LFS Today Jan 21, 2022

 News  

USI Sustainability Scholars Program and CSFS

The USI Sustainability Scholars Program is accepting applications from graduate students for summer 2022. The Centre for Sustainable Food Systems (CSFS) currently has a project in the program, which involves working with Indigenous knowledge keepers. The project aims to support Indigenous terrestrial foodlands in the Fraser River Estuary by identifying and mapping Indigenous traditional terrestrial foodlands in the estuary; developing shoreline conservation and restoration strategies to steward and retain traditional foodlands in response to climate change-related impacts in the region; and considering a policy framework to support Indigenous food sovereignty and foodlands retention.

The CSFS project through the USI Sustainability Scholars Program is 2022-042. To view all the projects and to apply, visit: https://sustain.ubc.ca/teaching-applied-learning/sustainability-scholars-program/apply

LFS in the News

James Vercammen was quoted in an article about Canada’s Food Price Report 2022, produced by UBC and three other Canadian universities. BIV

Random Acts of Recognition

Congratulations to Random Acts of Recognition recipient:

Sahil Sahibole for helping to get staff and TA’s set up quickly with online lab and course instruction.

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.

 Events  

Today – Teaching Seminar

Joséphine Gantois, Candidate for Assistant Professor in Human Dimensions of Biodiversity Conservation

Teaching Seminar:  Causal Inference for Environmental and Conservation Policy: Introduction to Instrumental Variables

January 21, 9:00-10:00am

Register here

 Deadlines  

Feb. 11 – Killam Teaching Prize – change in deadlines

The call for nomination for the Killam Teaching Prize are now open.

We need to update the deadlines announced on Wednesday to give the evaluation committee time to better review nominations.

The deadline to submit nominations is now February 11^th, 2022 to allow enough time for the nominees to submit their final Killam Prize package  by February 25^th, 2022

Nominated faculty members will be notified and have until February 25^th to submit their completed package to melanie.train@ubc.ca.

So please submit your nominations early!  For more information on the criteria and to nominate, please visit https://lc.landfood.ubc.ca/killam-award/

Deadlines:

• February 11^th: End of calls for nominations
• February 25^th: Deadline to submit Killam Prize nominee package to melanie.train@ubc.ca
• March 11^th: Killam Teaching Prize winner for the Faculty of Land and Food Systems submitted to Provosts Office.