LFS Today Mar 2, 2021

Mahsa Jessri Receives MSFHR Reach Award

Assistant Professor Mahsa Jessri is a Reach Award Recipient from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. Mahsa will co-lead a large team of researchers on a project titled: Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH)-Heart and Stroke (HAS) Calculator. Congratulations!

View the announcement here.

Funding from this competition will create pathways from research evidence to impact and help ensure that cutting-edge health research can directly improve the health of British Columbians and BC’s health system.

 

Note to Submitting Expense Reports

The LFS Finance has prepared a note for submitting expense reports. This note will help with entering expense report information for expense reimbursements and reconciliation of UBC VISA card transactions.

 

2020/21 Year End Deadlines and Procedures 

The University’s fiscal year-end of March 31, 2021 is fast approaching. Business Processes have changed with the launch of Workday. Therefore, we ask your assistances to allow sufficient time for online steps to initiate, review and approve the transactions before the deadline for transactions to be included in this year’s financial results.
 
Supplier Accounts & Procurements:
 
Invoices must be approved by March 19, 2021 at 5:00PM in order to be included in March. It’s strongly recommended to submit invoices or ask suppliers to submit invoices as soon as possible to allow sufficient time for processing before the cutoff.
Details on supplier invoices processing is available at https://finance.ubc.ca/year-end/private/key-business-processes/private/supplier-accounts-procurement.
 
Expense Reports & VISA Reconciliations:
 
Expense reports, including VISA reconciliation must be approved by March 19, 2021 at 5:00PM in order to be included in March. If you have delegation assigned to finance team, please submit backup documents for expense report or VISA card purchases to the Finance Office by 4:30 pm on Friday, March 12, 2021 to allow sufficient time for processing steps to take place.

Should you require assistance, please feel free to contact Deborah Wang deborah.wang@ubc.ca or Vicky Zhang vicky.zhang@ubc.ca.

 

Summer Course Expense Fund Requests – due March 15

Teaching an undergraduate course in the 2021 Summer Terms (May – August 2021)?
Email your completed form to virginia.frankian@ubc.ca by March 15.

Expendable laboratory supplies, field trip expenses, and other expenses directly addressing course learning objectives are eligible.

To be reimbursed, expenses must be itemized and pre-approved or your claim will not be processed.

Find form and details at “Finance”. Look under Finance Forms. Use the link next to Teaching-Related Funding for more information, and find the request form at Course Expenses Fund (MS Word).

Note that students should not be charged course fees for any LFS courses.

All course expenses must be requested and approved prior to the start of each term.

** Late requests may not receive funding **

 

Teaching Theory Tuesday

Images offer an instant feeling while text offers depth and context.  
“The processing of written text is a deliberative process. People know that they’re decoding letters. Images tend to speak very instantaneously… people involved in engineered persuasion view images as thins that work very quickly and bypass reason”  
– Yousman, 2016, The Text and the Image.

Brought to you from the Learning Centre.

 

MFRE Speaker Series – Today

Speaker: Jason Fung, VP of Categories, Berries & Greenhouse, The Oppenheimer Group
Topic: Business Analysis in the International Produce Sector: A View from Oppenheimer
Date & Time: Tuesday, March 2, 10:30 am – 11:30 am
More info.

Jason was promoted to lead the complex and expanding berries and greenhouse categories in early 2019. Having strategized and executed Oppy’s full-fledged entry to the berry category over the last half decade in his capacity as category development director, he also applies similar disciplines toward the growth of our vibrant greenhouse business. Jason joined Oppy in 2009 as a category analyst and was quickly promoted to the role of business analysis team manager. In 2011, Jason was named marketing manager, overseeing the analytical and creative ingredients of the Oppy go-to-market strategy. Two years later, he was promoted to manager, category development, and then director, category development in 2014. He was honored as one of Produce Business Magazine’s 40 Under 40 in 2016. He is a graduate of the Produce Marketing Association’s 2010 Emerging Leaders program, where he was elected by his classmates to represent them on the board of a major agricultural organization and also attended its High Performance Management Conference.

Jason holds a diploma in marketing from the British Columbia Institute of Technology, a bachelor’s in economics from the University of Victoria and a master’s in economics from the University of British Columbia.

Event Linkhttps://ubc.zoom.us/j/63198895621?pwd=TzlhTUdLMVlhR29WcVZSVFZjK0pKdz09
Meeting ID: 631 9889 5621
Passcode: 521521

 

SOIL 500 Graduate Seminar Series

Date: Friday, March 5, 3:00pm
Title: Application of the Denitrification-Decomposition (DNDC) model for estimating the impacts of short-term grassland set-asides on plant-available nitrogen and crop yields in Delta, BC
Speaker: Trish Hanuszak, MSc student (supervisor Sean Smukler)
Abstract & bio available here.

Register in advance for this seminar: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5codeiqqzksGNdAwk5PH3y9cDt4b2IrCrBM  

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. All are welcome!

 

Share Your Feedback in the Workplace Preferences Survey

As COVID-19 continues to impact the way we teach, perform research, and work, faculty and staff are invited to share feedback in the Workplace Preferences Survey by March 3. This survey is an opportunity to share feedback on your experiences in the workplace over the last year, whether working remotely or on campus, as well as what you’d like your workplace to look like in the future. Participating in the survey is easy. It takes about five minutes to complete.

Access the survey here: https://hr.ubc.ca/workplace-surveys

The survey closes end of day on Wednesday, March 3.

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