LFS Today Feb 15, 2022
By imelda cheung on February 15, 2022
When Are 2021 Tax Slips Available?
UBC issues online tax slips as PDFs that faculty, staff and student employees can download through Workday. They are identical to the printed format and are accepted by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) when filing your taxes.
T4 and T4A tax slips for the 2021 tax year will be available through Workday on or before February 28, 2022. How do I find my T4? (CWL-login required) |
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Tech Tip Tuesday: Viewing Your Requests Sent to it@landfood.ubc.ca
Did you know that you can view your current and past requests sent to the Learning Centre at it@landfood.ubc.ca? To do so, go to https://ubc.service-now.com/selfservice?id=ubcit_tickets, then login with your CWL ID.
ServiceNow is the request ticketing system used by the LFS Learning Centre, as well as central units such as UBCIT and CTLT. The ServiceNow portal includes the View My Tickets page, which will display all of your requests, not just the ones that you sent to the Learning Centre.
In addition to your tickets, the https://ubc.service-now.com/selfservice site provides access to other useful resources such as the IT and Workday knowledge FAQs. |
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New Academic Integrity website!
The new Academic Integrity website at UBC has been launched by the VP, Academic and Provost Office. This site showcases information and resources about academic integrity. Teaching and promoting academic integrity and responding to academic misconduct allegations are all part of UBC’s culture of academic integrity.
Instructors and teaching assistants are students’ primary sources for learning about academic integrity. Students have varying levels of awareness about UBC’s standards for academic integrity due to their diverse past educational experiences, which is why teaching academic integrity is a crucial step in making them responsible and thriving members of the learning community.
Visit the Teaching Academic Integrity page to read more on designing a classroom culture that cultivates and rewards academic integrity at https://academicintegrity.ubc.ca/academic-integrity-in-teaching-and-learning/teaching-academic-integrity/
If you would like to share your thoughts for further topics or ideas relating to academic integrity at UBC, please visit https://academicintegrity.ubc.ca/share-your-thoughts/. |
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Weston Family Foundation Homegrown Innovation Challenge
In a climate-changing world, Canada’s high dependence on imported fresh fruits and vegetables makes it vulnerable to food systems disruption. By solving the interconnected challenges that currently prevent out-of-season production at scale, the Homegrown Innovation Challenge will catalyze a range of solutions relevant to a broad array of fruit and vegetable crops in Canada and around the world. The initiative launched in February 2022 and an innovation team that progresses through all challenge phases and ultimately claims the final awards would receive up to $8 million in funding to develop and scale their innovation. There are two ways to apply for the Homegrown Innovation Challenge. Learn more http://homegrownchallenge.ca/ |
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Feb. 16 to Mar. 9 – Weekly mindfulness sessions
If you have been looking for a routine to improve your ability to manage stress, feel more connected, or get your morning started with an exercise to improve focus, join your community to practice mindfulness.
Mindfulness meditation is a secular exercise where you pay attention to the present moment by focusing on breath, sound, body sensations and other focal points.
In the training you will practice different forms of mindfulness exercises in each class including:
- Mindfulness meditations
- Loving-kindness meditations
- Gratitude practices
- Self-compassion practices
Your Facilitator: Aisha Tejani is a Workplace Wellbeing Associate with Human Resources at UBC and has taught mindfulness for 5 years to over 1,800 participants.
Dates: Sessions will take place on Wednesdays until March 9, 2022.
Attendance: Sessions will be drop-in and can be attended as single sessions or multiple sessions. Each class will cover different material.
Who is this for? Any staff or faculty who would like to practice mindfulness. All levels of experience welcomed.
Time: 12:00 – 12:15 pm
Register here |
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Feb. 16 – Making Markets and Valuing Natures in a Himalayan ‘Frontier’
Popular representations of Nepal’s Jumla district have undergone a significant shift over the last decade. Long characterized as economically backward, unproductive and food scarce, the mountainous district is today celebrated as a site of newfound ‘green’ value. Jumla’s largely chemical-free, biodiverse agroecologies have been reframed as a source of market opportunities, from agrotourism and organic produce to novel “superfoods” and plant genetic resources. These optimistic sustainable development narratives can also, however, obscure important tensions between different agendas for development and conservation in the region. This talk will explore how the agricultural policies and projects of overlapping authorities intersect and come into conflict in the district. Highlighting limitations in both market-based conservation strategies and depoliticized narratives of environmental stewardship, it will also consider emergent alternative visions for agrarian development and ‘food sovereignty’ in the region.
