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Using AI to support law students and expand access to justice
At the Peter A. Allard School of Law, professors Jon Festinger, K.C., and Nikos Harris, K.C., are exploring how technology can better support students as they navigate the demands of clinical legal education. These programs offer invaluable hands‑on experience serving clients with limited means, but they also require students to manage complex facts, evolving legal…
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AI Adoption: British Columbia pharmacists experiment with new tools
A project of the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, GENRx is a virtual patient simulation platform led by Fong Chan, co-assistant director of the E2P PharmD Program, and Jamie Yuen, assistant director of the UBC Pharmacists Clinic. The idea was inspired by the emergence of AI large language models such as ChatGPT…
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UBC Cloud Innovation Centre’s role in advancing UBC’s Strategic Directions
With the launch of its refreshed strategic plan UBC’s Strategic Directions 2025-2030 earlier this fall, UBC has a renewed vision for research, teaching, innovation, and community impact. At the same time, the UBC Cloud Innovation Centre (UBC CIC or CIC) continues to grow and emerge as an influential driver of many of the new strategic priorities. Here’s how CIC is helping bring the UBC’s strategic plan to life:
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Using Amazon Chime and SIP Media Applications to improve emergency communications in rural areas
Using Amazon Chime and SIP Media Applications to improve emergency communications in rural areas By Trevor Flanigan Working on STARS was a great learning experience for me. It was the first project that I built using AWS, and I had so much support from the members of the FLASH and Chime teams, as well as…
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The student perspective – Neelim Novo
The student perspective – Neelim Novo I have been working as a student developer at the UBC Community Health and Wellbeing Cloud Innovation Centre since January 2021. While I may have started off with no experience in Cloud Computing, I was soon able to work on a project leveraging over 13 different Amazon Web Services…
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The student perspective – Edward Chen
The student perspective – Edward Chen I have been a developer intern at UBC CIC since January 2021. Before starting, I was feeling both excited and a little anxious about the challenges here because there were a lot of firsts. For instance, this was my first internship, my first time working remotely, my first time…