LFS Today July 12, 2022

News

Random Acts of Recognition

Congratulations to recipient Shannon Wong – thank you for your work on producing LFS Today daily. The content is excellent! For example, I was able to easily apply for Work Learn students prior to the deadline, and LFS Today’s entry on that saved me so much time and was incredibly useful! You are doing an excellent job!

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.

Tech Tip Tuesday: LFS VPN

We encourage LFS faculty and staff members to use the UBC LFS VPN to connect to UBC resources when they are working off campus.

The LFS VPN will place users within the LFS firewall, providing better security and access to some LFS websites that are not accessible from the general UBC VPN pool. The LFS VPN will also feature MFA with Duo starting Aug 3, 2022, further increasing its security.

Instructions on how to connect can be found here, https://lc.landfood.ubc.ca/connecting-to-the-lfs-vpn/.

Please contact the Learning Centre at it@landfood.ubc.ca if you have any questions or concerns.

New affinity group seeks to connect 2SLGTBQIA+ faculty and staff

Looking to connect more often with 2SLGBTQIA+ staff and faculty at UBC? Get started virtually over MS Teams to be part of the conversation. Over the summer and fall, this group will be coming together to learn more about the needs of its members and how best to connect and strengthen our community networks. If you’re interested in joining the group, send an email to positive.space@ubc.ca.

Events

July 14 – Orientation and on-boarding to support equity-deserving students, faculty and staff | JEDII STEM Series

How can we improve the orientation and onboarding of students, faculty and staff from equity-deserving groups in STEM at UBC? Learn more through this virtual workshop, part of the summer JEDII STEM Series.

Thursday, July 14

2:00 – 3:30pm

Register

Deadlines

Aug. 1 – Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge

The annual Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge, hosted by the Institute of Food Technologists and funded by the Seeding The Future Foundation, is back for another year.

The goal of the Challenge is to inspire and support innovative, diverse, and multidisciplinary teams to create game-changing innovations that will help transform the food system.

To incentivize innovation at all levels, ranging from idea generation to development and scale-up, the Challenge offers again three levels of awards consisting of Seed Grants, Growth Grants, and a Grand Prize category, totaling up to $1 million annually.

Applications are open until August 1. For more information on how to apply, please visit www.ift.org/food-system-challenge or contact foodsystemchallenge@ift.org.