LFS Today Dec 14, 2021

 News  

2021 Winter Term 2 Final Exam Requests

Are you teaching a course in 2021 Winter Term 2?

If so, please complete our Examination Request Survey to indicate whether or not an exam will be required for your course(s) no later than 12:00pm on Wednesday, January 12, 2022. It is important that your requests are received by this deadline to ensure your exam(s) are scheduled by UBC Scheduling Services. Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the exam scheduling process and resources found online, (particularly the ‘resources’ link). If you have any questions or feedback, please contact LFS Scheduling Services at lfs.scheduling@ubc.ca.

Random Acts of Recognition

Congratulations to Random Acts of Recognition recipients:

LFS Student Ambassadors Maddy Huehn, Afnan Ali and Yolanda Masacha for their efforts in programming the Taste of LFS Virtual Open House for prospective students, which took place from Nov 22 – 27. This week-long series of student-led workshops, information sessions and more is meant to increase awareness of the Faculty and inspire students to apply to LFS. The Student Ambassadors created the custom workshops, updated the website, prepared the social media assets, recruited student and faculty volunteers, promoted the event to our recruitment colleagues and counsellor community, and helped to host over a dozen sessions throughout the week. You all did an amazing job and have been exceptional representatives of the Faculty! Congratulations!

Thank you to the following volunteers for organizing and helping out at last week’s Holiday Party:
Rob Kim, Barbara Hsiao, Andy Jeffries, Wayne Tamagi, Melanie Train, Karen Lee, Dan Naidu, Amelia Zhang, Gordon Ly, John Depuis, Pia Lim, Shannon Wong, Duncan McHugh, Xinyan Fan, Julie Wilson, Imelda Cheung, Sabrina Yan, Roxana Quinde, Brandon Oh, Roxy Fournier, Ivan Nesic

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.

Classroom AV Sep Consultations for 2021 W2

In anticipation of the Winter Term, the LFS Learning Centre will be hosting AV Consultation sessions for instructors, similar to the ones conducted in 2021 W1 term. If you plan on recording your lectures, we recommend you to have a conversation with us to ensure you are prepared for the term with the right equipment and setup ahead of time. The LFS Learning Centre team has also put together a set of resources, including how-to videos and documentations, to inform instructors of the recommended equipment and AV setup for recording lectures in their classrooms. This recommended setup can be set in any classroom and captures your slides and audio with the least complexity.

LFSLC Recommended Setup for Lecture Recording in Classrooms: https://lc.landfood.ubc.ca/lr/

Please click on the survey link below to book a training session where we will review the new AV equipment, test drive any new recording setup you are interested in trying out, and answer any questions you might have so that you will be ready for the first day of class. More dates in the first week of January will be added in the coming weeks.

Sign-up Survey: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_87mlKx5EUYZTb5s

You can review the equipment available to you in your classroom on the learning spaces website: https://learningspaces.ubc.ca/find-space

We will also be reaching out to instructors teaching in the Winter term to check-in about their requirements. In the meantime, we invite all instructors to explore the resources we have put together on our website and contact us if they need any assistance at it@landfood.ubc.ca

Tech Tip Tuesday

Widespread outages in internet services can affect numerous apps and websites at UBC. This can often lead to panic, especially during the final exam period. You can find the current information about the status of UBC’s enterprise services at hxxps://status.it.ubc.ca

Aside from critical notices and status, other events such as maintenance and scheduled outages are posted on the outage calendar linked on the site.

You can also follow UBCIT on Twitter: @UBCIToutages

For more information, contact the LFS Learning Centre at it@landfood.ubc.ca

 Events  

Dec. 15 – Sustainable Plant Nutrition Series: Advancing nutrient recycling and recovery in agriculture

FAO and the International Fertilizer Association (IFA) are pleased to invite you to the third webinar of their Sustainable Plant Nutrition Series: Advancing nutrient recycling and recovery in agriculture, taking place tomorrow (15 December) at 14:00-16:00 CET.

This new webinar will explore some of the main opportunities and challenges posed by nutrient recovery and recycling, and present key technologies and innovations shaping the sector.

Join us tomorrow to learn more from our experts!

Dec. 15 – Creating and Sharing Instructional Videos

This monthly workshop introduces Kaltura, a video platform for instructors and students to record and share video content within Canvas.

Wednesday, December 15
1-2pm
Online

Register here

Jan. 11 – UBC Wellbeing: Thinking Traps

This seminar allows participants to explore how our thoughts can cause decreases in productivity and passions. Participants will be able to explore complex views that define thoughts and action plans to overcome them.

At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to do the following:

• define cognitive thinking
• become aware of both your own and others’ negative thinking traps
• begin to see how both you and others fall into these thinking traps so easily and how they can lead to performance and behaviour issues
• how to reverse these thinking traps for yourself
• be able to help others reverse their thinking traps

The session is facilitated by Jonathan Zinck from UBC’s Employee and Family Assistance Program LifeWorks.

January 11, 2022
12-1pm
Zoom

Enroll here

 Deadlines  

Dec. 17 – Climate Education Grants

Climate Education Grants provide up to $5,000 to UBC Vancouver faculty members to incorporate climate change content and teaching approaches into existing undergraduate and graduate courses.

The program aims to improve the depth and delivery of climate change content in existing courses by integrating and/or bolstering topics such as climate adaptation and resilience, climate justice, climate science, climate economics, climate law, planning and policy, and complex systems thinking.

Apply today!

Jan. 28 – Work Learn International Undergraduate Research Awards

Are you looking for funding to hire international undergraduate students to work full-time on your research for Summer 2022? The Work Learn International Undergraduate Research Awards provides an award subsidy to hire international undergraduate students to work on your research projects while allowing students to explore workplace and research skills. These awards are valued at $6,000 and are distributed across seven Faculties/Schools at UBC Vacouver Campus.

The Faculty of Land & Food Systems has Ten (10) WLIURAs available for 2022.

Program timeline:

• Call for Research Project Proposals period: November 29, 2021 – January 28, 2022.
  • Note: Faculty members will need to submit a proposal(s) on UBC CareersOnline. A student can work with a faculty member to submit a proposal together.
• The Centre for Student Involvement and Careers (CIS&C) to send all research project proposals pertaining to the Faculty/School by Monday, February 7, 2022.
• Deadline for Faculty/School offices to submit their list of funded proposals: Friday, February 25, 2022.
• CSI&C will send funding decisions to faculty members by Tuesday, March 1, 2022.
• For faculty members who have not indicated an internal candidate for their position(s), it will be posted on UBC CareersOnline for students to apply from March 7 – 20, 2022.

Additional information about the program can be found on the Faculty and Staff webpage. Student eligibility information is available on Student Services website. LFS evaluation criteria and process are available on LFS Research Support website.

Please contact LFS Undergraduate Student Research Awards lfs.nserc-usra@ubc.ca if you have any questions.