LFS Today July 19, 2022

News

Tech Tip Tuesday: Organizing your inbox

Microsoft Outlook has a few features that allow you to categorize and organize your email inbox based on rules. If you receive many emails that need categorization, these rules can help you organize them automatically into folders, thereby helping you manage your inbox better. You can review these rules on the link below.

Link to documentation: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/organize-your-inbox-9aea8ad7-883d-459b-a3ea-ae20f06cfb32

For more assistance with inbox organisation, please contact the LFS Learning Centre at it@landfood.ubc.ca.

Events

July 22 – Lunch & Learn JEDI Session: The Beach Cartography – Exploring the different stages of EDI work with Will Valley

The next Lunch & Learn session will be held on Friday, July 22th, 2022 at noon (PT). Will Valley (Associate Dean, EDI at Faculty of Land and Food Systems) will lead the session this week.

The Lunch & Learn Series hosts a Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI)-based discussion session on the third Friday of each month. These sessions are led by Will and the Learning Centre Team, and will be open to all. For these sessions, attendees will be provided with an article or podcast episode that will be explored in a reflective and interactive discussion.

It is common to hear individuals state that they feel overwhelmed when integrating EDI into their teaching. “The Beach” is used in the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective as a cartography that attempts to articulate different affective investments that people bring to engagements with global challenges and global justice. It emerged as a response to the need to talk about our fears of “drowning” as we face the complexities, complicities, paradoxes, uncertainties, inequalities and contradictions of social and global justice work. In this Lunch and Learn session, we will review “The Beach” cartography, discuss the layers and and questions associated with each stage, and consider how insights from this cartography can shape experiences and expectations in our teaching practices.

Resources: Andreotti, V. (2016). The educational challenges of imagining the world differently. Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d’études du développement, 37(1), 101-112.

Join Will and the Learning Centre team this Friday for our monthly JEDI drop-in session. To register for the series, please visit https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1

Follow the Lunch & Learn Series on Twitter and the Lunch and Learn Series Webpage.

Aug. 8 to 10 – Annual Office Inspection in MCML

The LFS operations team will be conducting the annual office inspection in the MCML building on August 8^th to 10^th, 2022. The team will go around and inspect each office in the building for deficiencies and/or safety hazards. We will make sure to knock on the door before entering and should not take more than 5 minutes per office.

If you are teaching or in a meeting at your office on those dates, we ask that you post a note such as “in a meeting” on your door to avoid interruptions.

If you prefer to be present when we conduct the safety inspection, please email us at lfs.facilities@ubc.ca with a date/time that works for you.

If you have any questions regarding the annual office inspection, contact lfs.facilities@ubc.ca.

Deadlines

July 28 – Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (ISI): Special Fund for Graduate Research

This one-time-only Special Fund is for graduate-level students to fund research that advances any of the Indigenous Strategic Plan’s (ISP) 43 actions.

This was initiated by the Indigenous Strategic Plan Executive Advisory Committee (ISPEAC) and the Indigenous Strategic Plan Coordinating Committee (ISPCC) following adjudication of the Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (ISI) Fund Stream 3: Student-led Projects.

Graduate students have widely reported a lack of access to funds for on-the-ground, Indigenous community-based research. This one-time-only Special Fund for Graduate Research seeks to fill this gap to temporarily fund unique costs associated with research in this area until a longer-term funding stream can be established.

• Up to $30K is available per project
• Research projects can run for up to 18 months
• Principal Applicants must have at least one full-time faculty Co-Applicant tied to the ISI Fund research project.
• Applications are due July 28, 2022 at 3:00pm (PDT) through the online application portal

Further information can be found on the ISP website

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.