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The CfIS that we have known for the past five plus years is evolving.

On February 15, 2012, the UBC senate approved a motion to change the mandate and structure of CfIS.  As a result, research units currently housed within CfIS move to Faculties. Graduate programs currently housed and administered within these research units will move to the respective faculties.

For a list of CfIS units and their new Faculty homes, as well as the Senate motion, please see the CfIS website at www.cfis.ubc.ca/about/cfis-transitions.

I now look forward to rapidly establishing effective and supportive practices in the new CfIS to work together with Faculties to support innovation and incubation of new  interdisciplinary programs at UBC, to support the development and launch of undergraduate and graduate interdisciplinary programs, and to provide advice and oversight for interdisciplinary activities on campus.

As part of the ongoing review of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, an advisory committee to the Provost chaired by Dean pro tem Susan Porter will consider the best academic structure for administering the independent graduate programs currently administered by CfIS (Bioinformatics, Cell and Developmental Biology, Genetics, Genome Science and Technology, Interdisciplinary Oncology, Neuroscience, Sustainable Building Science Program).

I thank all of the staff, faculty and directors who have provided ongoing support (and much patience) during this period of evolution. I also want to wish a warm thank you and goodbye to those staff who are leaving CfIS as a result of these changes.

I look forward to moving into a new, cooperative era of integrated campus-wide support for interdiscipinarity at UBC.

Best regards,

Hugh Brock, CfIS Principal