LFS Today Apr 8, 2021

MFRE Speaker Series: Asian Development Bank in Agribusiness

Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Suzanne Gaboury was appointed Director General, Private Sector Operations Department of the Asian Development Bank in January 2021. Ms. Gaboury has more than 28 years of professional experience in private sector finance and emerging markets with extensive international networks and stakeholder relationships. She has driven total project investment value in excess of US$ 35 billion including transformational climate action projects in infrastructure / renewable energy, agribusiness value chain including forestry, and financial institutions sectors. Direct experience in more than 70 countries, including some 40 emerging economies.

Event Linkhttps://ubc.zoom.us/j/63198895621?pwd=TzlhTUdLMVlhR29WcVZSVFZjK0pKdz09

Meeting ID: 631 9889 5621
Passcode: 521521

 

Volunteers welcome! LFS Action Plan Committee


The Dean’s Office is looking for people with an interest in getting involved in the Faculty’s 5-year strategic plan — our Action Plan. You are welcome to join the Implementation Committee to provide domain expertise, review our metrics for success, or give input into our short-term actions that were presented at our Townhall on March 24. The commitment can be short-term or long-term.

View the Action Plan and watch Rickey’s presentation:

Public website: View the Action Plan, including the full list of goals and actions:
https://www.landfood.ubc.ca/action-plan/
 
LFS Intranet: For faculty and staff who want to watch the Townhall launch presentation:
https://my.landfood.ubc.ca/other/action-plan/

If you have any questions or want to discuss ways to get involved, feel free to contact Karen (karen.lee98@ubc.ca).
 

 

Lunch & Learn Series with Nina von Keyserlingk – Friday

This session will be held on Friday, April 9, at noon

The Three S’s: Students + Skills (and a bit of passion for spice) = Success with Nina von Keyserlingk
 
In this session of Lunch & Learn, Professor Nina von Keyserlingk will lead a discussion on her approach to facilitating learning in the courses that she teaches in Applied Animal Biology. Her conversations will include anecdotes from her numerous conversations with her sister, Gesa von Keyserlingk, who is Head of Science at Killarney Secondary School, which have helped shape and inform her teaching over the last 20 years.
 
Join Nina and the Learning Centre team this Friday to explore and discuss her approach to teaching.

To register for this session, visit:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1
 
Follow the LFS Learning Centre’s Lunch and Learn Series on the LC website and Twitter channel.

 

Teaching Theory Thursday

Instructors/facilitators can use the previous building blocks to make their teaching/training more effective, efficient, and enjoyable, but they also offer learners tools to organise and carry out their own learning processes in more effective, efficient, and enjoyable ways. Teach learners how to organise, monitor, evaluate, and adjust their own learning process (i.e., self-regulate) and which learning strategies to use when they study independently.”
– Surma et al, 2020, Web link

 
Brought to you from the Learning Centre
 

 

Media Coverage 


Media picked up Frederik Noack’s collaborative study that appeared in Environmental Research Letters. Titled Saving the world from your couch: The heterogeneous medium-run benefits of COVID-19 lockdowns on air pollution, research findings from 162 countries show air pollution did not decrease everywhere during shutdowns brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study was a collaboration between UBC, University of Lausanne, University of Zurich, University of Manchester, University of Bologna, the Enterprise for Society (E4S) Center, and London School of Economics and Political Science.

Media coverage:
Global News Hour at 6, Vancouver is AwesomeInfoTel News India Education Diary

 

Candidates for Environmental Governance and Business


Forest Resources Management and the School of Public Policy & Global Affairs welcome feedback on the Assistant Professor of Environmental Governance and Business candidate interviews. This position is part of UBC’s Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions (IBioS) cluster hire.

The first of five candidates is Dr. Marin Skidmore, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Nelson Center for the Environment and Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She will be presenting her research and vision seminar on April 8th at 1:00-2:15 pm and teaching demonstration on April 9th at 2:00-3:00 pm.  

Please find the details including the Zoom at https://bit.ly/3cJOvJE.

 

KIN 464 Project is Recruiting Faculty & Staff


Kinesiology 464 students are conducting a study in cohesion with UBC BodyWorks about addressing barriers to physical activity for adults. 
 
This study aims to make physical activity more accessible to faculty/staff of UBC. Participating in this study would allow for faculty to voice their concerns about barriers to exercise that they experience, and contribute to the wellness of the UBC community. We hope to gather detailed knowledge in order to find realistic solutions to these barriers. 
 
We are looking for individuals who are:

  • Faculty/staff 
  • Between the ages of 40-60
  • Occupation requires them to be sedentary 
  • Willing to participate in a 1 to 1, 45-60 minute interview over zoom

To those who are interested in participating in this study, please email jshivani@student.ubc.ca stating your name, faculty, and availability between now and April 11. 

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