Event Date: Feb 24, 2020
VPRI Unit: SPARC
SPARC is hosting Test Your Concept (TYC) panels for researchers interested in submitting applications to the 2020 New Frontiers in Research Fund Transformation Competition.
VPRI Unit: Research Ethics
Beginning 2020, the CREB will focus on re-review of applications that were approved prior to 2005. An ethics re-review to ensure the study meets current ethical requirements, will be undertaken and communicated individually with each PI and primary contact on the study.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Reiner Kruecken (TRIUMF/UBC Physics & Astronomy) has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Ian Williams, an assistant professor in the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing program, has been named the winner of the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his debut novel Reproduction.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Read a summary of the responses to the VPRI survey to evaluate the range of services offered to meet the needs of the research community
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Six Canadian medical heroes are inducted annually to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. Their work may be a single meritorious contribution or a lifetime of superior accomplishments. Pioneers in their field, they are role models of excellence in health in Canada and the world.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Alix Ohlin & Ian Williams joined by alumnus Megan Gail Coles on shortlist of six finalists.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Three UBC faculty members have been announced as Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. The 2019 induction ceremony was held in Ottawa on September 19, 2019.
citations courtesy of CAHS
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
UBC researchers in all disciplines are invited to apply to access new advanced research computing infrastructure, UBC ARC Sockeye. The application deadline is October 14.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Seven UBC faculty named as Fellows and two named Members of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Faculty authors are invited to apply for a new UBC Scholarly Publication Fund, to assist with the costs of book or journal publishing in Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-aligned fields. The submission deadline for the first funding competition is October 15.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
UBC Research Excellence Cluster, BCREGMED hosting two events open to all students, staff and faculty.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
UBC Assistant Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology has been named as one of fourteen inspiring early-career researchers.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Research will combine new textile technologies and comfort testing to provide lighter, safer protective gear
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and Minister announced $9,603,463 in Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD) funding to support four UBC projects that provide testing grounds to commercialize new technologies:
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have been awarded $24.8m in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant program.
The CIHR Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. It supports projects or programs of research proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups...
VPRI Unit: Research Ethics
The Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research has launched the third revision of the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2).
The TCPS 2 is a joint policy of Canada’s three federal research agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), or "the Agencies."
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Today, Thursday August 15, 2019, the University of British Columbia was announced as one of the 17 institutions selected to participate in the Dimensions: equity, diversity and inclusion Canada pilot program (Dimensions). The announcement was made by the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport and the Honourable Bill Morneau, Minister of Finance at Ryerson University.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Funding to support 31 infrastructure projects at UBC.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Six projects led or co-led by UBC researchers receive funding
Event Date: Aug 13, 2021
VPRI Unit: SPARC
The following survey seeks to assess the appropriateness and effectiveness of the PDFO-SPARC Internal Review Training Program. The goal is to assess the value of the training program and make a recommendation on whether this initiative should be offered again in future years. Please note that the feedback provided is anonymous, and that the results of the survey will be amalgamated and shared with VPRI leadership for consideration.