LFS Today Jun 14, 2021

UBC Students Win Map the System Global Finals

LFS students Cathy Zhu and Emily Chau along with Kinesiology student Anika Cheng won first place in the Map the System Global Finals! Hosted by the University of Oxford, the competition encourages a systems approach to understanding complex social and environmental problems.

This is UBC’s first Map the System win and Anika, Cathy and Emily were supported by UBC’s Centre for Community Engaged Learning in preparing for the competition.

For their project, Anika, Cathy and Emily evaluated food insecurity for Indigenous Peoples living in B.C.’s urban settings. There are 198 distinct First Nations groups in B.C. and the students looked system-wide at the issues and ways of moving forward. The students worked with community partner Unique Get Together Society (UGTS), an Indigenous-led non-profit in understanding the issues more deeply.

Learn more about Map the System here: https://mapthesystem.sbs.ox.ac.uk/

MFRE Student B Corporation Assessment Project

MFRE student Vincci Zheng will cap off her master’s degree this summer with a graduating project with Kindred Cultures Inc., where she will be responsible for conducting analysis and providing recommendations concerning their B-Corp readiness.

Click here to read more about Vincci’s project

Registration Open for 2021 Research Computing Bootcamp

Interested in learning about High Performance Computing (HPC)? Want to know more about how you can use Cloud Computing, GNU/Linux, and Virtual Machines to support your research?

UBC Advanced Research Computing is hosting a 3-day Research Computing Bootcamp from Monday, July 12 – Wednesday, July 14 2021. This virtual program will feature beginner and intermediate level courses on GNU/Linux, HPC, Cloud Computing and more. For current and future users of UBC ARC Sockeye https://arc.ubc.ca/ubc-arc-sockeye and UBC ARC Chinook https://arc.ubc.ca/chinook, there will be interactive sessions on both platforms as well as a DRI Open House for Q&As with the UBC ARC Systems team. Full program available here, https://arc.ubc.ca/2021-research-computing-bootcamp.

This Bootcamp is free and open to anyone interested in high-performance computing from any discipline or skill level.

Please register early as space is limited, https://arc.ubc.ca/training-events/2021-research-computing-bootcamp/registration-2021-research-computing-bootcamp.

For questions and more information, please contact arc.support@ubc.ca.

Speaker Series: Where are all the Black People?

The purpose of this speaker series is to foreground Black voices in fields where Blackness is particularly underrepresented, and provide actionable and measurable strategies to UBC to increase Black representation and Black excellence in these fields. Speakers from Canada and abroad will be highlighted.

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Upcoming:

Black Women in the Academy
June 23 | 9:30 – 11 am

Speakers:

• Dr. Veronica Fynn Bruey, award-winning researcher, author and law and policy reform advocate
• Dr. Juliet Daniel, Award-winning Cancer Biologist, McMaster University

Black Futures
July 5 | 11 am – 12:30 pm

Speakers:

• Celina Caesar-Chavannes, previous Member of Parliament, and Senior Advisor of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion Initiatives, Queen’s University
• Dr. Wisdom Tettey, Vice-President and Principal of University of Toronto Scarborough
• Donna Young, Dean, Faculty of Law, Ryerson University

Climate Solutions for BC Agriculture

In collaboration with their sector stakeholders, BC Agriculture Council and the Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC are teaming up to develop a joint application for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Agricultural Climate Solutions Program (ACSP).

Keeping with the ACSP objectives, their application will focus on agricultural commodities and regions of the province that have potential to contribute to Canada’s carbon sequestration and GHG emission targets and have demonstrated interest in field-based, farmer-led research.

For more information and to learn how you could participate or support their application, please visit https://bcagclimatesolutions.ca/.

Letters of Support for their application will need to be sent before June 15, 2021.

Agrivita Canada Inc Call for Letters of Intent

Agrivita Canada is pleased to announce a Call for Letters of Intent for the next iteration of the Canadian AgriSafety Applied Science Program (2022-2026).

The purpose of the Program is to develop applied science projects addressing priority areas for agricultural health and safety in Canada. Please see the Call for LOIs document through this link: https://agrivita.ca/documents/agrivita-loi-2021.pdf

Deadline for submission is THURSDAY JULY 15, 2021.

For further information please contact Nadia Smith at nadia.smith@agrivita.ca.

For more information on Agrivita Canada please visit https://www.agrivita.ca.

IAFNS 2021 Annual Meeting: Advancing Science for Impact

June 16 & 17
Opening reception June 15

The inaugural Annual Meeting of the Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences will feature science sessions on the role of food in health and disease, novel ways to control pathogen contamination in food processing environments, and new initiatives for managing food allergies.

Other sessions will focus on low-calorie sweeteners, establishing alternatives to measurement of protein digestibility, and the impact of food supply changes on nutrition.

Click here to learn more and register