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Excelling in global rankings

Excelling in global rankings

Find out ‘Who’s contributing to cIRcle?’ at: circle.ubc.ca. UBC, cIRcle excel in global rankings For more information on the university and IR rankings, please see www.webometrics.info/top8000.asp and http://repositories.webometrics.info/top400_rep_inst.asp. The University of British Columbia and its institutional repository both feature prominently in a pair of global rankings. UBC is the top-ranked Canadian university – and 35th […]

Olympics-inspired research is here to stay

Olympics-inspired research is here to stay

Preserving the UBC 2010 Winter Games Legacy with cIRcle “The 2010 Winter Games may be over, but the excitement surrounding cIRcle’s 2010 Olympics and Paralympics Project is just beginning. The project, which began in earnest in October 2009, aims to showcase and preserve UBC’s intellectual output related to the Games via cIRcle, UBC’s Information Repository.” […]

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“Whatever works best for the athlete”

Read this M.A. thesis in cIRcle at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5235. UBC achievements at the Paralympic Games UBC Dentistry alumnus Jim Armstrong is part of Team Canada, which won the gold medal in Paralympic wheelchair curling. Sport sociology and PhD student Andrea Bundon was the guide for Courtney Knight, a visually-impaired cross-country skier.  Knight and Bundon, who is […]

‘[H]igh-caliber Canadian graduate students’

‘[H]igh-caliber Canadian graduate students’

Visit cIRcle at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2518 to read Milica Mandic’s thesis. UBC receives most Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements For more information about the award, visit: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Media-Media/NewsRelease-CommuniqueDePresse_eng.asp?ID=188. Nine UBC students were awarded Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements under the Canada Graduate Scholarships Program from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada — the most of […]

UBC’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities – Upcoming Event

Are you a UBC Undergraduate Student? Will you be attending the MURC event on Saturday March 6, 2010? If so, check out our cIRcle exhibit and information booth at the MURC event. See you there! MULTIDISCIPLINARY UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE (MURC) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Jubilee Room (4th floor) Saturday March 6, 2010 “MURC celebrates […]