Celebrate Research Week comprises a great number of interesting and diverse events, each with their own approach and audience.  In 2010, an international conference on Sport and Society was held; corresponding with the Olympic Games and CBC’s Quirks & Quarks Question Show was taped live at the Chan Centre where UBC experts answered the top 10 questions submitted for the Celebrate Research Week Quirks & Quarks Question Challenge.

Core events encompassed by Celebrate Research Week include:

• Celebrate Research Awards Gala
• UBC Excellence in Research Lecture (sponsored by the Vancouver Institute)
• Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC)

Upcoming UBC Library at Celebrate Research Week Workshops include:

• RefWorks for the Sciences
  
• RefWorks for the Health Sciences
• Noon-hour Refworks
• Writing the Research Paper: Student Workshop
• Get Published – Sources and Resources
• What’s the Impact of Your Research? Tips and Tools for Measuring Usage
• RefWorks for Business Researchers
• Intro to PubMed
• Get Published -Sources and Resources
• Finding and Using Images in ARTstor

Happy Celebrate Research Week everyone!

Did You Know?

The Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies’ Beyond Binaries and Borders symposium held on March 13-14, 2009 was part of UBC’s Celebrate Research Week. Click here to see their Spring/Summer 2009 newsletter in cIRcle.

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

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.