LFS Today July 20, 2022

News

Wellness Wednesdays: Positive Coping Strategies

We all have go-to habits that we turn to in times of high stress or challenge, but are these habits working for you or against you? Our mental health can greatly be supported and maintained with the help of positive coping strategies, however it can be tough to identify the right ones, and to stick with them. In this session, participants have the opportunity to learn about concepts like resilience and coping while testing out coping practices that have been shown to support mental health and wellbeing.

Dates:
Part 1 – Tues, Aug 16, 2022
Part 2 – Tues, Aug 23, 2022

Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. PST

Location: Zoom

Learn more and register

Events

July 20 to 22 – UBC Blueberry Fest

The UBC Blueberry Fest features a pancake breakfast, ethical bean coffee, chef demo, blueberry baked goods, and more! Meet the BC Blueberry Council and purchaswe bulk blueberries from our local farmer and the UBC Farm Wednesday Campus Market. More event details to come.

July 20-22

9am – 1pm

UBC Bookstore Plaza

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July 21 – LFS 302B: A Discussion with Dr. Damayanti Buchori (Dami), IPB University

LFS302B (International Field-Study to Indonesia) has a unique opportunity to meet with a very distinguished research scientist, public speaker, and feminist – Dr. Damayanti Buchori (Dami) – from IPB University in Indonesia (http://psl.ipb.ac.id/teachers/prof-dr-ir-damayanti-buchori-msc/). She is very engaging and always provides student with valuable wisdom on career and life.

The Zoom meeting will take place on Thursday, July 21 at 7pm.

https://ubc.zoom.us/j/64243076798?pwd=cXdtZ2J5czJCc3VtdVhtTytoMTlkdz09
Meeting ID: 642 4307 6798
Passcode: 654321

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

Update: **To access “The Beach” cartography, visit https://decolonialfutures.net/portfolio/the-beach/**

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.

Deadlines

July 31 – Partnership Opportunities with PepsiCo, Takeda, Bayer and more

PepsiCo

• Materials and technologies for greenhouse gas reduction in packaging
  Reduce GHG emissions during packaging production or over the lifecycle of PET bottles, aluminum cans, and glass packaging
  Funding: $25,000 USD is available for a proof-of-concept in 2022, with an additional $50,000-100,000 available for further development.
• Technologies to minimize the salty taste of electrolytes
  Minimize the perception of a salty taste in beverages containing electrolytes
  Funding is proposal-dependent and typically ranges from $25,000 to $100,000 for a 6-month proof-of-concept.

Takeda

• Small molecule binders of lysosomal proteins and glycosaminoglycans for eventual use as PET ligands
  Identify small molecule binders or binding motifs that can bind glycosaminoglycans, sphingolipids, or lysosomal proteins
  Funding: $150,000 – $300,000 over 1-2 years for further evaluation of potential leads along with possible license of the researcher’s patented materials.

Bayer Crop Science

• Grants4Ag: Space biology exploration at Biosphere 2
  Conduct fundamental plant science research in a space-simulating environment
  Funding: Funding is proposal-dependent and typically ranges from $5,000 to $15,000. Prior recipients have used the funding for contract research, personnel, equipment and other purchases. Indirect costs are not included.
• Grants4Ag: Climate solutions through plant modifications
  Enable carbon sequestration or removal in cereals, legumes and pulses relying on the use of gene editing or transgenes
  Funding: $5,000-$10,000. Funds will be in the form of a credit towards transformation work at the Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center. The final amount and scope of work will be based on discussions between the selected project teams, WCIC and the Bayer team.
• Grants4Ag: Enabling technologies for plant transformation
  Develop new plant transformation technologies for row crops, particularly monocots
  Funding: $5,000 to $15,000. Prior recipients have used the funding for contract research, personnel, equipment and other purchases. Indirect costs are not included.

Confidential F500 Company

• Technology to remove chemicals, odors, VOCs and pathogens in air
  Remove, destroy, or eliminate chemicals and odors in air
  Funding: $25,000 to $100,000 for a 6-month proof-of-concept project with the potential for follow-on funding for 1-3 years.

The submission deadline for all calls is July 31. One-page proposals can be submitted online via the Halo application form which should take less than an hour to complete. If you have any questions, please reach out to James Wang at j.wang@ubc.ca.