LFS Today Dec 1, 2020

LFS Service Awards – Nomination Deadline This Friday

Nominations are now open online for the Faculty of Land and Food Systems outstanding service awards, including the Shynkaryk Service Award (staff), Richards Service Award (faculty) and Graduate Student Service Award. Please do not email your nominations. The deadline for nominations is Friday, December 4.

LFS Shynkaryk and Richards Awards

Nominees should be LFS staff or faculty members who meet the following criteria: consistently provides excellent service to students, faculty and staff, accomplished tasks with good humour and grace, works extremely well with others, and always goes one step further on every project. Nominations should include the name of the nominator, name of nominee and 3 or more reasons for the nomination (with examples).

LFS Graduate Student Service Award 

Nominees should be graduate students who meet the following criteria: provide services and / or leadership to fellow graduate students and the LFS community at large, and serve as exemplars to fellow grad students, faculty and staff or the faculty in general. Nominations should include the name of the nominator, name of nominee and 3 or more reasons for the nomination (with examples).

LFS in the News

A new study led by PhD student Benjamin Lecorps (Animal Welfare) was highlighted in the German news website, Der Hoftierarzt: New research shows pessimistic dairy calves are more prone to pain.

The article is in German but can be translated into English by your browser.

Lunch & Learn Office Hours: Canvas Mastery Paths with Adrian Granchelli and Patricia Hingston

This session will be held on Friday, December 4th, 2020 at noon.

Add a more personalized learning path to your course with Canvas Mastery Paths. You can allow for different instruction based upon how a student performs on an assignment. This can increase student choice and meet learners where they are. We will learn how-to implement mastery paths and discuss how it could be used.

Explore gamification: Mastery Paths can also be used to game assignments – used in this way students can repeat a quiz a until they perfect it and only then are they allowed to progress to the next assignment.  Patricia will share her experience in utilizing Mastery Paths in this way.

Come explore the Canvas Mastery Paths and the ways in which it can help you with your course.

To register for the session, please visit https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1

MacCarthy Lecture in Pest Management

Please join us for the 28th Annual MacCarthy Lecture in Pest Management:

Lessons from the last 10 years of Drosophila suzukii: Moving forward with management
Monday, December 7, 1:00-2:30 pm PST
Speaker: Dr. Hannah Burrack, North Carolina State University

This year the talk will be virtual, free, and open to all as part of the BC Agricultural Climate Adaptation Research Network 2020 Provincial Workshop. Register for the virtual talk at bcacarn.com/swdtalk.

Additional sessions during the virtual workshop will include applied research webinars for berry and vegetable producers and discussions on integrated pest management for spotted wing drosophila. Full workshop details, including multi-session registration, can be found here: https://www.bcacarn.com/rushmore_event/2020-virtual-workshop/