LFS Today Jan 20, 2022

 News  

LFS Virtual Townhall is tomorrow!

All faculty and staff are invited to join tomorrow’s Townhall from noon-1pm.

Agenda

• 12:00-12:05 pm – Welcome and land acknowledgements – Rickey Yada
• 12:05-12:20 pm – Student support services in LFS – Nicole Adoranti, Embedded Counsellor in LFS and Forestry
• 12:20-12:35 pm –  UBC’s Campus Vision 2050: An opportunity to imagine the university campus and community of the future –  Madeleine Zammar,  Manager, Engagement and Joanne Proft, Associate Director of Community Planning, UBC Campus + Community Planning,
• 12:35-12:40 pm – Welcome new employees
• 12:40-1:00pm – Roundtable updates – Rickey, Associate Deans, Directors

If you need the Zoom meeting link, please contact Karen at Karen.lee98@ubc.ca.

To submit questions in advance or during the Townhall, please use Slido:

1. Go to the website www.sli.do;
2. Enter event code ‘LFS’ to post a question or vote for an existing one.

Due Feb. 21: Return to Campus – Quick Survey

The University is seeking input from faculty, staff and student leaders (LFS|US and GSS) about a return to in-person learning.

You may have seen this invitation from your supervisor yesterday – faculty and staff are encouraged to fill in a short survey to share their thoughts about the possible return to mostly in-person instruction on February 7, 2022. The University would like to know how to improve confidence for those who are feeling anxious about returning on Feb. 7.

All responses should be submitted by 9am on Friday, January 21, and they will remain anonymous. I will collect this information and share it with the senior administration at the University.

Survey: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a5UiBKsrtf8OdW6

I want to thank everyone for their hard work over the past two years, and for continuing to be flexible during the course of the pandemic.

Cheers,
Rickey Yada

Call for Nominations – International Day of Women & Girls in Science

In the days leading up to the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on Friday, February 11, LFS will be highlighting five students on our social media channels and website. We are looking for nominations from faculty and staff of students who have demonstrated community leadership, academic excellence, or who have overcome barriers to study at UBC.

If you’d like to nominate an undergraduate or graduate student who self-identifies as a woman, please send their contact information to lfs.today@ubc.ca by Tuesday, January 25 at 10am. We will select five people and reach out to profile them.

If you have any questions, please contact:
Shannon Wong
LFS Communications Coordinator
shannon.wong@ubc.ca

Teaching Theory Thursday – Web Conferencing Narration

Whether you are doing an annotation activity or trying to find and load your PowerPoint file in Zoom, always narrate what you are doing and what is going on. For example, “I am going to load my PowerPoint now.” This helps fill the silence to avoid students not knowing why you’ve gone silent or thinking their sound has cut out.

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 Events  

Today – Research Seminar

Joséphine Gantois, Candidate for Assistant Professor in Human Dimensions of Biodiversity Conservation
Research Seminar:  Bridging economics and ecology for elucidating humans’ ecological footprint across natural and agricultural systems
January 20, 10:30am – 12:00pm

Register here

Feb. 8 – UBC Reads Sustainability with Aja Barber

Featuring Aja Barbers new book, Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism

A call to action for consumers everywhere, Consumed asks us to look at how and why we buy what we buy, how it’s created, who it benefits, and how we can solve the problems created by a wasteful system. Barber calls for change within an industry that regularly overreaches with abandon, creating real imbalances in the environment and the lives of those who do the work – often in unsafe conditions for very low pay – and the billionaires who receive the most profit.
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
12:00 – 1:30 PM PST

Register here

 Deadlines  

Jan. 28 – Call for Research Proposals: 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.

Mar. 4 – Staff: Submit Professional Fund claims

Don’t forget to use available professional development (PD) funding and submit claims in Workday by Mar. 4. PD funds are intended to support learning activities that will enhance your workplace knowledge or skills and support your career growth at the university.

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