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Celebrate Research Week “draw[s] attention to outstanding research from all fields at UBC” and “generate[s] true understanding and appreciation of the benefits – social, economic, educational – that the generation of new knowledge and understanding can bring to the region, the province and the country”.

Celebrate Research Week Events:

Wednesday, March 9th

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
When it comes to Biomechanics… is injury prevention the best medicine?
Kaiser 2020/2030
2185 East Mall
UBC Point Grey Campus

2:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Forestry Graduate Research Poster Showcase
Forest Sciences Centre Atrium
2424 Main Mall
UBC Point Grey Campus

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
CIHR Café Scientifique -When efficiency trumps quality: discussions about what happens when health care is treated as a commodity
Roundhouse Café
181 Roundhouse Mews (corner of Davie & Pacific)
Vancouver, BC

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Clean Energy for the Future
Vancouver Public Library
Alma VanDusen & Peter Kaye rooms
350 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC

Did You Know?

In cIRcle, there is a Granting Agency Mandates Community with the following two sub-communities: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Research Outputs at UBC and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) Research Outputs at UBC.  So far, some of the Top Country Views of this UBC research output have been from:

Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Cote d’Ivoire, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Korea,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Romania, Russian Federation, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States of America

Above excerpt in italics is courtesy of the Celebrate Research Week website.

Above image is courtesy of the Office of the Vice President, Research & International website.

The Haunting of Canadian Culture:

From the Ghost of Tom Thompson to the Ghosts of Vimy Ridge

– Professor Sherrill Grace

Professor Grace is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Distinguished University Scholar at UBC. Among her awards are the 2008 Canada Council Killam Prize in Humanities, and the Lorne Pierce Medal for her books about the Canadian North. She has published extensively on Canadian literature, the arts, and culture with over 200 articles and chapters and 23 books including: Canada and the Idea of North, Inventing Tom Tomson, Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock and, most recently, On the Art of Being Canadian. She is currently finishing a book about Canada and the two world wars called Landscapes of Memory, and she is beginning research for a biography of Timothy Findley.

Celebrate Research Week Event:

Saturday, March 5th

8:15 PM – 9:45 PM
UBC Excellence in Research Lecture
Vancouver Institute

Did You Know?

The University Archives holds audio and video tapes of the more recent lectures, which are also listed in cIRcle.

Above excerpt in italics is courtesy of UBC’s Celebrate Research Week and UBC Events.

Above image is courtesy of University Archives.

The Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) celebrates the contributions of undergraduate scholarly inquiry/research at UBC.  Both students who are currently engaged in undergraduate research and students who are interested in getting connected to an undergraduate research experience are encouraged to attend. UBC community members are also welcome to attend this annual celebration of undergraduate scholarly work.  The conference is held every year in March, and is strongly linked to UBC’s Celebrate Research Week.

Registration is now underway. Spots are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Visit the new MURC website here for more details.

Click here to complete the MURC 2011 Registration Form.

WHEN: Saturday, March 19, 2011

WHERE: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC)

COST: Free

Did You Know?

cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository archived previous MURC collections covering 2008 to 2010? You can view them here.

Above excerpt in italics is courtesy of the Learning Commons website and above image is courtesy of Flickr: UBC Library’s Photostream.