Congratulations to the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award winners for October 2015!
The Open Scholar Award rewards non-thesis work from UBC Vancouver graduate students twice per year. The most recent winners include Paul Liu, an MSc graduate student from the UBC Department of Computer Science, and Monica L. P. Lytwyn, who completed her MEd in Early Childhood Education at UBC earlier this year.
Liu’s entry, “An exploration of matrix equilibration,” is an article submitted to cIRcle in September. Lytwyn’s entry, “Co-creating a pedagogical support document to support meaningful curriculum and enhanced quality,” is a paper completed for her degree requirements. Both of their items are now publicly available in cIRcle, meaning researchers from around the globe can access it.
Graduate students are encouraged to submit their non-thesis work to cIRcle – this can include essays, papers, presentations (including posters), and video and audio based projects.
The award is a lottery based system, randomly selecting items submitted to cIRcle during the previous 6 month period. Four awards are given per annum, two in April and two in October. cIRcle, launched by the Library in 2007 to showcase and preserve UBC’s research and teaching materials, is ranked as the top repository in Canada. It also is ranked 14th in North America and 44th globally.
The next award submission deadline is March 26, 2016.
For more information about the award, visit the cIRcle website.