VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and advance the public good
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
The Rideau Hall Foundation (RHF) today announced the recipients of the seventh annual Governor General’s Innovation Awards (GGIA). Among the awardees was the team responsible for developing the lipid nanoparticles that delivered mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
UBC is investing over $500,000 to support partnerships that will benefit communities and advance collaborative research, teaching, and learning across the province.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Dr. Bakker's fellowship awarded under the Geography & Environmental Studies category
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
UBC Medicine professor Dr. Pieter Cullis has been named a 2022 Canada Gairdner International Award laureate for his pioneering work developing the lipid nanoparticle delivery technology that enables mRNA therapeutics such as the highly effective COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Funding supports 12 UBC-led projects through the 2021 Exploration and Special Call Competitions
Event Date: Apr 1, 2022
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
UBC Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is launching two new services that support UBC researchers to access cloud computing and transfer research data with ease.
Event Date: Apr 21, 2022
VPRI Unit: SPARC
SPARC will be offering reviews of NFRF Special Call: Research for Postpandemic Recovery Notices of Intent (NOIs).
Researchers are invited to submit their 2500 character summary to SPARC for review between Monday, April 11 and Thursday April 21. Please submit via email to danica.kell@ubc.ca by or before Thursday, April 21st at 10am.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
UBC is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Faculty Research Awards.
Researchers at UBC and Carleton University received IDRC funding for their joint project, “Placement, Preservation and Perseverance: Afghan At-Risk Scholars, Activists and Students,” to help scholars and others who are fleeing the crisis in Afghanistan establish a new intellectual community in Canada.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
A total of 40 emerging and established Research Excellence Clusters led by researchers on the Vancouver campus will be supported in 2022/23. This total includes 27 awards made through the 2022/23 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters Competition (GCRC) and 13 clusters entering the second year of their current award.
Event Date: Mar 7, 2022
VPRI Unit: Research Ethics
A reminder will be posted closer to the dates.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
The 2022 University Killam Professors competition has launched and the UBC community is invited to consider faculty members who may be eligible for this distinction. The designation of University Killam Professor (UKP) recognizes faculty members who are extraordinary teachers and researchers, who are leaders in their academic fields, and who have received national and international recognition and prestige. It is the highest honour that the university confers on a faculty member. ...
Event Date: Apr 4, 2022
VPRI Unit: SPARC
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and Impact Canada have announced Round Three of their Housing Supply Challenge, “The Northern Access Round: Supply Chain Solutions for Northern and Remote Housing.” In Round 3, the CMHC is looking to fund solutions that address barriers in the supply chain that reduce the time, cost, and risk associated with accessing all the materials and resources needed to build, operate and maintain housing in northern and remote regions.” Applications are...
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
February 22, 2022
UBC researchers were awarded almost $2 million in funding for 16 projects from the Canada Foundation for Innovation's (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF).
Applications are invited from leading scholars across career stages from UBC and UBCO to the 2022-23 Wall Scholars Catalyst Program. Successful scholars will participate in regular sessions at the Institute focusing on the broad theme of Climate and Nature Emergency. Application Deadline: Friday, April 29, 2022
Event Date: Feb 11, 2022
VPRI Unit: Research Ethics
As a signatory of the World Health Organization’s Joint Statement on Public Disclosure of Results from Clinical Trials, CIHR is committed to advancing open science, research excellence, and greater transparency in clinical trials. To that end, CIHR has introduced new requirements for the registration and public disclosure of the results of clinical trials.
Event Date: Feb 9, 2022
VPRI Unit: Research Ethics
The TCPS CORE-2022 tutorial has been updated and can be accessed from https://tcps2core.ca/welcome. Changes in this version include integration into the CORE tutorial of “Module A9 – Research Involving Indigenous Peoples.”
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
The UBC Board of Governors has approved the reappointment of Dr. Gail Murphy as Vice-President, Research & Innovation.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Forty-eight UBC-led Project Grants were awarded $34.7 million, and a further 13 UBC-led projects were awarded priority announcement grants totaling $1.3 million