, participants will be guided through “writing prompt” exercises on the Summary, Knowledge Mobilization Plan, Expected Outcomes Summary, and Budget Justification modules, followed by dedicated writing time for each.  These sessions are co-facilitated by Danica Kell, Research Development Officer at SPARC, and Brianna Wells, Research Development Officer at ORS Okanagan, who will...

VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

May 12, 2022

Canada’s Stem Cell Network (SCN) announced funding of $19.5 million for 32 stem cell and regenerative medicine research projects and clinical trials across Canada.

UBC researchers are leading seven projects awarded a total of $2.85 million from the Stem Cell Network. A further three projects involving UBC co-investigators and collaborators were awarded a combined $6.3 million.
Event Date: Jun 9, 2022
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Virtual environments are tools that offer researchers the ability to create separate, isolated software environments in a system, to install software with its own dependencies.  Virtual environments are useful on HPC systems when specific software or software packages are needed, and not readily available as a pre-installed module.

In this workshop, we will introduce virtual environments, discuss use cases, and explain how to use tools such as Conda and Virtualenv as part of...

VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Today, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, and the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Health, are announcing an investment of $19.2 million to support 46 community-based and community-led research partnerships through the Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Three UBC teams were among 18 projects awarded up to $50,000 each to develop activities at the local, regional and/​or national level that advance awareness, understanding, development and adoption of research data management tools, best practices and resources in Canada. 
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

UBC's Alexander T. Duncan and Dr. Amy Parent announced as members.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and advance the public good
Event Date: May 2, 2022
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

The Rideau Hall Foundation (RHF) today announced the recipients of the seventh annual Governor General’s Innovation Awards (GGIA). Among the awardees was the team responsible for developing the lipid nanoparticles that delivered mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

UBC is investing over $500,000 to support partnerships that will benefit communities and advance collaborative research, teaching, and learning across the province.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Dr. Bakker's fellowship awarded under the Geography & Environmental Studies category
Event Date: Apr 26, 2022
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Overview

Singularity is an open-source platform that allows researchers to package and use software on high performance computing clusters such as UBC ARC Sockeye.  To better understand how to use Singularity containers on UBC ARC Sockeye, we are hosting this workshop which will provide attendees with an overview of Singularity, as well as the basic tools to integrate Singularity into their research workflow.

Date: April 26, 1-3pm PTLocation: Zoom virtual session
VPRI Unit: RISe

As of April 9, 2022 the RISe system will have an invoice feature available for Industry-sponsored studies reviewed at: UBC Clinical Research Ethics Board (CREB), Providence Health Care REB and BC Children's and Women's REB.  Please see video here for more information.

If you have questions related to RISe invoice, please contact your REB or reply to the Invoice-email sent to the Principal Investigator and Primary Contact of the study.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

UBC Medicine professor Dr. Pieter Cullis has been named a 2022 Canada Gairdner International Award laureate for his pioneering work developing the lipid nanoparticle delivery technology that enables mRNA therapeutics such as the highly effective COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.

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