Research and Scholarly Activity Committees and Boards

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Animal Care Committee	BCGEU Professional Development Committees
The VIU Animal Care Committee exercises the authority of the President in matters concerning animal care. It is responsible in all matters concerning animals kept for, or used in, research and teaching, under the aegis of Vancouver Island University, both on and off campus.	Provides funding for studies, or experience in business, industry, community service, government or other educational institution, to increase personal development through a leave or to attend an event.
Canada Research Chair Recruitment Committee	CIHR Awards Selection Committee
The CRC Recruitment Committee is in the process of recruiting a Canada Research Chair Tier II for the fall of 2010. The Committee will reconvene when VIU is allocated additional chairs.	VIU's internal selection committee for the CIHR Health Professional Student Research Awards and the CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarship.
NSERC Awards Selection Committee	VIU Faculty Association Professional and Scholarly Development Committee
VIU's internal selection committee for NSERC's Undergraduate Student Research Awards and Postgraduate (and Canada Graduate ) Scholarship Master's Awards.	The VIUFA Professional & Scholarly Development Committee sponsors activity that, in their opinion, will help to maintain excellence of instruction and educational service at VIU. The committee members evaluates and supports events and activities on the basis of how much professional interest they are to the general faculty.
Research & Scholarly Activity Committee	Research Ethics Board
VIU recognizes that scholarly activity is important to academic excellence, and is an essential component of the faculty workload. This committee awards the VIU Research and Scholarly Activity Grant that enables faculty to participate in scholarly activity which furthers study and research, and is designed to increase knowledge in the faculty member's field or fields of expertise, not solely for maintaining currency.	This web site is designed to assist researchers and others in learning about ethics in research, in order to maintain VIU's commitment to the highest ethical standards in research involving human subjects and to seeing that the safety, health, welfare, and rights of subjects are adequately protected.
SSHRC Scholarship Selection Committee	Student Travel & Research (STAR) Committee
VIU's internal selection committee for the SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master's Award.	This Committee selects award recipients to receive fudning from the Student Travel & Conference Fund & the Jessica Wilde Conference Participation Fund.
Travel & Conference Proceedings Funding Committee	VIU Faculty Association Leave Committee
This Committee administers Travel & Conference Funding awards for training and conference participation and presentation for the B.C. Government & Service Employees' Union and for conference participation and presentation for the VIU Faculty Association.	In order to maintain excellence of instruction and educational service at VIU, it is recognized that there is a need for faculty to have the opportunity to participate in and pursue activities related to professional development. This committee helps with the funding of these endeavours through the VIU FA Association Leave.
VIU Research Awards Committee (VIURAC)	Graduate Research Award Committee
This committee was established to encourage and support research and scholarly activity for the institution and to administer the Research Fund and other research funds that may be assigned to the Committee from time to time. Currently, the two funds administered by the Committee are the Research Fund (RF) and the Capacity Building Grant (CGB). VIU RAC also serves in an advisory capacity to the Director of Research Services regarding external institutional grants.	The Graduate Research Award recognizes outstanding research in: independent research supervised by a faculty member; an independent project undertaken for credit.