LFS Today May 31, 2021
Message from Rickey on the discovery of missing children in Kamloops Our hearts are with those mourning the 215 young lives lost. The Kamloops Indian Residential School only closed in 1978, within many of our lifetimes. UBC’s Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-Kwe), Director of the Residential School History and Dialogue Centre and a professor at the […]
LFS Today May 28, 2021
Lecture: Elizabeth Novak, Candidate for Lecturer in Human Nutrition – Today Dr. Elizabeth Novak, Sessional Lecturer, Food Nutrition and Health Program, UBC, and Instructor, Health & Human Nutrition, Capilano University Lecture: Protein Digestion and AbsorptionMay 28, 9:30-10:50am Register in advance for this meeting: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5YvfuCupzwtE9HGM7bKz8ZD-TDyEGKmKj_J Lunch & Learn Series: Cultivating Creativity in STEM Classrooms – Today This session […]
LFS Today May 27, 2021
LFS Virtual Graduation Celebration – June 1 If you haven’t yet registered, we’re inviting faculty and staff to join the Class of 2021 graduating students! This virtual celebration takes place June 1, the day before the official UBC Convocation ceremonies on June 2. Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2021Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm PDTRegister: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5wld-uhqDgsGtYjRZbAS9dCmfD6eemITHFA(we will send a reminder a few days […]
LFS Today May 26, 2021
Candidates for Joint Lecturer (FRST and LFS) in Communications (LFS/FRST 150) – Lecture 2 Today We will be interviewing four candidates for the position of Lecturer in Communications. We have included their information below, along with Zoom links to the lectures. Registration is required, so please click on the links in advance to register. After […]
LFS Today May 25, 2021
Candidates for Joint Lecturer (FRST and LFS) in Communications (LFS/FRST 150) – Lecture 1 Today Candidates for Joint Lecturer (FRST and LFS) in Communications (LFS/FRST 150) We will be interviewing four candidates for the position of Lecturer in Communications. We have included their information below, along with Zoom links to the lectures. Registration is required, […]
LFS Today May 21, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Productivity Tools with Sahil Sahibole – Rescheduled Note: Our planned topic for the session with Sean Hollowaychuk this Friday, May 21 at noon has been rescheduled. Our topic for this session will now be ‘Productivity Tools’ presented by Sahil Sahibole of LFS Learning Centre. Productivity tools are tools that help you be more […]
LFS Today May 20, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Teaching Experiences in an Online Distance Learning Course This session will be held on Friday, May 21 at noon. Sean Hollowaychuk will present his experiences in teaching the distance learning course LFS 302. To register for the session, please visit https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1 LFS Virtual Graduation Celebration – June 1 We invite faculty and staff to join […]
LFS Today May 19, 2021
LFS Virtual Townhall – Today All faculty and staff are invited to join today’s Townhall at 1:00pm. Agenda: Updates on UBC initiatives related to COVID-19 – Rickey Brief Roundtable Updates – Associate Deans and Directors Questions & Answers To submit questions in advance or during the Townhall, please use Slido: Go to the website www.slido.com; Enter […]
LFS Today May 18, 2021
Webinars: Greenhouse Gas emissions from BC’s agricultural systems – Part 1 Today! LFS has been leading one of the most comprehensive studies on GHG emissions in BC’s agricultural systems. Researchers (Andy Black, Sean Smukler, Ningyu Quan, Lewis Fausak, Chantel Chizen, Patrick Pow, Paula R. Porto) and their collaborators will be sharing the results from five […]
LFS Today May 17, 2021
LFS in the News James Vercammen was quoted in an article about Young Agrarians, a program that helps new farmers get established, including matching would-be farmers with vacant land. James notes that “land matching isn’t a panacea” and in the article he says, “Lack of processing capacity, competition with lower-cost jurisdictions and the grocers’ preference […]
LFS Today May 14, 2021
Congratulations Gail Hammond! Congratulations to Gail Hammond who has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Teaching, with tenure, effective July 1, 2021. New Hire within the LFS Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies Program We are happy to announce that Iris Li will be joining us as our new Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies Program […]
LFS Today May 13, 2021
Joint Forestry and LFS Teaching Colloquy: Teaching and Learning Beyond COVID Join us at the Annual Teaching Colloquy on Friday, June 4. We are especially excited this year as we will be co-hosting and co-facilitating this upcoming Colloquy with the Faculty of Forestry. We look forward to having enriched discussions and exchanges with our Forestry colleagues. […]
LFS Today May 12, 2021
Webinars: Greenhouse Gas emissions from BC’s agricultural systems LFS has been leading one of the most comprehensive studies on GHG emissions in BC’s agricultural systems. Researchers (Andy Black, Sean Smukler, Maja Krzic, Ningyu Quan, Lewis Fausak, Chantel Chizen, Patrick Pow,,Paula R. Porto) and their collaborators will be sharing the results from five years of their […]
LFS Today May 11, 2021
2021 Summer Final Exam Requests DUE ALL SUMMER INSTRUCTORS: Submissions for 21S exam requests were due yesterday. If you have not yet done so, please complete the Examination Request Survey. Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the exam scheduling process and resources found online, (particularly the ‘resources’ link). If you have any questions […]
LFS Today May 10, 2021
LFS Learning Centre Lunch & Learn Series: Schedule for May The LFS Learning Centre hosts the Lunch & Learn series where ideas related to best practices in technology, teaching & learning, course design and student support are presented and discussed. We have been hosting these sessions virtually on Zoom every Friday since April 2020. Current attendees […]
LFS Today May 7, 2021
New Face in LFS Communications! We are happy to announce that Shannon Wong will be joining us as our new Communications Coordinator starting on Monday. She will be working closely with Karen Lee in creating compelling content for the Faculty’s websites, print materials and social media/digital communications. Having worked most recently as the Communications Coordinator for […]
LFS Today May 6, 2021
REMINDER: Final Grades are DUE (or past-due) Reminder to all instructors to be mindful of grade submission deadlines for term 2 courses; as per the FSC User Guide, page 16, grades are due 7 business days after exam date, unless the exam occurs within last 2 days of the exam period – then, the grades […]
LFS Today May 5, 2021
LFS Virtual Townhall – Today Today’s Townhall starts at 1:00pm. We have a guest speaker today – Tebogo Leepile, winner of the UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition and a PhD candidate in Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems (supervisors are Eduardo Jovel and Crystal Karakochuk). You are welcome to listen to her 3MT […]
LFS Today May 4, 2021
2021 Summer Final Exam Requests Are you teaching a course in the Summer 2021 Session? If so, please complete our Examination Request Survey to indicate whether or not an exam will be required for your course(s) no later than 4:00pm on Monday, May 10. It is important that your requests are received by this deadline […]
LFS Today May 3, 2021
Advisory: Apple Patches Critical macOS Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild – CVE-2021-30657 Read full details. The UBC Cybersecurity has learned of an actively-exploited critical 0-Day vulnerability in macOS versions prior to macOS 11.3. The zero-day flaw (CVE-2021-30657) has been observed being used in the wild by a variant of the Shlayer adware dropper as early […]