By Kevin Ho on May 12, 2010
UBC supports Vancouver’s greenest city plan with grants for students to work on green projects
One of the first initiatives is the creation of the Greenest City Action Team Scholars program, which will see UBC provide grants for 10 graduate students to help implement the Greenest City 2020 Plan.
UBC and the City of Vancouver have signed a multi-year agreement promising to work together on common goals of sustainability, climate action and a green economy.
UBC is offering its expertise to help Vancouver achieve its 2020 dream, adapting programs that have worked well at the university to meet the needs of an urban centre, said UBC President Stephen Toope.
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Above excerpt in italics is courtesy of Daily Media Summary from UBC Public Affairs’ webpage – http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2010/05/12/ubc-supports-vancouvers-greenest-city-plan-with-grants-for-students-to-work-on-green-projects/
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By Kevin Ho on Apr 23, 2010
There are over 2,600 Theses and Dissertations from 2008 to date
and over 18,600 Theses and Dissertations before 2008 in cIRcle.
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By Kevin Ho on
Pacific Affairs: An International Review of Asia and the Pacific
Browse the Journal’s electronic book reviews at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/23360.
Visit the Pacific Affairs home page at: http://www.pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/.
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cIRcle has over 200 conference papers from the 6th International Conference on Gas Hydrates.
Browse through this collection at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/1022.
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By Kevin Ho on Apr 21, 2010
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 in the world – according to research from CSIC (the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), the largest public research body in Spain.
A separate CSIC ranking places UBC’s cIRcle (https://circle.ubc.ca) at 77th out of 400 global institutional repositories (IRs). An IR is an online storehouse for an institution’s scholarly and administrative output.
“This is such an encouraging result, given that cIRcle began developing only about three years ago,” says Hilde Colenbrander, cIRcle’s Co-ordinator. “We plan to continue enhancing our holdings so we can showcase UBC’s contributions to the world.”
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Above excerpt in italics is courtesy of UBC Library News from UBC Library’s webpage – http://blogs.ubc.ca/librarynews/2010/03/26/ubc-circle-excel-in-global-rankings/
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