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 News     Prepare your Pumpkins! Halloween is coming up and LFS is holding a pumpkin carving contest again to find out who can design the most creative pumpkin. The main criteria to win is creativity!  Faculty & staff will vote for the most creative jack-o-lanterns. Here are the rules: Be creative – to up your pumpkin […]

 News     COVID-19 Return-to-Campus Guidelines Update Please note the following COVID-19 updates for October 25, 2021: An updated version of the COVID-19 Return-to-Campus Guidelines (“the RTC Guidelines”) was released today to reflect evolving public health guidance. The October 25, 2021 version includes: Updated BCCDC Return to Campus Public Health Guidance (Attachment 2) including: BCCDC modelling that the benefit of routine asymptomatic testing […]

 News     LFS News Kristen Walker spoke about her work in tracking the aggressive behaviour of coyotes in Vancouver’s Stanley Park. On these behaviours stemming from human actions, Kristen says: “We’ve had reports of folks going in with raw chicken and cat food, throwing that in the bushes and trying to draw the coyotes out so they […]

      Contents Due Oct. 29 – Faculty & Staff to complete Employment Equity Survey LFS in the News LFS Community Dinner: To Gather At Last Teaching Theory Thursday UBC Susustainability Initiative Webinar: What’s at Stake? – Oct. 27 CIFST ALT*: A Virtual Showcase – Oct. 27   Due Oct. 29 – Faculty & Staff to […]

Random Acts of Recognition Congratulations to Random Acts of Recognition recipients: Shelley Small for her outstanding effort in helping sort out issues with awards payments. To nominate a faculty member, staff or graduate student that’s been doing an outstanding job or has gone above and beyond in some way, send an email to lfs.recognition@ubc.ca and tell us […]

LFS in the News James Vercammen discussed the food supply system in Canada. On its resiliency, James says: ““For the typical, reasonable income earner, nothing is changing too much. In fact, if anything, I’ve been telling people that I’m amazed that we came through COVID without much higher food prices. We’ve got pretty good resilience in […]

Final Notice: Course Expense Fund Requests due by Oct 15th Teaching an undergraduate course in Term 2 (Jan-April 2022)?Email your completed form to virginia.frankian@ubc.ca by Friday, October 15th. Course Expense Fund: For course expenses other than photocopying (e.g., laboratory supplies, field trip expenses, etc.), send in a request now if you plan to claim reimbursement […]

New Mandatory Training for LFS Students, Staff and Faculty To all LFS students, staff and faculty, a self- guided building orientation training will be made mandatory beginning Nov 1, 2021. This is to ensure that all incoming and existing members of the LFS community receive the proper orientation to the resources, safety features, UBC mandatory […]

Reminder: Course Expense Fund Requests – due October 15th Teaching an undergraduate course in Term 2 (Jan-April 2022)?Send in your detailed course expense requests now. Email your completed form to virginia.frankian@ubc.ca by October 15th. All course expenses must be requested and approved prior to the start of each term. Expendable laboratory supplies, field trip expenses, […]

LFS Virtual Townhall – recording For faculty and staff who missed last Friday’s Townhall, a video recording is available to view on the Intranet. This page is CWL-password protected. To view the Friday, Oct. 1 LFS Virtual Townhall – click here.   Random Acts of Recognition Congratulations to Random Acts of Recognition recipients: Eduardo Jovel, Dana-Lyn […]