LFS Today July 29, 2022

News

LFS in the News

Canadians hoping to avoid the worst of soaring food prices might want to cut back on caesar salad, buttered toast and mac and cheese. Lettuce, butter and pasta — key ingredients for these perennial favourites — are among the foods with the highest price spikes over the past year.

Rick Barichello gives his thoughts on why food prices are rising.

Link: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/07/28/news/why-mac-n-cheese-more-expensive

Potential Change to your name in Canvas and other services

UBC recently updated how learning technology systems at UBC determine what name to display for you. As a result, a small percentage of people will see their names automatically updated in Canvas and other systems.

We know names are important and personal. Here’s how you can check your preferred name or adjust how your name is displayed:

• Information for Students
• Information for Faculty/Staff

Events

July 29th 2022 (TODAY) – LFS LC Lunch and Learn Series: Open Drop-in Clinic

This session will be held on Friday, July 29th 2022 at noon (PST).

Are you ready for Fall 2022? Anticipating the needs of the instructors for the 2022W1 term, we will be running a series of open drop-in clinics to help you get your courses ready. The LFS Learning Centre team will be present to support you tomorrow in topics such as:

• LFS Canvas Template and Course Design
• Management of Course Materials on Canvas
• Media Management on Canvas

… and other Canvas queries.

Drop by the Learning Centre clinic to get set for your September courses. To register for the Lunch & Learn Series, please visit:

https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1

Follow the LFS Learning Centre’s Lunch & Learn Series on Twitter and the Learning Centre Website to stay up to date!

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.

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.