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LFS Virtual Townhall – Today LFS faculty and staff are invited to today’s LFS Virtual Townhall, from 1:00-2:00pm. Agenda: Updates on UBC initiatives related to COVID-19 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 event […]

LFS in the News Associate Professor Siyun Wang was featured in an article by UBC News, in celebration of International Women’s Day: Women leading the way on COVID-19 research. Professor Sean Smukler was mentioned in an article for the National Observer: Agriculture key to meeting Paris goals, but documents suggest feds avoiding change.   Reminder: Summer Course […]

LFS in the News Professor Hannah Wittman was mentioned in an article for the National Observer: Why community-run food hubs could be the key to better food security. The article also appeared in the Toronto Star and Yahoo! News.   Safeguarding Your Research UBC has created a webpage to help researchers safeguard their research and scholarly […]

Mahsa Jessri Receives MSFHR Reach Award Assistant Professor Mahsa Jessri is a Reach Award Recipient from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. Mahsa will co-lead a large team of researchers on a project titled: Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH)-Heart and Stroke (HAS) Calculator. Congratulations! View the announcement here. Funding from this competition will create pathways from research evidence to […]

Share Your Feedback in the Workplace Preferences Survey As COVID-19 continues to impact the way we teach, perform research, and work, faculty and staff are invited to share feedback in the Workplace Preferences Survey by March 3. This survey is an opportunity to share feedback on your experiences in the workplace over the last year, […]

LFS Virtual Townhall – Today All LFS faculty and staff are invited to today’s LFS Virtual Townhall at 1:00pm. Agenda: Collaboration opportunities – Philippe Tortell, Professor and Head, Dept. of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences  Updates on UBC initiatives related to COVID-19 – Rickey Yada Roundtable updates from Associate Deans and Directors Questions & Answers To submit […]

LFS LC Lunch & Learn Series: Engaging and supporting all students in large and distributed classes with Simon Bates This session will be held on Friday, February 26th, 2021 at noon. When students transition to studying at university, they often find themselves in classes that are 10x larger than those they have known in high […]

Faculty Member Profile Updates Faculty members are invited to do yearly review of their profile pages on our Faculty website: https://www.landfood.ubc.ca/faculty/ These profiles are some of the most visited pages, and are an important tool for promoting the Faculty to potential students, media, and industry. Please take this opportunity to update any out-of-date or missing information. Please send any changes […]

Lunch & Learn Series: Developing an Equity Competency in Sustainable Food Systems Education: Exploring a New Model and Sharing Teaching Activities with Will Valley This session will be held on Friday, February 19, 2021 at noon. Addressing social inequities has been recognized as foundational to transforming food systems. Activists and scholars have critiqued food movements […]

LFS Townhall – Follow-up Early Alert support for studentsBrian Barth, Manager, Student Support Services from the VP Students Office presented at the LFS Virtual Townhall this week on Early Alert (EA). The EA Program allows student advising, faculty and support staff to clearly understand a student concern, and organize the most efficient reach-out. Here are […]

Lunch and Learn Series: Easy Ways to Improve Student Engagement with Universal Design for Learning This session will be held on Friday, February 12 at noon. Universal Design for Learning is an approach to give students multiple means for engagement, representation, action, and expression. Encapsulating such a diverse range within your course will help students […]

Announcement: New Senior Manager EDI and Indigeneity We are pleased to announce that we have created a new role, Senior Manager Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and Indigeneity, to support work across the Faculty of Land and Food Systems in this important area. This position will be shared with UBC’s Faculty of Applied Science. We […]

LFS Scholar Series: Food Engineering Speaker – Today Wednesday, February 3, 2021 – 4:00 p.m. (livestream) Join the LFS Scholar seminar series today! Guest Speaker: Dr. Levente Diosady, Food Engineering, University of Toronto Guest Seminar Topic: Process development and scale-up for salt fortification Prof. Levente Diosady, PhD, RD, is Professor Emeritus in Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry […]

LFS Scholar Series: Food Engineering Speaker Wednesday, February 3, 2021 – 4:00 p.m. (livestream) Join the LFS Scholar seminar series this week! Guest Speaker: Dr. Levente Diosady, Food Engineering, University of Toronto Guest Seminar Topic: Process development and scale-up for salt fortification Prof. Levente Diosady, PhD, RD, is Professor Emeritus in Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at […]

LFS Faculty Council Meeting The LFS Faculty Council Meeting (for faculty members) will take place today from 1:00 – 2:00 pm by Zoom.  Please note there will be curriculum discussion at the meeting so we would like to encourage you to attend. Tentative 2021 Vacation Schedules We encourage all units to start thinking about their […]

Lunch and Learn Series: Two-Stage Exams This session will be held on Friday, January 29 at noon. “In a two-stage exam, students first complete and turn in the exam individually and then, working in small groups, answer the exam questions again. During the group part students receive immediate, targeted feedback on their solutions from their […]

Call for Abstracts: LFS Graduate Student Conference The 8th annual Land and Food Systems Graduate Student Conference is currently accepting abstracts for our one-day conference via Zoom happening on Monday, March 15. This conference will include a plenary address, and both poster and oral presentations with associated competitions with cash awards! All graduate students, as […]

The Future of Agriculture – an alumniUBC Webinar From labour supply and supply chains to technology and trade, COVID-19 has brought forth challenges and opportunities to the agri-food industry. How have different sectors handled the suddenness of the pandemic? What are the positive and negative learnings from the past year and how will the different […]

Lunch and Learn Series: Lectures, Assessments, and Community  This session will be held on Friday, January 22 at noon. In this session we will reflect, share, and learn from each other about the past term.  We want to hear your personal experiences from teaching on the topics of lectures, assessments, and community.  We will also be […]

LFS Faculty Council Meeting The LFS Faculty Council Meeting (for faculty and sessionals) will take place on Thursday, Jan 28 from 1:00 – 2:00 pm by Zoom.  Please note there will be curriculum discussion at the meeting so we would like to encourage you to attend.  More details will follow.  Please mark your calendar. Lunch […]

LFS Virtual Townhall – Today All LFS faculty and staff are invited to the next LFS Virtual Townhall today at 1:00pm. Agenda: How to spot phishing attempts – LFS Learning Centre Updates on UBC initiatives related to COVID-19 Brief Roundtable Updates – Associate Deans and Directors Questions & Answers To submit questions in advance or […]

Reminder: LFS Curriculum Change – Jan 12 Deadline Time again to submit any Curriculum Change Proposals you are considering. Proposals can include a variety of changes to an LFS course or program, from changing the title of a course to adding a new program. Please forward your Curriculum Change requests to Virginia Frankian, cc to Zhaoming Xu, […]

LFS Check In/Out Surveys Some small changes to the Check in/out surveys will take effect this Friday, January 8 at 5pm. Please note that since UBC now require documentation of covid self-assessment daily for all workers, it will be important that everyone accessing LFS buildings to perform the check in survey in order to comply with […]

Term One Final Grades – please post…grades are past due If you taught a course that concluded in term one, as per the FSC User Guide, page 15, grades are due to be posted 7 business days after the exam date, unless the exam occurred within last 2 days of the exam period – then, […]