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VPRI Unit: Research Finance
Intended audience: PI & Grant Manager Learn more about: TAGFA, EDI, and Use of Grant Funds Sub-granting funds to other institutions Form 300 Process for Year-End FY 2023 Available online resources for managing your grant funds Workshop full or can't make it to this session?…
VPRI Unit: Research Finance
Learn more about matters of timely interest and emerging topics Intended audience: Administrator & Finance manager Learn more about: TAGFA and UBC's Business Expense Rules FY 23 Form 300 timeline and process FY 23 Year-End Over-expenditure Clearance process US Fed audit…
February 6, 2023A total of 67 projects led by UBC researchers were awarded more than $30 million in combined funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant: Fall 2022 competition.UBC researchers are leading 32 projects awarded Project Grants totaling $26.9 million11…
On January 19, 2023 the Honourable Filomena Tassi, Minister of the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, on behalf of the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Health, announced a new investment to support one clinical trials consortium, seven training platforms, and 22…
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected Dr. Rashid Sumaila to the newest class of AAAS Fellows, among the most distinct honours within the global scientific community.
The University Killam Professorship recognizes exceptional teachers and researchers who are leaders in their fields, and who have received international recognition for their talents and achievements. It is the highest honour UBC can confer on a faculty member. The new University Killam Professors are: Nemy Banthia (Civil Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science), Dominic McIver Lopes (Philosophy, Faculty of Arts) and Natalie Strynadka (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine).
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
The Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance) seeks survey feedback to better understand how Canadian researchers would like to use cloud services (i.e., compute and storage) to inform the development of the National Cloud Strategy. Researchers and research staff from all disciplines…
UBC ranks second in Canada’s Top 50 Research Universities, 2022
VPRI Unit: Institutional Programs Office
January 12, 2023The Office of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation is pleased to announce the appointment of two UBC faculty members to the role of faculty research advisors. Faculty research advisors serve both campuses and provide strategic guidance, advice and leadership regarding…
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.