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VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Congratulations to UBC winners Dr. Steven Rogak and Dr. Jonathan Holzman and their industry partners Hydra Energy and ExcelSense Technology.

VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Date: Thursday, February 09 - 10.00-11.00am PSTLocation: Online. Please click here to register. 

Speaker: Dr. Megan Meredith-Lobay Scientific Analyst, Digital Humanities and Social Sciences University of British Columbia

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Synergy Award for Innovation goes to Dr. Guy Dumont for his work with UBC spin-offf company Lionsgate Technologies. Gilles Brassard Doctoral Prize for Interdisciplinary Research goes to Amir Abdi.

VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Date: Tuesday, Feb. 07, 2017Location: Online - Please register here. 

Speaker: Chris Fjell, Health Research Data Analyst, University of British Columbia 

Description: 

REDCap is a free, secure, web-based application designed to support data capture for research studies. This online session will provide an introductory overview of:

VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

 

Digital Storytelling using Twine February 6, 2017 1:30pm-4:30pm SFU Vancouver (Harbour Centre, 1520)Registration: http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/dh/31927

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UBC is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016 Faculty Research Awards. Winners were selected by UBC’s Faculty Research Award Committee, which spans arts and humanities, applied science, science, and medicine. 

VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Date: Friday, January 27 (11.00am-12.00pm PST)Location: Online. Please click here to register. 

As part of our ongoing initiative to keep our users regularly informed and engaged, WestGrid is hosting a Community Town Hall session on Friday, January 27.

WestGrid's management team and support staff will share the latest updates on:

VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Date: Tuesday, January 24, 10.00-11.00am PSTLocation: Online - Please click here to register. 

Speaker: Jamie Rosner Life Sciences Analyst, Advanced Research Computing The University of British Columbia

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The PhDs Go Public Research Talk Series returns with five dynamic events, where doctoral students tell their community-engaged research stories in just under seven minutes. First event January 26.

VPRI Unit: Research Ethics

UBC’s Research Ethics Boards recently clarified their adherence to the Tri-Council Policy Statement on exclusion of individuals from research participation based on language.  UBC’s REBs prohibit the exclusion of non-English speaking individuals from research unless there is sufficient justification for the exclusion. Selection of research participants must be fair and equitable and based on the Tri-Council Policy Statement’s Principle of Justice.

VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2017Location: Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre, Jack Poole Hall ( 2nd Floor), 6163 University Blvd. 

Presented by UBC Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in partnership with alumni UBC

VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Date: Wednesday, Feb 01 - Friday, Feb. 03, 2017Location: SFU Vancouver, Habour Centre

VPRI Unit: Research Ethics

The BC Ethics Harmonization Initiative has made considerable progress towards achieving its intended outcomes.  See details in the Final Evaluation Report.

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Listen to a series of engaging interviews featuring our 2020/21 University Killam Professors

Watch a recording of the public event: Research horizons: What now, what next?

 

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Join UBC Language Sciences for Language Science Talks: a speaker series featuring prominent language sciences researchers from around the world. 

VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Date: 10am-11.30am, Thursday, February 2nd, 2017Location: Room 102, Michael Smith Labs 

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VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Date: Monday, December 12, 2016 ( 9am - 12.30pm PST)Location: IRMACS Presentation Studio (ASB 10900), Simon Fraser University, Burnaby /// Online 

Public health and Agri-food labs around the world are embracing the use of microbial genome sequencing to improve infectious disease surveillance and outbreak investigations. This technology requires new computational methods to translate this “big data” into meaningful information for the front lines in infectious disease response.

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VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office

Fourteen UBC researchers were included among 203 new and renewed Canada Research Chairs announced by the Government of Canada.

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The Canada Research Chair program helps attract and retain top researchers across the country. Today’s announcement will support 4 new chairs at UBC and will continue to support 10 renewed chairs. There are 187 chairs at the university.

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