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LFS in the News Sylvain Charlebois, an Affiliate Professor with LFS and a Professor at Dalhousie University, wrote an article for Retail Insider: Second Lockdowns Will Have Impact on Food Retail in Canada. Finance 301: Procurement, Receiving & Supplier Invoices in Workday This call-in is open to all UBC faculty and staff who want to learn […]

  LFS Family Care Assistance Program Funds The Faculty recognizes the many profound challenges our community is facing with respect to COVID-19, in particular, for those providing care for family members – be it child-care, elder-care or other dependents. The LFS senior management team and the LFS ad hoc TLEF Block Funding Committee have recently […]

LFS Instructors Named UBC Open Education Resource Champions Associate Professor Maja Krzic and Sessional Lecturer Matthew Mitchell were named UBC Open Education Resource Champions for 2020. Dr. Krzic is a co-editor of an open access E-textbook under development for Introduction to Soil Science, a course taken by 300 students annually at UBC alone. Currently textbooks written for […]

Learning Centre Support for Term 2 Courses Are you an instructor teaching in Term 2? Are you thinking of trying something new with your online course? Do you feel that you are not fully leveraging the technology available to you? Do you need someone to bounce ideas off? Do you need help with designing your […]

Acting Dean Please note that Zhaoming Xu will serve as the Acting Dean for Nov 18 when Rickey is away. Wellness Wednesday Your Mental Health Tip of the Week: Good things happen all the time. Keep a record. Dietetics Crowdfundraiser We recently launched a crowdfundraiser to establish a Dietetics Rural and Indigenous Communities Placement Fund to […]

LFS in the News Cara LeGault and Franco López Campomanes, undergraduate students in the Applied Biology program, were profiled in the magazine Agrisuccess (pages 8 & 9 of the magazine). Random Acts of Recognition Congratulations to Random Acts of Recognition recipients: Thilini Leitan, Student Engagement Officer and Annie Lin, ROOTSS Program Coordinator (with Student Services) for […]

Most Creative Pumpkin Contest Winners Thank you to everyone who voted and submitted an entry to our Most Creative Pumpkin contest! The winners are: E.T. phone home, by Patricia Hingston Life in pumpkin, by Justin Henry Baby-o-lantern, by John Frostad Congratulations! Winners will be contacted by the Dean’s Office.   Mac OS Upgrade Compatibility Issues On November 12, […]

New LFS Today Header We hope our new header image freshens up your daily dose of news and events in the Faculty! Many thanks to Michelle Hung, a work-learn student and communications assistant in the Dean’s Office, for designing the header. Michelle is a third-year in the FNH program. Vote for the Most Creative Pumpkin! If you […]

Vote for the Most Creative Pumpkin! Thank you to everyone who submitted their pumpkins to our carving contest! We invite everyone to vote for their favourites at the link below. Please choose your three favourite pumpkins by entering 1, 2, or 3 next to their captions. Voting ends on Monday, November 9.Click here to vote! […]

    MFRE Speaker Series – Today *Note the new start timeSpeaker: Mark Podlasly, from Nlaka’pamux Nation and Director of Governance at the First Nations Financial Management BoardTopic: Land and Resource Access in the Era of Indigenous RightsDate & Time: Tuesday, November 3, 12:00-1:30pm Mark will give an introduction to the Aboriginal rights history and issues in Canada, […]