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The HATCH Serial Entrepreneur: Optimism against All Odds

The HATCH Serial Entrepreneur: Optimism against All Odds

  Isolation, the perpetual threat of illness, and supply chain disruptions in the third year of the pandemic, compounded by the ominous portent of severe weather events, can challenge the optimism of even the most glass half-full people. But not some of the entrepreneurs coming out of the HATCH startup accelerator at UBC. Six years […]

$24 Million Spinal Cord Repair Project Funded

$24 Million Spinal Cord Repair Project Funded

January 12, 2022

An international multidisciplinary team led by Dr. John Madden, who leads the ICICS Bionics Network is working on a novel approach that may help people with spinal cord injury.

Raymond Chau Appointed Program Manager of UBC-Rogers Partnership

Raymond Chau Appointed Program Manager of UBC-Rogers Partnership

Jan 11, 2022

Raymond Chau has taken on the newly created position of Program Manager, UBC-Rogers 5G Partnership.

Dr. Peter Zandstra Appointed to Order of Canada

Dr. Peter Zandstra Appointed to Order of Canada

Peter Zandstra, Director of the University of British Columbia’s School of Biomedical Engineering (SBME), was appointed to the Order of Canada on December 29 for his significant contributions to stem cell bioengineering and regenerative medicine. Dr. Zandstra also co-leads the ICICS research cluster Biomedical Imaging and AI (BMIAI) with Tim Salcudean. This appointment is both a recognition […]

Professor Rob Rohling Reappointed as ICICS Director

Professor Rob Rohling Reappointed as ICICS Director

Professor Rob Rohling’s appointment as Director of the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS) has been extended for five years effective January 1, 2022. Professor Rohling commenced a 5-year term as ICICS Director in January 2017. Since that time, he has built on ICICS’ 30+ year history of cross-faculty and industry collaboration to […]

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Health Cluster Alliance

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Health Cluster Alliance

The Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Health Cluster Alliance comprises 8 UBC Research Excellence Clusters who contribute to health research. The goal of this alliance is to learn about inequity and oppression in a post-secondary context, to investigate the strategies that the University of British Columbia and other institutions are using to combat various types of oppression, and to create change, starting within our Clusters. Three […]

Leveraging 5G and Student Brain Power: the UBC-Rogers 5G Smart Transportation Virtual Case Competition

Leveraging 5G and Student Brain Power: the UBC-Rogers 5G Smart Transportation Virtual Case Competition

Dec 10, 2021

UBC-Rogers virtual competition challenged student teams to find solutions to Vancouver traffic congestion using 5G technology.

Rogers and UBC Renew 5G Research Partnership through 2025

Rogers and UBC Renew 5G Research Partnership through 2025

Nov 18, 2021

Four-year $4.8 million partnership will focus on new 5G research projects in areas like wildfire management that will help the province respond to new environmental challenges.

Blockchain Industry Night September 23, 2021

Blockchain Industry Night September 23, 2021

The industry night held by the ICICS research cluster Blockchain@UBC  on September 23 was a great success, even if it had to be held online. To recap, we openly acknowledged the contribution of industry partners to the Blockchain Graduate Pathway and the continuous support of Mitcas, NSERC and ICCIS (The Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems). […]

Thriving…Not Just Surviving

Thriving…Not Just Surviving

While the world has been on pause during the pandemic, innovation on campus has continued to flourish. Startups generally have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic. As challenging as launching a startup is in the best of times, doing so during a pandemic presents smaller ventures with even greater challenges in accessing funding, research […]