Resources for the Research & Innovation Community
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CRIS Research Roundup
A weekly digest of research and innovation communications.
In This Issue
Issue 278: Week of Monday, December 15, 2025 - Sunday, December 21, 2025
Please note that the next issue of Research Roundup will be published on January 13, 2026.
Resources for the Research & Innovation Community
Funding & Information from Sponsors & Partners
News, Information & Updates
Resources for the Research & Innovation Community
Featured Training & Events
- Cyber Security and Your Research(ers) Office Hours \ January 13, 2026, 1:00pm-2:00pm
- Project Management for Research \ January 16, 2026, 11:00am-12:30pm
- AI-Assisted Quantitative Data Analysis\ January 22, 2026, 10:30am-12:00pm
More Training & Events
- Privacy Book Display at Robarts Library \ January 5-30, 2026
- Navigating U of T’s Internal Grant Landscape\ January 8, 2026, 12:00pm-1:00pm
- CBRC Community of Practice: Arts-Based Research & Acute Care Collaborations \ January 9, 2026, 12:00pm-1:00pm
- Film and Scholarship: A Research-Creation Workshop \ January 12, 2026, 9:30am-2:00pm
- Understanding Your Responsibility to Preventing Racial Discrimination & Harassment in the Work Environment \ January 12, 2026, 1:00pm-3:00pm
- Beyond Treatment: Advancing Cancer Survivorship Team Grants \ January 13, 2026, 11:00am-12:30pm
- U of T Privacy Clinic \ January 13, 2026, 11:00am-2:00pm
- FemSTEM 2026 Kickoff Event & Panel \ January 13, 2026, 3:30pm-5:00pm
- Where Research Begins: “Meaningless Questions” and Other Secrets to Groundbreaking Research Projects\ January 14, 2026, 11:30am-12:30pm
- CBRCanada E-Learning Series: “Decisions for Affordable Social Housing” \ January 15, 2026, 12:00pm-1:00pm
- We’re Talking About the Wrong Error: Why Variance Matters More than Bias in AI \ January 19, 2026, 11:00am – 5:00pm
- Open Doors: Faith & Anti-Racism @ U of T \ January 20, 2026, 1:30pm-3:00pm
- Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead \ January 20, 2026, 5:00pm-7:30pm
- Research Roundtable on 2SLGBTQI+ (Rainbow) Entrepreneurship \ January 21, 2026, 9:30am-5:00pm
- Data Sciences Institute Talent Showcase \ January 22, 2026, 8:00am-5:00pm
- CBRCanada E-Learning Series: “Centering Lived Experience of Incarceration in Research” \ January 22, 2026, 12:00pm-1:00pm
- The Art of Storytelling: A Workshop with Lidia Akar \ January 22, 2026, 5:00pm-7:00pm
- SDGs Transdisciplinary Knowledge Co-Production CoP \ January 23, 2026, 9:00am-4:00pm
- Excel and the Fundamentals of Data \ January 23, 2026, 3:00pm-5:00pm
- Surveillance, Policy and Art, with Professor Evan Light \ January 27, 2026, 10:30am-11:30am
- Let’s Talk International Partnerships Fireside Chat – International Students: Life After Graduation documentary screening \ January 27, 2026, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Funding & Information from Sponsors & Partners
Announcements
Reminder – Outgoing Sub-awards Request Form: Required for new sub-award requests effective January 1, 2026 \ Original Communication – Research Alert: December 18, 2025
Funding Calls and Program Changes
Applications Open for Lab2Market Validate Foundations Women in STEM Winter 2026 – Ontario \ Original Communication – Research Alert: December 19, 2025
BRN IGNITE Grant 5.0 \ Original Communication – BRN website: December 16, 2025
Connaught Major Research Challenge for Black Researchers \ Original Communication – BRN website: December 16, 2025
CANSSI Ontario AI Applications in Statistical Sciences Research Grant \ Original Communication – Research Alert: December 15, 2025
Horizon Europe: 2026-27 Work Programme Released; Information Sessions and Brokerage Events \ Original Communication – Research Alert: December 15, 2025
News, Information & Updates
News
Can Canada Survive Trump’s Attack on Science?
Original Communication – Macleans: December 15, 2025
Leah Cowen, Vice-President of Research and Innovation and Strategic Initiatives, writes about the challenges and opportunities that stem from changes to U.S. support for research including U of T’s emergency research fund designed to support faculty affected by funding cuts and its commitment to global partnerships.
Information & Updates
Survey on Draft Principles for New Discrimination Policy \ Original Communication – Provost Digest: December 19, 2025 \ In response to the recommendations of the Co-Chairs Report on the Review of the University’s Statement on Prohibited Discrimination and Discriminatory Harassment , the University is creating a new policy to address discrimination and harassment under the Ontario Human Rights Code. The Vice-President & Provost and Vice-President, People Strategy, Equity & Culture welcome your feedback on the draft principles and key elements for the new policy. The online consultation survey will close January 31.