2019 PURE Competition

The offices of the Provost and Vice-President Academic, the Vice-President Research and Innovation, and the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation (UBC Okanagan) are pleased to have supported the first funding recipients of the Program for Undergraduate Research Experience (PURE) in 2019. 

2019 Competition Results

The January 2019 funding call for PURE sought innovative pilot projects that would broaden access to, and enhance undergraduate research experiences, in response to this key priority identified in UBC’s new strategic plan (Strategy 8 in Shaping UBC’s Next Century).

A steering committee across both campuses, composed of students, staff and faculty members and representatives of the Vice-President, Students; Vice-President, Academic and Vice-President, Research & Innovation offices developed the PURE call for proposals and received a total of 95 full applications from UBC’s two campuses.

Seventeen of these projects were funded, representing a 17.9% success rate and a total funding allocation of $1.3 million over two years, including $1M in strategic funds.  A summary of these projects is below.

The principal applicants of the funded projects included twelve faculty members, three staff members and two undergraduate students. Eight projects are led by women and nine are led by men. 

The projects were sponsored by a range of faculties, units and portfolios including Applied Science, Arts, Education, Forestry, Medicine, UBC Sauder, Science, Health and Social Development, CTLT, Materials and Manufacturing Research Institute, First Nations House of Learning, MOA, VP External and AVP International.  Fifteen of the 17 funded projects received two-year funding awards.

Funded Projects

2019 Competition Details

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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