LFS Today Apr 13, 2021
By imelda cheung on April 13, 2021
Share Your Experiences Navigating Change
In order to work well, we must be well. At UBC, we are committed to strengthening the resilience and wellbeing of our workforce while increasing capacity to navigate change. During the past unprecedented year, LFS has continued to collaborate with central HR and the LFS Mental Wellbeing Working Group to support staff and faculty resilience and wellbeing amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
We want to hear from you. We invite you to take five minutes to complete the Change and Wellbeing Survey. Your responses are confidential and your input will help us get create better support systems and resources for faculty and staff members at LFS.
The Change and Wellbeing Survey is open from April 13-27.
Take the survey:
https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6gpZ8KelnhGxdpc
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Barbara Hsiao at Barbara.hsiao@ubc.ca. |
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LFS 400 Listening Party Tomorrow
The faculty’s podcast course, LFS 400, will be having a listening party on the last day of class to listen to student’s audio stories and celebrate their achievement. Podcast topics include the marketing of probiotics, Indigenous dietetics, gestational diabetes, and climate change’s effect on migration.
Class is on Wednesday, April 14th at 10:30am.
Please contact Duncan (duncan.mchugh@ubc.ca) for a Zoom link. Info on LFS 400 here: https://lfs400.landfood.ubc.ca |
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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.
Forestry and LFS Teaching Colloquy
Friday, June 4
10am-12:30 pm
To RSVP and view the Agenda: click here.
Visit the Learning Centre website.
Questions and suggestions? Please contact: Judy.Chan@ubc.ca (LFS) or Michelle.Zeng@ubc.ca (Forestry) |
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Tech Tip Tuesday by LFS Learning Centre
You can add time for students with accommodations via Canvas Quizzes. Create your Canvas Quiz and under the ‘Details’ tab, scroll down to the ‘Assign’ section. Create a new assignment group for the students with the time accommodations. While assigning the timing for the quiz, add the different time deadlines for the 2 groups (Accommodation students, everyone else).
For more information, contact us at it@landfood.ubc.ca and follow us on the Learning Centre Twitter account and Website. |
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$2000 Ivarson Soil Science Scholarship
The Karl C. Ivarson Soil Science Scholarship is for full-time graduate students, and the deadline to apply is April 23, 2021.
Eligible applicants:
- Candidates must hold Canadian citizenship or Permanent Resident status in Canada.
- Candidates must be registered full-time in a masters or doctorate program in the area of soil science (agriculture, agro-ecology, resource management, environment, geology or other related disciplines) at a recognized Canadian university. Note: A letter from the university confirming enrolment is required to be submitted in support of the application by the deadline, otherwise the application will be rejected.
- Candidates must be entering the second or subsequent years of graduate studies in soil science (agriculture, agro-ecology, resource management, environment, geology or other related disciplines).
- Previous recipients of this scholarship are not eligible for subsequent awards.
For full details, visit the Canadian Foundation for Food and Agricultural Education website. |
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Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network new CEO
The Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network (CAAIN) has hired Kerry Wright as its permanent Chief Executive Officer.
Ms. Wright joins CAAIN after a career in the agri-food sector with leadership roles at the Beef Information Centre, the Mallot Creek Group, and, most recently, Champion Petfoods, where she was Vice President of Technical Product Development and Innovation.
She begins on Monday, April 12. Over the coming weeks the Network will begin announcing winners of its Closed Competition while also moving to the final stage of the Open Competition it launched in early December.
The Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network is a not-for-profit company launched in July 2019 with a $49.5-million Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada award and a mission to support the creation of technological solutions for the most challenging problems facing Canada’s agri-food sector. |
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