LFS Today Jun 13, 2022 | LFS Intranet 2020

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Last Notice: Course Expense & Teaching Equipment Fund Requests – due by 4:30pm, June 15

Teaching an Undergraduate course in 2022/23 Winter Term 1?
Send in your:

Course Expense Fund request for Term 1, and
Equipment Expense request for the entire year.

Only the current form will be accepted.
Email your completed itemized form(s) to virginia.frankian@ubc.ca by 4:30pm, June 15^th, 2022.

Forms and details for both types of expenses are available in the “LFS Intranet Finance” section, under Teaching-Related Funding and Undergraduate Teaching Equipment Fund headings, respectively.

Course Expense Fund:
For course expenses other than photocopying (e.g., laboratory supplies, field trip expenses, parking expenses for guests, etc.).
To be reimbursed, expenses must be on the current form, itemized, and pre-approved or your claim will not be processed.

Note that students should not be charged course fees for any LFS courses.

Teaching Equipment Fund:
For equipment or other items needed for teaching purposes over multiple years.
Purchases to be used by several courses and/or programs will be given priority.
Eligible expense examples include laboratory equipment, field equipment and audio-visual equipment.

** Late requests may not receive funding **

ISLFS Student Wins Best Paper

ISLFS student Bianca Ravani Cecato won this year’s award for Best Paper at the Early Career Workshop held by the Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Association in June 2022. You can learn more about Bianca and her research at https://wildconsecon.landfood.ubc.ca/about/469-2/

Random Acts of Recognition

Thank you to Ava Yang and Aaron Griffith for supporting the finance team in delivering the Workday workshop to faculty members.

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.

Events

June 17 – Dekaban Senior Scholar Talk: EU’s Farm2Fork Strategy

Friday, June 17, 2022
Time: 2-3:30 pm

Hybrd: McML Room 160 (in person) or Zoom (link to be sent on June 16)

Title: The European Union’s Farm2Fork Strategy as an accelerator of the bioeconomy under path dependence

Speaker: Dr. Mariusz Maciejczak, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of Economics and Finance, Warsaw University of Life Sciences

Description: In this presentation, Dr. Maciejczak will discuss the development of the EU’s Farm2Fork strategy as a new an element of its Green Deal policy through perspectives of its historically changing priorities and recent crises (i.e., the war in Ukraine and the synergies with the EU’s Bioeconomy strategy). Dr. Maciejczak will also examine, as a cases study, the results of the EU’s recent PotatoMetaBiome project.

RSVP by Thursday, June 16 (noon): https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_25dJ8Qx87UCBPi6

Questions: Contact Matias Margulis (matias.margulis@ubc.ca) or Karen Lee (karen.lee98@ubc.ca).

July 12, 14, 19 – Indigenous Initiatives Design Series for STEM

The Indigenous Initiatives Design Series for STEM is a three-part workshop for STEM faculty who come to Indigenous topics with different levels of knowledge and expertise. Participants will share practices, redesign elements of their teaching and learning projects and resources, model and explore educational materials, and apply classroom climate principles to everyday learning design situations. The workshops will take place on July 12, 14 and 19. Registrations are open until June 20. Space is limited.

For anyone who may be unfamiliar with this professional development workshop, CTLT has recently published a profile of three past participants of the II Design Series.

Deadlines

June 20 – Job Posting: Interim Academic Director, Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC)

Professor Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-Kwe) will be stepping down from the position of Academic Director, Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC), on June 30, 2022.
The University is now looking for a tenured or tenure-track faculty member to take up this important role. The deadline for applications is end of day Monday June 20, 2022.

Interested candidates are invited to submit a statement of interest that addresses the above points, a curriculum vitae, and the names of three referees by end of day Monday June 20, 2022 to:
Professor Eduardo Jovel eduardo.jovel@ubc.ca
cc. Moura Quayle moura.quayle@ubc.ca

View the full job posting