News + Announcements
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March 17, 2023
Nominations open for Sustainability Leadership Awards
Members of the UBC community are invited to recognize the leadership and outstanding achievements of those committed to reducing climate change, reversing biodiversity loss, transforming to circular economies, and creating more resilient communities, by nominating a peer, colleague, or inspiring…
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March 15, 2023
Dr. Pieter Cullis and Dr. Sally Otto named 2023 Killam Prize winners
Dr. Pieter Cullis, Faculty of Medicine, and Dr. Sally Otto, Faculty of Science, have each been awarded the 2023 Killam Prize, by the National Killam Program.
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March 9, 2023
Submit events for Celebrate Learning Week 2023
The 2023 Celebrate Learning Week (CLW) Call for Contributions has now opened. UBCV and UBCO will again collaboratively present this initiative from May 2–9, 2023, in in-person, online and multi-access formats. This year’s theme is the Power of Place in Teaching and Learning, and we invite…
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March 7, 2023
Thirty-eight funded Research Excellence Clusters in 2023/24
A total of 38 emerging and established Research Excellence Clusters led by researchers on the Vancouver campus will be supported in 2023/24. This total includes 23 awards made through the 2023/24 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters Competition (GCRC) and 15 clusters entering the second year…
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March 2, 2023
Announcing the 2023/24 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) projects
Through the 2023/24 TLEF, $2.07-million in funding will support 46 new and returning TLEF projects.
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March 2, 2023
2023 Program for Open Scholarship and Education registration open
Are you interested in making knowledge more distributed, transparent and accessible? The Program for Open Scholarship and Education is a three-month flexible and blended program jointly presented by the UBC Open Working Group, the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology and UBC Library. The…
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February 23, 2023
Call for proposals for the Black Faculty Cohort Hiring Initiative
Proposals are invited for UBC’s Black Faculty Cohort Hiring Initiative, which focuses on hiring a number of professors at the same time, either within or across departments, Faculties and/or across strategic research and teaching priority areas at the university. This is one of a…
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February 13, 2023
Workday Student: Curated resources for faculty and other course instructors
A new Workday Student resource hub has been developed for faculty and other course instructors at UBC. This hub provides details about the new student information system, relevant change impacts, and answers to frequently asked questions. Updates to this page will be…
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February 1, 2023
Dr. Dolph Schluter awarded Crafoord Prize in Biosciences
UBC evolutionary biologist Dr. Dolph Schluter has been awarded the Crafoord Prize in Biosciences.
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January 31, 2023
Dr. Rashid Sumaila named as 2022 AAAS Fellow
Dr. Rashid Sumaila has been elected to the newest class of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows.