CRIS Research Roundup
A weekly digest of research and innovation communications.
In This Issue
Issue 254: Week of Monday, June 16, 2025 - Sunday, June 22, 2025
Resources for the Research & Innovation Community
Featured Training & Events
- Thursdays@3: AI Jam
July 17, 2025, 3:00pm-3:50pm - Cyber Security and Your Research(ers) Office Hours
July 8, 2025, 1:00pm-2:00pm - Faculty Writing Accelerator: 12 Weeks to Publication
Deadline for application: August 8, 2025, 5:00pm
More Training & Events
- STAR Networking Event: Building Stronger Research Administration Through Shared Knowledge
June 24, 2025, 10:00am-2:00pm - Frontiers of AI: Insights from a Nobel Laureate
June 25, 2025, 3:00pm-4:30pm - Achieving Greater Cultural Safety in Mental Health Services through Research and Traditional Knowledges
June 25, 2025, 4:00pm-5:00pm - Reflecting on Indigenous Land Acknowledgements
June 26, 2025, 10:00am-1:00pm - KT Canada Seminar Series – Citizen Science: An Approach to Engage the Public and Co-Develop Research Questions
June 26, 2025, 12:00pm-1:00pm - Citizen Science: An Approach to Engage the Public and Co-develop Research Questions
June 26, 2025, 12:00pm-1:00pm - CRAFT: The 2025 Microfluidics Professional Course
July 9-11, 2025 - CFI JELF Application: Strategies for Success
July 17, 2025, 10:30am – 12:00pm - COMPASS 2025
July 22-25 - CIHR Project Grant: Strategies for Success
July 24, 2025, 1:00pm-2:30pm - Barriers to Reconciliation: Walking the Path of Indigenous Allyship
August 6, 2025, 1:00pm-4:00pm
More Resources
Faculty Writing Accelerator: 12 Weeks to Publication
Original Communication — CRIS Compass: June 5, 2026
Scholarly writing is the mark of all disciplines and publishing scholarly writing is how fields are shaped and discipline conversations progress. This free program offered by CRIS to support faculty writing through a sustained 12-week (Sept. 5-Nov. 28, 2025) series of discussions that will focus on the practice of writing, improving abstracts and titles for higher rates of acceptance in scholarly journals, and foster opportunities to learn from interdisciplinary peers across the tri-campus.
CBRCanada’s Summer Institute
Original Communication – CBRCanada June 2025 Newsletter: June 18, 2025
Are you a student, recent grad, post-doc, faculty, or staff at a CBRCanada member institution with a passion for applied, action-oriented research?
Don’t miss out on CBRCanada’s Community-Based Research Summer Institute, a 5-day virtual learning experience from August 18–22 (12–2:30pm ET). Learn how to design and conduct collaborative, community-driven research that addresses real-world issues and drives change.
Funding & Information from Sponsors & Partners
Funding Calls and Program Changes
NSERC Alliance Society – Funding Update
Original Communication – Research Alerts: June 18, 2025
Entrepreneurship for Commercialization of Health Opportunities (ECHO) – Call for Applications
Original Communication – Research Alerts: June 17, 2025
Indigenous Science and the Impacts of Plastic Pollution
Original Communication – Research Alerts: June 17, 2025
Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSC) Global Fellowship
Original Communication – Research Alerts: June 17, 2025
Data Sciences Institute – Research Software Development Support Program – Call for Projects
Original Communication – Research Alerts: June 16, 2025
News, Information & Updates
information and updates
Final AI Task Force and Working Group reports released
Original Communication — University of Toronto – Artificial Intelligence website: June 17, 2025
The final report highlights that the wise adoption of AI tools in the higher education context requires informed and principled consideration of the benefits, opportunities and risks. The report also imagines a comprehensive and human-centred vision for responsible AI adoption at U of T in 2030 and recommends steps toward becoming an ‘AI-ready’ university.
