Funding available to foster collaborations in research excellence
UBC is supporting our research community to establish new or expand upon existing research collaborations through the Collaborative Research Mobility Awards (CRMA) program. This renewed and expanded program is currently seeking applications to support partnerships between our campuses, or with researchers at the University of Washington or UCLA. The CRMA began as a means to […]
Funding available to support research collaborations between Vancouver and the Okanagan
A message from Gail Murphy, Vice-President, Research and Innovation Faculty members from all disciplines are invited to apply to the UBC Collaborative Research Mobility Awards (UBC CRMA) program. These awards facilitate collaboration on timely research opportunities between UBC researchers in Vancouver and the Okanagan. Competitions will be held four times per year. The submission deadline […]
New advanced research computing infrastructure available to UBC researchers
A message from Gail Murphy, Vice-President, Research and Innovation, and Jennifer Burns, Chief Information Officer 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. Sockeye is a high-performance computing platform featuring 7,000 CPU cores, and more than 10 petabytes of […]
New funding available to faculty authors to assist with publishing costs
A message from Gail Murphy, Vice-President, Research and Innovation, and Andrew Szeri, Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver Faculty members who are 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 […]
Capital investment poised to transform big data research at UBC
In a laboratory in the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, researchers work to identify the consequences of genetic variations. To do so, they rely on computational methods and tools, such as sophisticated software, databases and algorithms, which require a powerful infrastructure. “The future of medicine lies in our ability to analyze vast amounts of patient […]