LFS Today Jun 3, 2022
By imelda cheung on June 3, 2022
Reminder: 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:
Only the current form will be accepted.
Email your completed form(s) to virginia.frankian@ubc.ca by 4:30pm, June 15th, 2022.
Forms and details for both types of expenses are found 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 ** “ |
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CAIRS Preliminary Investigation 48 hours Reminder
As a reminder, supervisors are responsible to report and investigate all accidents/incidents involving UBC workers (faculty, staff & student workers) or practicum students, and to submit a Preliminary Investigation Report within 48 hours (2 days) and complete a Full Investigation Report within 30 days in UBC’s Centralized Accident/Incident Reporting System (CAIRS). |
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Today – Lunch & Learn Series
What I Wish Educators Knew Before Class Started: Re-examining Academic Experiences Through Student-led Seminars with Shirley Ting
This is a reminder for our session to be held TODAY at noon (PT). Shirley Ting (5th year Global Resource Systems student at LFS and former Student Directed Seminar Coordinator) will be leading the discussion this week.
How can professors support student engagement? Faculty members play a critical role as supervisors in the Student Directed Seminars (SDS) program and can help students develop personally and professionally. In this session, Shirley Ting will discuss her time in the program and how her experience has allowed her to reflect on what it means to be engaged in higher education.
Join Shirley this Friday to explore her perspectives on student engagement and discuss how faculty members can better support students. To register for the Lunch & Learn Series, please visit https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1.
Follow the Lunch & Learn Series on Twitter and the Lunch and Learn Series Webpage |
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June 4 – UBC Farm Farmers’ Market Season Begins
Join the UBC Farm June 4th for their weekly Saturday multi-vendor market from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Our Tuesday and Wednesday (in front of the UBC Bookstore) markets begin in June as well. Tune in to their Instagram on Saturdays for live vendor features.
Upcoming Market Dates:
- Saturday, June 4th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the UBC Farm
- Tuesday, June 7th from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the UBC Farm
- Wednesday, June 8th from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the UBC Bookstore
See who is at the market this week |
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June 16 to Aug. 4 – JEDII STEM Series Summer Workshops
Just launched: the JEDII STEM Series summer workshops explore how you can support equity-deserving groups and shift your unit’s recruitment and hiring practices to support justice, equity, decolonization, Indigenization and inclusion (JEDII). Open to faculty, staff, postgrad scholars and graduate students at UBCV and UBCO.
Learn more and register to attend |
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Sept. 15 – LFS Internal Research Grant Program (IRGP) 2022 Spring Application
The Faculty of Land and Food Systems Internal Research Grant Program (IRGP) provides short-term support for the development of innovative, multidisciplinary research that will eventually form the basis of a research proposal submitted to one of the Tri-Agency funding organizations (i.e. NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC) or the UBC TLEF program. The overall aim of the IRGP is to identify and support innovative, early-stage research within LFS which will enable preliminary data to be gathered for the purpose of strengthening the calibre and competitiveness of research proposals submitted to the Tri-Agency and TLEF funding competitions from LFS.
The LFS IRGP encourages collaborative multidisciplinary submissions: this year’s IRGP also aims to spark new collaborations with units and faculties external to LFS, hence applicant teams must be comprised of a lead PI from LFS and at least one other co-applicant from outside LFS with whom the PI has never worked before. The lead, and at least one other co-applicant, must be full-time LFS faculty members with a minimum of 12-month appointments.
This year’s IRGP applications must address one or more of the five priority areas from the current LFS Action Plan, Navigating Change: Addressing climate change and resilient food systems; Ending hunger and improving food security; Enhancing regional agriculture for sustainable cities; Promoting nutrition and wellbeing for healthier communities; Ensuring the health and welfare of animals in society.
Support will only be provided for the direct costs of research that are essential to the completion of the proposed research, including: stipend and salary support for undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, research-related travel, and material supplies or consumables. This year’s IRGP applications must include support for at least one undergraduate student.
Applications (application form plus all attachments submitted as a single PDF file) for this funding call should be sent to lfs.research@ubc.ca by Monday, September 15 at 5pm.
Full details on the IRGP program including the Application Form can be found here |
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