LFS Today Jun 24, 2022

News

Attention MCML 249 fridge users

There is a significant ice build-up in the freezer compartment of the fridge that causes the fridge to keep popping open. Therefore, we are organizing a fridge defrost on Wednesday, June 29th. Please ensure you remove your food items by 1pm. Any unclaimed items will be trashed.

The fridge will be back in service at noon on Monday, July 4th. During the defrost, if you require the use of cold storage, please use the lunch room in 370B. Thank you for your cooperation.

If you have any comments/questions, please email us at lfs.facilities@ubc.ca.

Are you a Manager or Supervisor going on vacation? Set up your Workday Delegations

As the holidays near and people go on vacation, please remember to set up your delegations if you’ll be unavailable for a certain length of time. Delegate your workflow approvals to an alternate approver.

Read on to find out how to delegate all inbox items or only inbox items belonging to a specific type: How do I set up delegation?

Events

Aug. 16 – New Faculty Teaching Orientation: Making Connections

This one-day orientation at UBCV serves as a space for new faculty to become more effective teachers and strengthen efforts to forge significant transformative learning experiences for students.

Tuesday, August 16

10am – 12pm

In-person & Online

Register

Deadlines

June 30 – Story ideas on ‘Future of Food’ for TREK magazine

AlumniUBC is making a call-out for story ideas for their fall/winter TREK magazine. The working title of that issue’s theme is “The Future of Food”.

Population growth, climate change, global conflict, and socio-political forces are all factors affecting our ability to provide plentiful and nutritious food for everyone. How do we meet the challenge? They are looking for UBC insights and solutions.

Please submit your story ideas to Karen.lee98@ubc.ca before Thursday, June 30.

Here are some potential topic areas:

• Effects of climate change (eg: drought, fire, flood, loss of species)
• Sustainable/innovative/hi-tech farming
• Improving the nutritional value of food
• Food inequality (access, quality, affordability)
• Precarious supply chains
• War, famine, and hunger
• Food waste
• Plant-based diets versus traditional sources of protein, social/cultural shifts
• Bio-tech (eg: CRISPR) and new foods

Aug. 1 – Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge

The annual Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge, hosted by the Institute of Food Technologists and funded by the Seeding The Future Foundation, just opened the application period for its second year.

The goal of the Challenge is to inspire and support innovative, diverse, and multidisciplinary teams to create game-changing innovations that will help transform the food system.

To incentivize innovation at all levels, ranging from idea generation to development and scale-up, the Challenge offers again three levels of awards consisting of Seed Grants, Growth Grants, and a Grand Prize category, totaling up to $1 million annually.

Applications are open until August 1. For more information on how to apply, please visit www.ift.org/food-system-challenge or contact foodsystemchallenge@ift.org.