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  1. January 28, 2019

    Call for Proposals: CANHEIT-ARC 2019 (Research and IT)

    VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

    The CANHEIT-ARC 2019 conference, Canada’s premier conference for higher education IT leaders and advanced research computing (ARC) experts, is seeking session proposals in a range of topics in research and higher ed trends and technologies. The event is co-hosted this year by Compute…

  2. January 14, 2019

    BCNET Conference - Call for Speaking Proposals

    VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

    Due date for proposals: February 26th, 2019 BCNET is currently accepting speaking proposals for the BCNET 2019 conference in Vancouver from April 30th-May 19th, 2019. This is an excellect opportunity for speakers to grow professionally, share insights and engage with peers. All levels of staff…

  3. December 14, 2018

    Mosaic Vivarium system access restored - Dec. 14

    VPRI Unit: Animal Care and Use Program

    The Mosaic Vivarium team has completed the migration of application data from servers located in the United States to servers in Canada. Access to Mosaic has been restored for all users. This change updates the URL (web address) for accessing Mosaic. Please update your browser bookmarks to reflect…

  4. December 7, 2018

    Scheduled Mosaic Vivarium Outage - Dec. 13, 5pm - Dec. 14, 5am

    VPRI Unit: Animal Care and Use Program

    Mosaic Vivarium users will not have access to the application from December 13, 2018 5:00 p.m. until December 14, 2018 5:00 a.m. PST. This will affect all campus and remote users who need access to this system. During this time, all Mosaic data currently hosted in the United States will be…

  5. November 15, 2018

    2018 Pacific Northwest Data Curators (PNWDC) Meet-up

    VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

    When: Friday, November 30th, 2018  Where: SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver, BC  The Pacific Northwest Data Curators meet-up will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia on Friday, 30 November at the SFU Harbour Centre Campus Vancouver. Similar to previous years, it will be a day of…

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