Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia supports basic research through interdisciplinary initiatives that have the potential to make important advances in knowledge. The Institute brings together researchers from UBC with distinguished scholars from around the world to conduct fundamental research drawing upon and contributing to a wide range of diverse disciplines.
The Institute aims to create a community of scholars, composed of outstanding researchers across the whole campus, who will contribute significantly to the intellectual life of the university. Of overriding concern in all Institute activities is excellence in research characterized by being fundamental, interdisciplinary, innovative and unique.
The Summer Institute
The Summer Institute is intended as an intense five day workshop of 10 to 15 outstanding interdisciplinary scholars in residence who were invited from around the world to debate, discuss, and push forward thinking on a cutting-edge research question with select scholars from the University of British Columbia.
This is followed several months later by a weekend retreat in another part of the world for participants of the summer workshop and invitees who were unable to attend the first event.