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The PhDs Go Public Research Talk Series returns with five dynamic events, where doctoral students tell their community-engaged research stories in just under seven minutes. First event January 26.

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UBC’s Research Ethics Boards recently clarified their adherence to the Tri-Council Policy Statement on exclusion of individuals from research participation based on language.  UBC’s REBs prohibit the exclusion of non-English speaking individuals from research unless there is sufficient justification for the exclusion. Selection of research participants must be fair and equitable and based on the Tri-Council Policy Statement’s Principle of Justice.

VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2017Location: Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre, Jack Poole Hall ( 2nd Floor), 6163 University Blvd. 

Presented by UBC Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in partnership with alumni UBC

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Date: Wednesday, Feb 01 - Friday, Feb. 03, 2017Location: SFU Vancouver, Habour Centre

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Listen to a series of engaging interviews featuring our 2020/21 University Killam Professors

Watch a recording of the public event: Research horizons: What now, what next?

 

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Join UBC Language Sciences for Language Science Talks: a speaker series featuring prominent language sciences researchers from around the world. 

VPRI Unit: Research Ethics

The BC Ethics Harmonization Initiative has made considerable progress towards achieving its intended outcomes.  See details in the Final Evaluation Report.

VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Date: 10am-11.30am, Thursday, February 2nd, 2017Location: Room 102, Michael Smith Labs 

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Date: Monday, December 12, 2016 ( 9am - 12.30pm PST)Location: IRMACS Presentation Studio (ASB 10900), Simon Fraser University, Burnaby /// Online 

Public health and Agri-food labs around the world are embracing the use of microbial genome sequencing to improve infectious disease surveillance and outbreak investigations. This technology requires new computational methods to translate this “big data” into meaningful information for the front lines in infectious disease response.

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Fourteen UBC researchers were included among 203 new and renewed Canada Research Chairs announced by the Government of Canada.

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The Canada Research Chair program helps attract and retain top researchers across the country. Today’s announcement will support 4 new chairs at UBC and will continue to support 10 renewed chairs. There are 187 chairs at the university.

VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Date: Thursday, December 8, 2016 ( 14:00 to 14.30 PST) Where: Online 

Our next online Office Hours session will focus on recent training sessions on advanced research computing tools and services available to researchers in bioinformatics, genomics, and health sciences. We're bringing back our session presenters for a 30-minute follow up Q&A:

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Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 6pmLocation: UBC Robson Square, C300 - 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC 

Join representatives from Boeing, Microsoft, Visier and Vancouver Coastal Health for the launch of UBC’s Master of Data Science program. Hosted by UBC Science, a panel of experts will discuss challenges and opportunities for careers in data science, and how research groups, corporations and training programs can collectively build the province’s capacity in DS. The panel will...

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VanBUG (Vancouver Bioinformatics Users Group) is an association of researchers, other professionals and students in the BC Lower Mainland who have an interest in the field of bioinformatics. VanBUG meets on the second Thursday of every month from September through April. Research presentations by bioinformatics leaders, students and industry representatives are followed by networking over pizza and refreshments.

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VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Date: November 24, 2016 -  10-11am PST  //  11am-12pm MST  //  12-1pm CSTLocation: Online 

Dear WestGrid Community,

As part of our ongoing initiative to keep users regularly informed and engaged, WestGrid is hosting our fourth Community Town Hall session on Thursday, November 24.

WestGrid's management team and support staff will share the latest updates on:

* the migration of users and data from Silo, Jasper and Hungabee

* RAC and allocatable systems for...

VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing

Date: Nov. 24th, 2016 from 2pm-3pm  Location: Neville Scarfe Building 310, 2125 Main Mall 

You are invited to a Research Data Management Session presented by members of the UBC ARC team - Eugene Barsky (Research Data Librarian), Kaitlyn Gutteridge (Research Data Privacy and Security Officer) and Megan Meredith-Lobay (Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Analyst).

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Faculty of Science professor wins the most prestigious prize given by the Oceanographic Institute.

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