In the Spotlight: MURC & Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Celebrate innovative undergraduate research at UBC It is touted as the biggest undergraduate research conference in British Columbia. The Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) 2014 is happening this Saturday (March 22, 2014). This annual event highlights current UBC undergraduate researchers and their work while ‘keynote speakers share their exceptional and exciting research experiences’. Back in […]
GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award submission deadline next week
Did you just complete a graduate non-thesis, course-related project or manuscript? If so, it could help you win the next GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award. Two lottery-style awards worth $500 each are provided in April and October each year and is sponsored by the Graduate Student Society (GSS), cIRcle – UBC’s Digital Repository and UBC […]
NEW: Intellectual Muscle podcasts from the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Nearly twenty Intellectual Muscle (IM) podcasts were recently archived in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository. The “Intellectual Muscle – The Talks” project was sponsored by VANOC, UBC Continuing Studies and The Globe and Mail for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games held in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Intellectual Muscle podcasts have found ‘a permanent home’ in […]
Meet UBC’s 13th President – Dr. Arvind Gupta
A renowned expert in research and innovation policy who has forged close collaborations between universities, civil society and business has been appointed the 13th president and vice chancellor of the University of British Columbia. Dr. Arvind Gupta is currently chief executive officer and scientific director of Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization recognized internationally for nurturing the […]
New cIRcle License Version 2.0 arrives on March 7, 2014
A new version of the cIRcle Non-Exclusive Distribution License (‘the License’) will go into effect on Friday March 7, 2014. This License applies to materials added to cIRcle on or after March 7, 2014. As before, copyright holders retain their copyright under Version 2.0 of the License. The text of the new License is […]