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Call for Nominations by Feb 2 - Agilent Early Career Professor Award

UBC has been invited to submit 1 application (or at most 2) for the Agilent Early Career Professor Award, which is valued at $120k and available to tenure-track professors up to 12 years past PhD/MD residency, who are leading researchers with work aligning with the focus area of “Contributions to…

UBC Faculty Among Order of Canada December 2022 Appointees

On December 29, 2022, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, announced 99 appointments to the Order of Canada.

Nomination Support for NSERC Prizes

The NSERC 'Joint Prizes': Herzberg, Polanyi, Brockhouse, and Strickland, are expected to open for nominations in early 2023, and the Office of Research Prizes and Awards is offering support for all UBC nominations including consultation, review of nomination files, and coordination of (optional)…

Notice of Royal Society of Canada Medals Competition - Deadline March 31, 2023

Royal Society of Canada is awarding nine (9) distinct Medals and Awards in 2023 across a variety of disciplines

Call for SSHRC Impact Awards nominations by January 24

The 2023 SSHRC Impact Awards Competition is now open. UBC is limited to one nomination per award, so the Office of the VP Research & Innovation is seeking nominations and will coordinate an internal selection process for the Gold Medal, Insight, Connection and Partnership Awards. Self…

UBC researchers among CHIME team awarded NSERC's Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering

Award recognizes outstanding Canadian teams of researchers from different disciplines who came together to engage in research drawing on their combined knowledge and skills, and produced a record of excellent achievements in the natural sciences and engineering.

Two UBC Faculty Members Receive Royal Society of Canada Awards

Drs. Kimberley Brownlee and Rashid Sumaila receive the Kitty Newman Memorial Award and Miroslaw Romanowski Medal respectively.

Thirteen UBC Faculty Members Elected to the Royal Society of Canada

Four UBC faculty members elected as Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences

Drs. Karim Khan, Kathleen Martin Ginis, Julio Montaner and Sabrina Wong are among 71 new Fellows elected into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) for 2022.

Request for Notice of RSC Nominations by Sept 22

The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) will open the next call for nominations for Fellows and Members of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists in early September. We encourage you to begin considering nominations for your colleagues, especially if you are a current Fellow or College…