SPARC-Social Sciences and Humanities at UBC – Spring 2016
Are you part of a UBC academic unit or research network? Want to learn about grant research funding opportunities in your area? Need to deposit, share/disseminate and preserve your grant-funded research output at UBC? SPARC is pleased to share its upcoming Spring 2016 events and activities with UBC affiliated research institutes, centres and other organizations […]
Call for Submissions: GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award
Launched in 2012, the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award is a lottery-style $500 Award which showcases unique, exemplary non-thesis graduate work at UBC that is not captured anywhere else. This Award enables UBC Vancouver graduate students to expand and disseminate their research-focused, non-thesis work at UBC and beyond. The non-thesis graduate student work is vetted […]
UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Final Competition: Thursday, April 10, 2016
Ah, just one more sleep! With much anticipation, UBC’s sixth annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) final competition is happening tomorrow (Thursday, March 10th – 4:30-6:00 PM at the Graduate Student Centre Ballroom). The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is an academic competition for current graduate students. It gives them an opportunity to hone their presentation […]
NEW: Teaching in a Digital Age arrives in cIRcle
It is an honour to present the arrival of Teaching in a Digital Age – an open textbook in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository! Many have described him as “insightful” as well as a “pioneer” and “expert”. Dr. Tony Bates can rightly be called “one-of-a-kind”. While “his hobbies include golf, skiing and flying a small plane”, […]
DLF 2015 Forum makes its Canadian debut
Making history by holding its forum in Canada for the first time and celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Council on Library and Information Resources’ (CLIR) Digital Library Federation (DLF) forum was held on October 26-28, 2015 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Missed attending this exciting historical event? Watch the DLF recordings of the preconference and conference […]