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UBC chemist and chemical engineer Curtis P. Berlinguette has been awarded a 2016 NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship for his research on solar energy conversion technologies.
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Poul Sorensen, a Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Distinguished Scientist at the BC Cancer Agency, has been awarded the Robert L. Noble Prize by the Canadian Cancer Society for outstanding achievements in basic biomedical cancer research.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
UBC receives $27 million from federal government to support 18 new and 13 renewed chairs.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Registration is now open for these workshops that will bring together researchers from around the world to focus on three areas in which UBC is emerging as a potential global leader: Indigenous studies (February), water (March), and epigenetics (April).
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
February 23, 2016 - UBC's Vice-President Research & International and SPARC invite you to attend a Faculty Town Hall with SSHRC.
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UBC is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2015 Faculty Research Awards. Winners were selected by UBC’s Faculty Research Award Committee, which spans arts and humanities, applied science, science, and medicine. Congratulations to all recipients!
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This interactive workshop on February 25 introduces researchers to librarians and Digital Humanities specialists from UBC and Compute Canada, and introduces these professionals, in turn, to the range of scholars and projects occurring in Arts within the broad tent field of Digital Humanities.
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The workshop on Ethics and Pragmatism in Indigenous Research will be held on February 22-24. Registration is free and open to UBC faculty, students and staff.
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On January 25, Compute Canada and IRMACS are hosting a hands-on workshop exploring Apache Spark and the use of cluster computing resources.
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Dr. Sally Otto, a professor in the Department of Zoology and Director of the Biodiversity Research Centre was welcomed to the board of the Nature Trust of BC, dedicated to protecting BC’s natural diversity of plants and animals through the acquisition and management of critical habitats.
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UBC Land and Food Sytems Assistant Professor, Xiaonan Lu, recieves the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) Young Scientist Award.
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The UBC REBs gathered on October 21, 2015 for their annual ethics retreat. They were joined by the SFU REB as well.
The morning opened with an update from Susan Zimmerman of the Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research (SRCR):Current Issues & Initiatives-SRCR – Susan Zimmerman
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New speaker series presented by SPARC on funded research in social sciences and humanities begins October 22
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UBC is partnering with Genome BC, BC Cancer Agency and the Terry Fox Research Institute to present this free Gairdner Foundation symposium on November 17.
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Five UBC faculty members were welcomed as fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
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Dr. Montaner, Head of the UBC Division of AIDS and director of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE), is receiving the Royal Society of Canada's McLaughlin Medal, awarded for important research of sustained excellence in any branch of the medical sciences.
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See the following newsletter for the lastest from the UBC Behavioural Research Ethics Board (BREB). It includes application tips and reminders for student and faculty: What's New with the BREB.
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Seven UBC professors have been inducted into the Fellows of the RSC – the highest honour a scholar can achieve in the arts, humanities and sciences in Canada.
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The SPARC office is pleased to invite you to a new speaker series starting September 10, 2015
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Health researchers at the University of British Columbia have received a combined total of $73.6 million in grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to bolster cutting-edge medical research.