LFS Today Jun 28, 2022

News

Random Acts of Recognition

Big thanks to Cyprien Lomas and Will Valley for stepping up to lead this year’s LFS Teaching Colloquy. Decolonizing is a challenging topic, and they developed a thoughtful approach to bring the LFS community together and get the conversation started.

Tech Tip Tuesday: Creating Inbox Rules on Outlook Web App

Inbox rules can used to automatically perform specific actions on emails that arrive in your inbox. Examples include automatically moving them to other folders, changing the importance of messages or deleting them based on certain criteria. Inbox rules can be helpful when you wish to direct emails from your students regarding a course to a different folder as well as for managing incoming emails from an RSS feed or ticketing systems.

To have these rules in effect on all your devices used to read your email, create them at www.mail.ubc.ca. Click on the Settings button (gear icon on top right). Select ‘Options’ > ‘Inbox and sweep rules’ and create a new rule based on your criteria.

Documentation: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-inbox-rules-in-outlook-8400435c-f14e-4272-9004-1548bb1848f2

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

Events

July 9 to Aug. 27 – Seeds of Knowledge

Seeds of Knowledge showcases the innovative research happening at the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and our partners. Highlighting results and giving the public the chance to meet researchers, explore research tools, and join a tour led by researchers to see what research in action looks like at the UBC Farm.

Saturdays, June 4 9 August 27

10:00AM – 2:00PM

UBC Farm

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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

Sept. 1 – Knowledge Synthesis Grants on Gender-Based Violence

Across Canada, people continue daily to face violence because of their gender, gender expression, gender identity or perceived gender. SSHRC and Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) are offering up to 30 $30,000 grants to synthesize existing research knowledge and identify knowledge opportunities and gaps on gender-based violence.

Deadline to apply is September 1, 2022.

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