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LFS Holiday Café Don’t forget, the LFS Holiday Café is happening this Wednesday, December 16 at 3:00pm! All faculty, staff and graduate students are invited. What you can expect during this virtual event: A year’s end message from Dean Rickey Yada. A quick-round Research Café, where our new faculty members will present: Gurcharn Brar, Matias Margulis, Risa Sargent, Tamara […]

          Building Hours and Access The current MCML and FNH building hours are 7AM-6PM Monday to Friday and closed on weekends. Under the current stage of resumption, weekend access is not openly available due to the lack of custodial services during these periods. Please be aware that starting Saturday, December 19, […]

LFS Podcast Club – Week 1 The inaugural edition of the LFS Podcast Club (working title) will meet on Friday, December 11 at 3pm. We will discuss the following pieces: Heavyweight, Episode 2: “Gregor” by Jonathan Goldstein [44 mins] This American Life: “Tattoos and Memories and Dead Skin on Trial” by Emily Hsiao [13mins] This American Life: “The […]

Last Day to Submit Nominations for the LFS Service Awards Nominations are now open online for the Faculty of Land and Food Systems outstanding service awards, including the Shynkaryk Service Award (staff), Richards Service Award (faculty) and Graduate Student Service Award. Please do not email your nominations. The deadline for nominations is today, at day’s end. LFS […]

LFS Virtual Townhall – Today Based on feedback you provided about topics of interest, UBC Human Resources is returning today to discuss maintaining social wellbeing. All faculty and staff are invited to join today’s Townhall from 1:00-2:00pm. Agenda: Supporting Social Wellbeing Amidst Remote Work – Guest speakers from UBC Human Resources: Marianne Boyles, Organizational Change […]

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, […]

Daylight Savings Time Ends This Sunday Don’t forget, Daylight Saving Time ends on November 1 – clocks “fall back” one hour at 2:00am. Special Presentation: Amp Up Your Media Impact, Nov. 12 All faculty members are invited to a Media Relations special presentation to learn how carefully crafted media outreach can make an impact beyond the […]

LFS Virtual Townhall – Today All faculty and staff are invited to today’s LFS Virtual Townhall from 1:00-2:00pm. Agenda: United Way Campaign: Guests Cherry Chen, Campaign Associate – Workplace Campaign & Soraya Bellou, UBC Science alumna and medical student Mental Health Booster Exercises: Mini-workshop led by Miranda Massie, UBC Workplace Wellbeing Practices & Learning Consultant Brief […]

FNH Graduate Seminar This week’s seminar will feature a guest presentation, and all LFS students, faculty and staff are invited! When: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 – 4:00pm Title: Role of the microbiome in healthy living and aging Speaker: Dr. Brett Finlay, UBC Peter Wall Distinguished Professor, CIFAR Senior Fellow, Michael Smith Laboratories Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/63571767672?pwd=MHZGNDF3VG40Z3VzcFF4d1Q4T3IyUT09 Meeting […]

Workday HR & Finance Office Hours – Today The LFS HR and Finance teams are continuously striving to best support you as you get ready for Workday Go-live on Nov 2! As such, we have organized weekly “Office Hours” with HR & Finance team members. The purpose of these sessions is to provide you a […]

UBC Biodiversity Solutions Cluster Hire – Five tenure-track positions LFS is part of the university’s biodiversity-themed cluster hire of five tenure-track positions. A new posting has gone public for the position of Assistant Professor in Human Dimensions of Biodiversity Conservation – this will be a joint hire between the LFS Food and Resource Economics Program […]

    LFS Check in/Check out Surveys We would like to give you a heads up that there will be some small changes to the LFS Check in and Check out survey questions starting today, Friday October 16 at 5pm. Name input (free text will be changed to First name, Last name) Time of entry/exit will […]

LFS Virtual Townhall – Today All 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 […]

Monday is Thanksgiving Don’t forget that Monday is a statutory holiday – enjoy the long weekend!   LFS Macmillan Studio & Video Innovation Lab The LFS LC is happy to announce that the LFS Macmillan Studio & Video Innovation Lab is open for production. The studio is your spot to make higher quality video, prepare […]

Course Expense Fund Requests – due October 15th – Link correction Find form and details at “Finance”. Look under Forms, then the link next to Teaching-Related Funding for more information, and find the form at Course Expenses Fund (MS Word). Thank you, and apologies. Reminder: LFS Curriculum Change – Oct 16 Deadline Time again to submit any Curriculum […]

MFRE Speaker Series Speaker: Nima Salmani, Director, Lyft Commodity Trading Ltd. Topic: Introduction to the Structure of Negotiation Date & Time: Tuesday, October 6, 5:45pm – 7:15pm Nima will give an introduction to the structure of negotiation from a practitioner’s point of view. Through small cases, students will follow the process of negotiation in a bilateral and multilateral setting. […]