LFS Today Mar 10, 2022

 News  

Pacific Agriculture Show – sign up by March 11

The Pacific Agriculture Show is coming up March 31-April 2 at the Abbotsford Tradex Exhibition Centre.

The Faculty and the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm will have a 10×10 booth for the three days and we are opening the booth to showcase faculty research to the producers who attend. If faculty members, lab staff or graduate students would like to volunteer for a 3-4 hour shift to meet-and-greet agriculture show attendees, they are welcome to join the booth!

We’ve set up a sign-up sheet – please sign up for the booth by March 11:
https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8BPQRm2fE4wdjxQ

Your lab or research group can provide promotional materials – providing background about your work and/or including a call-to-action for show attendees – as well as research slides (up to 5) for our screen display.

If you have any questions, please contact Karen Lee (Karen.lee98@ubc.ca).

Teaching Theory Thursday – Curriculum and Pedagogy

“A bad curriculum well taught is invariably a better experience for students than a good curriculum badly taught: pedagogy trumps curriculum. Or more precisely, pedagogy is curriculum, because what matters is how things are taught, rather than what is taught.” -Dylan Wiliam

Miniature Roses for Sale

Lovely yellow roses called Sun Made are needing a home. They are $2 each.

Please contact Melina Biron (melina.biron@ubc.ca) if you would like one. They will let you in to pick the one you would like.

 Events  

Mar. 11 – Lunch & Learn Series: Effective Online examinations

This session will be held on Friday, March 11, 2022 at noon (PT). Rob Peregoodoff (Director, Learning Services) and Erica Hill (Operations Manager, Learning Technology Ecosystems), both from Sauder School of Business at UBC, will lead the discourse this week. 

Online exams can be an effective tool and tools and techniques have come a long way in the last few years.  Come and learn what our colleagues at Sauder are doing to make effective, efficient and secure online assessments.

In this session you will learn about:

• Converting Paper exams into digital exams
• Strategies for online exam invigilation
• The pilot project about to be launched called “Integrity by Design” for large scale high stakes exams.

Join Rob, Erica and the LFS Learning Centre team to explore how online exams have been conducted effectively at Sauder. To register for this session, please visit https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1

Follow the LFS Learning Centre’s Lunch & Learn Series on Twitter and the Lunch and Learn Series Webpage.

Mar. 11 – Forest(Reads): Final Event

The final virtual event for Forest(Reads) will focus on the intersection of race and gender.

Access virtually through their Canvas Site

Mar. 24 – LFS Scholar Series: Dr. Harjinder Singh

Title: Designing Food Structures for Optimal Functionality and Nutrition

Abstract: The challenge of designing foods for health attributes requires a detailed understanding of the interactions of food structures with physiological and behavioral processes occurring during food consumption and digestion. The human gastrointestinal tract (GIT) is the interface between consumed food and the human body, and the process of food digestion in the GIT is multi-faceted and complex. The mechanisms of food disintegration and consequent absorption of released components in the GIT in relation to food structure remain unclear. This presentation will provide an overview of the approaches used for designing foods for functionality within the GIT, with examples of recent work from our laboratory on the structural changes in natural and fabricated milk based food systems during the digestion process.

Biography:  Distinguished Professor Harjinder Singh is the Director of the Riddet Institute (Centre of Research Excellence), Massey University, New Zealand. His research expertise includes dairy science and technology, functional foods, food colloids, structures, and nutrition. He has published over 400 research papers in international journals. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and a Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology, and has received several international awards, including the Marschall Rhodia International Dairy Science Award, the William C. Haines Dairy Science Award (USA) and the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Science Prize.

March 24th, 4:00 – 5:00 pm PT ​via Zoom (Register in advance for the meeting): https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Ivc-CpqzIoEtbcyBq981HV_FsVeAHv_dBt

 Deadlines  

Mar. 11 – UBC Farm Undergraduate Research Competition 2022

The Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm Undergraduate Research Competition provides financial support for innovative, undergraduate-led research projects at the UBC Farm. In 2022, $6000 of total funding is available, while individual projects can apply for a maximum of $3000 in funding. Students need to identify a primary supervisor (UBC graduate student, postdoctoral researcher, or faculty member). Undergrads from any UBC Faculty are eligible.

Find out more and apply here: https://ubcfarm.ubc.ca/ubc-farm-undergraduate-research-competition/

Deadline to apply: March 11, 2022.