LFS Today July 26, 2022

News

Tech Tip Tuesday: Providing students access to Canvas courses beyond the term dates

Canvas courses at UBC default to term-based start and end dates. However, instructors have the option to extend the end date of the course to allow course material access to their students beyond the dates set by default. This can be used to accommodate students who have deferred their final examinations. The steps to change the due date of the Canvas course have been listed in the documentation linked below.

Documentation: https://lc.landfood.ubc.ca/how-to-change-course-start-or-end-date-on-canvas/

Similarly, instructors can provide early access to the course materials by publishing the course and changing the start date.

For more information, please contact the LFS Learning Centre at it@landfood.ubc.ca

Planned interruption to multiple UBC Enterprise Services on Saturday, July 30

A reminder to everyone that there is a planned interruption to multiple UBC Enterprise Services on July 30 from 10:00am to 5:00pm PT. ​​

During this downtime there will be a brief interruption to most enterprise services, including the below, for up to 15 minutes while updates are performed. All involved service teams will be validating that services come back online as planned. This is happening during the standing and advertised maintenance window of the BC long weekend.

• EduCloud Server Administration Portal
• ELDAP
• Faculty & Staff Email (FASmail)
• Legacy Financial Management System (FMS)
• Legacy Human Resource Management System (HRMS)
• Kaltura
• Remote Labs
• SharePoint
• Student Information System (SIS)
• Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI)
• Wireless
• UBC Blogs – blogs.ubc.ca
• UBC Content Management System (CMS) – cms.ubc.ca, including all hosted websites
• UBC Website – www.ubc.ca

In addition, other non-Enterprise services may also be impacted, including:

• MedNET
• UBC Okanagan CMS – *.ok.ubc.ca, including all hosted websites

All services are expected to automatically recover.

For more information, please refer to the UBC IT Status Page.

Events

New LFS branded templates: Canva 101 Workshop

Interested in learning about the basics of designing with Canva, a beginner-friendly graphic design platform?

Shannon Wong, LFS Communications Coordinator, will share some tips to get you started, including creating social media graphics and posters, navigating the LFS Brand Kit – including the new icons – and introducing new templates with updated branding.

Please indicate your availability through this Doodle poll by Friday, July 29. A one-hour workshop will be scheduled via Zoom.

If you have any questions, contact Shannon at shannon.wong@ubc.ca.

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.

August 3 – Apply for up to 180k PICS Opportunity Project Funding

Opportunity Projects Program supports new and emerging leaders to pursue bold and impactful climate solutions research. Successful projects are awarded up to $180,000 over a maximum of three years with 3-5 awards granted per call.

Read more to find out how to apply.