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 […]
cIRcle ‘takes home gold’ in the latest Webometrics repository rankings
cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository is currently ranked the number 1 repository in Canada and consistently ranks in the top 5 of Canadian repositories in “The Ranking Web of World Repositories” operated by the Cybermetrics Lab in Spain. In North America, cIRcle is ranked number 12. Internationally, cIRcle ranks number 20 out of 1660 institutional repositories […]
Catch the Sochi 2014 (and Vancouver 2010) Olympic fever
Can’t make it to Sochi 2014? Not to worry. There are over 20 UBC experts available to comment on the Sochi Games, from security to sports science at: http://news.ubc.ca/2014/02/04/story-ideas-and-experts-for-the-sochi-games/. Find Games-related experts, Q&As and feature stories about UBC people going to Sochi; Russia; Athlete health, sport medicine and doping; Sport psychology; Sustainability and the […]
All in a graduate student researcher’s day (Feb. 18, 2014)
As a graduate student, would you like to discover, gather, create and share your scholarly research with others who are interested in studying your area of research or with those who are interested in pursuing an exciting graduate student career like yours? If so, don’t miss out on the upcoming Graduate Student Workshop Series’ events […]