LFS Today Aug 30, 2022

News

Student Services receives 2022 President’s Staff Award for Wellbeing

A huge congratulations to the LFS Student Services team—Christine Klaray, Rob Kim, Thilini Leitan, Ella Wong, Bre Jakobsen and Bonita Perko—on receiving a 2022 President’s Staff Award for developing the innovative student-centered program ROOTSS (Reach Out, Orientation, Transition & Study Skills).

The Student Services team developed ROOTSS to support new-to-LFS students throughout their first year through academic success, social connection and wellbeing.

Notably, the team launched ROOTSS over a year in advance to accommodate more than 500 students incoming during the pandemic—a time when social connection and wellbeing were paramount to student success.

Learn more and see the full list of recipients

Tech Tip Tuesday: Uploading Syllabus on Canvas

Uploading your syllabus on the syllabus page in Canvas allows it to appear on the LFS Course Directory. Your syllabus cannot include any personal information of students or TAs. This includes their non-UBC email ID and personal phone numbers that are not assigned by UBC or another professional organization.

The steps to add syllabus to the Canvas syllabus page are listed in this documentation: https://lc.landfood.ubc.ca/resources/software/canvas/canvas-syllabus-instructions/

For more information on uploading your Syllabus on Canvas, please contact the LFS Learning Centre at it@landfood.ubc.ca

Hot Weather Warning!

Since we will be experiencing warmer weather this week, please use the following resources to ensure that you and your team are staying cool.

1. Heat Stress and Safety
2. Heat Stress Awareness Course
3. Alternative study spaces (Agora)

Events

Sept. 23 – Homegrown Innovation Challenge: webinar and virtual networking event

The team at the Weston Family Foundation will host a bilingual webinar and virtual networking session for anyone interested in the Homegrown Innovation Challenge. The event is designed for current grantees, as well as prospective applicants and others with an interest in applying to the next part of our Challenge, the Shepherd Phase (deadline: December 20, 2022.) Following a brief overview of the objective of the Shepherd Phase, as well as related policy, eligibility and selection criteria, participants will be divided into small groups according to subject matter and/or expertise whereby they will have an opportunity to interact directly with one another with a view to exchanging ideas and building innovation teams.

Friday, September 23

1:00 – 4:00 PM EDT

Register

For more information on the Homegrown Innovation Challenge, please visit homegrownchallenge.ca

Deadlines

Sept. 15 – LFS Internal Research Grant Program (IRGP) 2022 Application

The Faculty of Land and Food Systems Internal Research Grant Program (IRGP) provides short-term support for the development of innovative, multidisciplinary research that will eventually form the basis of a research proposal submitted to one of the Tri-Agency funding organizations (i.e. NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC) or the UBC TLEF program. The overall aim of the IRGP is to identify and support innovative, early-stage research within LFS which will enable preliminary data to be gathered for the purpose of strengthening the calibre and competitiveness of research proposals submitted to the Tri-Agency and TLEF funding competitions from LFS.

The LFS IRGP encourages collaborative multidisciplinary submissions: this year’s IRGP also aims to spark new collaborations with units and faculties external to LFS, hence applicant teams must be comprised of a lead PI from LFS and at least one other co-applicant from outside LFS with whom the PI has never worked before. The lead, and at least one other co-applicant, must be full-time LFS faculty members with a minimum of 12-month appointments.

This year’s IRGP applications must address one or more of the five priority areas from the current LFS Action Plan, Navigating Change: Addressing climate change and resilient food systems; Ending hunger and improving food security; Enhancing regional agriculture for sustainable cities; Promoting nutrition and wellbeing for healthier communities; Ensuring the health and welfare of animals in society.

Support will only be provided for the direct costs of research that are essential to the completion of the proposed research, including: stipend and salary support for undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, research-related travel, and material supplies or consumables. This year’s IRGP applications must include support for at least one undergraduate student.

Applications (application form plus all attachments submitted as a single PDF file) for this funding call should be sent to lfs.research@ubc.ca by Monday, September 15 at 5pm.

Full details on the IRGP program including the Application Form can be found here.

Oct. 14 – Health Innovation Funding Investment (HIFI) Awards

UBC Health invites faculty members at UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan to submit a proposal for the Health Innovation Funding Investment (HIFI) Awards by October 14, 2022.

UBC Health is offering up to $25,000 to faculty members who are collaborating across faculties, disciplines, and campuses to develop new teams, pursue new ideas, or translate findings from innovative health-related research.

In addition to the general, open call for HIFI, UBC Health is inviting applications that focus on initiatives which promote diversity and inclusion and have the potential to impact health equity across individuals, communities, and societies.

For more information on the call for proposal, visit the UBC Health website at https://health.ubc.ca/interdisciplinary-health-research/health-innovation-funding-investment-hifi-awards