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

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 […]

JEDI Health Cluster Alliance
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.

5G Student Case Competition
Rogers and UBC Renew 5G Research Partnership
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.