Wednesday, February 16, 6 – 7:30pm
Learn more and register here |
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Feb. 17 – IRES Faculty Seminar: Reflections on COP26 in Glasgow
Abstract:
Kathryn Harrison recently attended COP26 in Glasgow as one of eight UBC delegates (live tweets from @profkharrison), and previously attended COP25 in Madrid. She will reflect on her attendance at COP26 in Glasgow, which followed the first working group report from the IPCC’s sixth assessment, and was the first critical “ratchet” period where countries are expected to increase their target ambition under the Paris Agreement. What happened at COP26 and what’s next in international negotiations in the context of the Paris Agreement? What are the implications of COP26 (and COP27 this year) for Canadian climate policy and for Canada’s economy, especially fossil fuel exports?
Bio:
Kathryn Harrison is a Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. She received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering before completing her PhD in Political Science. Before entering academia, Dr. Harrison worked as a policy analyst for both Environment Canada and the United States Congress. She has published widely on Canadian and US environmental and climate policy. Dr. Harrison has advised governments from the local to international level, and is currently chair of the Expert Advisory Panel on climate mitigation of the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices.
Time: 12:30 to 1:30pm (Pacific Standard Time)
Location: AERL Theatre, Room 120 (2202 Main Mall)
Register here for Zoom link |
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Mar. 11 – Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award – Call for nominations
In recognition of the valuable role that Teaching Assistants play in our programs, UBC annually awards nineteen Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards. The calls for nominations for the Killam GTA Award for the Faculty of Land and Food Systems are open and can be submitted by any student, faculty or staff who have worked closely with the TA they are nominating.
Eligibility: The award is open to any UBC Graduate Teaching Assistant who acts or has acted in this position at UBC Vancouver during the current and/or preceding academic year (2021-22 and/or 2020-21).
Nomination Process: Nominations are encouraged from faculty supervisors (professors, senior laboratory instructors) of the Graduate Teaching Assistant nominee, from colleagues working closely with the nominee, and from the students who attended the nominee’s class or laboratory. TAs can also self-nominate for the award. Nominations are being collected via a webform.
Nominations can be submitted until Friday, March 11, 2022. More information on the award criteria and the nomination form can be found on the Killam GTA Award page. If you have questions about the nomination process, please contact Judy Chan, LFS Learning Centre (Judy.Chan@ubc.ca). |
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Mar. 18 – Invitation for Interdisciplinary Research at Bournemouth University (UK)
From Alastair Morrison, Head of International Partnerships, Global Engagement Hub, Bournemouth University (GlobalBU@bournemouth.ac.uk):
I am writing to you from Bournemouth University in the UK, and wanted to get in touch to let you know about some new areas of interdisciplinary research that we are developing, building on current expertise.
We are aware that several of our colleagues have links with your university, including Professor Vanora Hundley who has links to the School of Population Health, and Professor Mike Silk who has plans to apply for funding to link with the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Sport & Sustainability.
I would be keen to explore whether we could discuss expanding our current collaboration to some new areas we are focusing investment in, which are also aligned to support UK Research Council priorities (further information on these areas is at the end of this email below):
- Animation, Simulation & Visualisation
- Assistive Technology
- Sustainability, Low Carbon Technology & Materials Science
- Medical Science
We are aware that University of British Columbia has leading expertise in the areas mentioned above, and we can see much overlap with the work that you do, particularly through medicine.
In 2019 we launched a Global Visiting Fellowship Scheme that could provide funding for researchers from UBC to spend time undertaking research at Bournemouth University. The Scheme has recently launched again, and has a deadline of 18th March 2022. This opportunity could provide funding for researchers from UBC to spend time undertaking research at BU, facilitating deeper relationship building between our institutions, along with research collaboration and wider networking opportunities. We would be grateful if your colleagues could disseminate this opportunity across UBC.
I would appreciate your thoughts on the possibilities to explore further collaboration in any of these areas. I would be happy to organise an online meeting to discuss further if that would be useful. |
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