{"id":1022,"date":"2025-11-17T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:25:52","slug":"project-funding-phd-collab-pilot-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/project-funding-phd-collab-pilot-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Project funding: PhD Collab Pilot Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations to Ilsa and Elsa for receiving funding from the UBC Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (G+PS) PhD Collab pilot program for their project &#8220;How to build a living planet: the ingredients for life on other worlds&#8221;. The primary objectives of this program are to provide new opportunities for PhD students to build competencies and networks in collaborative, inter\/transdisciplinary scholarly work, and to advance collaboration as a desired research and learning mode across disciplines to enrich scholarship. This will be a collaboration with Dr. Michelle Kunimoto (Physics &amp; Astronomy), Dr. Sean Crowe (Earth, Ocean &amp; Atmospheric Science; Microbiology &amp; Immunology), Justine Obidowski (PHYS), and Shea Thorne (EOAS). Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/about-us\/news\/faculty-graduate-students-receive-funding-collaborative-projects\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Biomolecule-Graphic-NASA-JennyMottar.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050\"\/><figcaption>Credit: NASA\/Jenny Mottar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Ilsa and Elsa for receiving funding from the UBC Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (G+PS) PhD Collab pilot program for their project &#8220;How to build a living planet: the ingredients for life on other worlds&#8221;. The primary objectives of this program are to provide new opportunities for PhD students to build competencies &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/project-funding-phd-collab-pilot-program\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Project funding: PhD Collab Pilot Program&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}