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  1. July 10, 2019

    Introduction to Aseptic Techniques: Hands-on lab price change

    VPRI Unit: Animal Care and Use Program

      Starting in January 2019, the ACS Introduction to Aseptic Techniques in Rodent Surgery hands-on lab portion of the course was extended to a full day in order to give students a more expanded “real world” learning experience. The course now has more hands on time with…

  2. June 26, 2019

    Tri-Agency Renewal Initiative Update (August 2019)

    VPRI Unit: Research Finance

    UBC is one of twelve institutions engaging in the pilot phase of the Renewal of the Tri-Agency Financial Administration Guide (TAFAG) initiative, which started on December 1, 2018. This 1-hour session will explain how the new Tri-Agency ‘principles-based’ guide will streamline and simplify the…

  3. June 24, 2019

    Welcome Advanced Research Computing Summer School participants!

    VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

    The 3rd Annual Research Computing Summer School co-hosted by UBC Advanced Research Computing (ARC) and WestGrid kicks off today. We can’t wait to welcome everyone to UBC!  This year’s event will mark the largest Summer School on record with more than 230 participants…

First Nations land acknowledegement

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.



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