LFS Today Aug 8, 2022

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Random Acts of Recognition

Congratulations to Random Acts of Recognition recipients:

• Melina Biron for her quick response in troubleshooting irrigation issues.
• Kudos to Nadia Snyman for successfully co-facilitating a webinar to support LFS students with their Work Learn applications last Thursday. Nadia collaborated with Rob Kim to develop the session content. Nadia took care of all the advertising, Instagram posts, and email communication while integrating it with the ROOTSS Canvas Career Module. This resulted in the most successful iteration of this workshop—elevating the material with her perspective—leading to the participation of 30 students
• Juli Carrillo, Quentin Geissmann, and Carly McGregor all worked to provide the funds and resources needed to put together two brand new picnic tables in the MacMillan Courtyard. A huge thanks to them for all their efforts as these tables will be put to use for many years and by many faculty, staff, and students who will no doubt appreciate a nice outdoor space to eat and chat.
• Brock Williams, PhD Candidate (HUNU), for his initiative and willingness to help others on his team with so many tasks outside of his ‘job description’ – and always bringing a positive energy and contagious enthusiasm. Thank you Brock – you’re a star and we are grateful for you!

To nominate a faculty member, staff or graduate student that’s been doing an outstanding job or has gone above and beyond in some way, send an email to lfs.recognition@ubc.ca and tell us why this person should be recognized. We’ll send them a $6 Starbucks gift card and acknowledge their good work in LFS Today.

EDI.I Spotlight: Beatrix Potter, Mycologist: “Peter Rabbit” Creator’s Little-Known Scientific Studies and Illustrations of Mushrooms

Beatrix Potter (July 28, 1866–December 22, 1943) is one of the most beloved and influential storytellers of all time. The Tale of Peter Rabbit and her other gloriously illustrated children’s books tickle the human imagination through the fantastical aliveness of nature and its creatures, in a spirit partway between Aesop and Mary Oliver, between Tolkien and Thoreau. At a time when women had no right to vote and virtually no access to higher education, very rarely owned property and were themselves considered the property of their husbands, Potter became a commercially successful writer and artist, using the royalties from her books to purchase her famed Hill Top Farm, where she lived simply and with great love for the land for the remaining four decades of her life.

But no aspect of Potter’s kaleidoscopic genius is more fascinating than her vastly underappreciated contribution to science and natural history, which comes to life in Linda Lear’s altogether magnificent Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature (public library) — by far the best book on Potter and one of the finest biographies ever written, Lear’s prose itself a supreme work of art.

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Events

Aug. 22 – Creating Multiple Choice Questions for Higher Order Learning

This event is part of the CTLT Summer Institute, taking place from August 22–26, 2022.

Are you using multiple choice questions to their full capacity?

We all know that multiple choice questions can be a powerful component of your assessment and pedagogical strategies. They can save time and support consistency in marking. They can also be useful for piquing student interest, promoting classroom interaction (both in-person and online!), and assessing prior, formative and even summative learning.

Is there a learning outcome or content that you are struggling to assess and wonder if a multiple choice question might work? Bring that outcome or content and the questions/approaches you have used in the past, and let’s explore if and how a multiple-choice question might work.

Facilitators:

• Carrie Hunter, Curriculum Consultant, CTLT
• Judy Chan, Faculty Associate, Faculty Liaison (Land and Food Systems)

Monday, August 22

1:00pm – 2:30pm

Learn more and register

Sept. 6 to 8 – Ready Week

Don’t miss UBC’s first Ready Week (Sept 6-8, 2022). Stop by, enjoy the nice weather and learn more about personal emergency preparedness!

September 6 – Imagine Day @ Main Mall, 1-4 pm

Look for the SRS emergency management booth on Imagine Day to learn more about how to be prepared for an emergency.

​​​​​​​September 7-8 – Quake Cottage @ University Commons outside the Nest, 9 am –3 pm.

Experience a big magnitude earthquake by riding the Quake Cottage. Make sure to collect free items to add to your emergency kit.

Deadlines

Aug. 17 – Advance Knowledge in Health Research, Care, Systems or Outcomes

CIHR’s Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential for important advances in fundamental or applied health-related knowledge, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes by supporting projects of research proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers in all areas of health. The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, and/or high-risk lines of inquiry or knowledge translation approaches.

Register by August 17. Full application due September 14.

Learn more