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  1. August 28, 2017

    Open Scholarship Day and Open Science Framework (OSF)

    VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

    Date: Tuesday, September 29th, 2017 (9am-4pm) Location: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Lillooet Room 301  “Open scholarship, which encompasses open access, open data, open educational resources, and all other forms of openness in the scholarly and research environment, is…

  2. March 8, 2017

    ARC - SBC DRAGEN Collaboration

    VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

    The SBC (and The Pharm Sci Seq Centre which preceded it) has, for the past 3 years, provided client-first, personalized sequencing services to UBC researchers, as well as their collaborators across Canada and Internationally. We recently completed sequencing several hundred exomes and in 2016 will…

  3. February 15, 2017

    New UBC Distinguished University Scholars

    UBC is pleased to announce eleven new Distinguished University Scholars. These awards recognize exceptional members of faculty who have distinguished themselves as scholars in research and/or teaching and learning.  

  4. February 26, 2016

    ARC Adds Data Security and Privacy Support

    VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

    UBC researchers with advanced research computing projects can now access consultation, advice, training and risk assessment relating to data security and privacy issues. Data security and privacy requirements can sometimes be a formidable barrier for researchers. Projects involving protected…

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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