LFS Today Apr 1, 2021 | LFS Intranet 2020

Holiday Closures

The university is closed tomorrow for Good Friday and on April 5 for Easter Monday. Have a safe break!

Congratulations to Tebogo Leepile – UBC 3MT winner!

Huge congratulations to Tebogo (Tebby) Leepile, PhD candidate (Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems) who won first place in UBC Vancouver’s 3 Minute Thesis Competition yesterday. Next up, Tebby will represent the university in the Western Regional Competitions in May. Her supervisors are Eduardo Jovel and Crystal Karakochuk, and her research talk was on the prevalence of anemia among San women and young children in rural Botswana. She also recently won first place in the 2021 Global Health Conference at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute for her oral presentation addressing the same topic.

UBC Sustainability Initiative: Climate Justice Webinar Series

What role can and should UBC play as we strive for climate justice? This webinar will include reflections on what climate justice means to the panelists and the role they feel that UBC and postsecondary institutions have in relation to climate justice.

Panel including Adriana Laurent (Projects Administrator, Climate Hub), Charles Menzies (member of Gitxaała Nation, Professor, Department of Anthropology), Jessica Dempsey (Associate Professor, Department of Geography), and Sharon Stein (Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Studies).

Free webinar with Q&A discussion.

Friday, April 9
1:30pm – 3:00pm
Register here.

21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge starts next Monday!

A reminder that from April 5 – 25, you can join with thousands of people on a shared journey of learning, expanding your knowledge, and charting a course of action to dismantle racism in our food system and our world!

By joining the challenge, you commit to deepening your understanding of, and willingness to confront, racism for twenty-one consecutive days in April of 2021. The Challenge will raise your awareness, change your understanding and shift the way you behave.

Learn more about the challenge and register: https://foodsolutionsne.org/21-day-racial-equity-habit-building-challenge/

CPS 2021 Research Symposium Webinar Series

The Center for Produce Safety 2021 Research Symposium has announced its research projects that will be presented. This event takes place in June and July this year, and is free to join online. To view the research projects, click here.

The event takes place on the following dates:

Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

To register for the event, visit the registration page.

Canadian Agricultural Economics Society Awards – Call for Nominations

The Canadian Agricultural Economics Society (CAES) recognizes the outstanding contributions of its members through its awards program. The program inspires professional excellence among students, early career professionals, and experienced members. A number of the awards have had their deadlines extended.

For submission guidelines and eligibility criteria for all awards please see https://caes-scae.ca/awards/

UNDERGRADUATE BOOK PRIZE
The “CAES Book Prize” is intended to recognize and encourage the achievement of undergraduate students in their study and application of agricultural, food or resource economics, or farm management, or related fields of study at the undergraduate level. Eligibility is limited to full-time students majoring or with a strong program emphasis in agricultural, food, or resource economics, or farm management at any Canadian university. Nominations must be made in writing by the chair of the department, or equivalent officer. One nomination (the winner) is accepted per institution. Nominations must include the winner’s full name, permanent mailing address, and the reason for his/her selection. Submit nominations to Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor at safesorg@uoguelph.ca by June 1, 2021.