LFS Today July 25, 2022

News

Random Acts of Recognition

Congratulations to Random Acts of Recognition recipient:

Vivian Li for going through the past 21 years of data for the LFS Mentorship Program and creating a master list of previous mentors (a list of over 500 mentors). She took numerous hours collating data and comparing different spreadsheets from all the years of the program.

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.

UBC Sustainability Podcast: F is for Faculty – Dr. Tara Ivanochko

Check out a new episode of UBC Sustainability’s podcast F is for Faculty featuring Dr. Tara Ivanochko, Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, and Academic Director at the Sustainability Hub.

Listen here

Events

Aug. 6, 13 & 20 – Graduate Instructional Skills Workshops

This workshop series is designed for graduate students who are new to teaching and for those who wish to refresh and enhance their skills.

August 6, 13 & 20 | In-person
August 21, 27 & 28 | In-person

View all dates and register

Deadlines

Aug. 17 – Advance Knowledge in Health Research, Care, Systems or Outcomes

CIHR’s Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential for important advances in fundamental or applied health-related knowledge, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes by supporting projects of research proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers in all areas of health. The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, and/or high-risk lines of inquiry or knowledge translation approaches.

Register by August 17. Full application due September 14.

Learn more

Sept. 15 & Nov. 15 – UBC Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies: Catalyst Collaboration Fund

As part of the Institute’s focus on inter- and trans-disciplinary coordinated efforts to address the climate and nature emergency, we invite faculty at UBCV and UBCO and their associates to submit applications for the PWIAS Catalyst Collaboration Fund.

The available funds ($180,000) will support 2 project streams for up to $10,000 per project in 2 funding cycles.

Catalyst Collaboration Fund Stream 1 – Seed or match funding for research projects related to climate and nature emergency.

Catalyst Collaboration Fund Stream 2 – Events focused on scholarly, artistic and research collaborations (e.g. academic roundtables and community engagement events) and knowledge translation and mobilization (e.g. videos, resources, open-access courses, larger public-facing events) related to the climate & nature emergency.

Deadline Cycle 1: Sep. 15, 2022

Deadline Cycle 2: Nov. 15, 2022

For more information, please visit https://pwias.ubc.ca/programs/catalyst-collaboration-fund/