LFS Today Mar 4, 2022

By imelda cheung on March 4, 2022

 News  

“Indigenous Land Healing Beyond Hashtags” – Book Review by Jennifer Grenz

“Indigenous Land Healing Beyond Hashtags,” is a review by Jennifer Grenz in Nature Ecology & Evolution of Dr. Jessica Hernandez’s book, “Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes with Indigenous Science”. This is an essential read for anyone looking to be the best ally they can be.

Read it here: https://rdcu.be/cIarL

LFS|US Graduation Dinner – Solis Occasum

The annual LFS Graduation Dinner will be taking place on Saturday, March 19th from 6-11pm at The Westin Bayshore.

The LFS Gala team recognizes that some students may not be able to afford the ticket pricing. In order to make this event open and accessible to all, we are looking for LFS faculty and staff who wish to support students who would otherwise be unable to attend the event.

If you are interested in graciously purchasing a sponsored ticket for this event, please contact Thilini, Student Engagement Officer at thilini.leitan@ubc.ca.

 Events  

Today – Lunch & Learn Series: Open Drop-in Hour on Assessments

The Learning Centre team will be hosting a drop-in session TODAY, March 4th, 2022 at noon (PT).

Join us for this drop-in session to discuss your plans regarding online and in-person assessments and bring your questions to the LC Team.

To register for the Lunch & Learn Series, 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. 10 – UBC Farm Community Workshops

UBC Farm Workshops are led by experienced farm staff and many allied experts in sustainable living skills from around the region.

Upcoming Workshops:

 Deadlines  

Today – Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award – Deadline for Nominations

In recognition of the valuable role that Teaching Assistants play in our programs, UBC annually awards nineteen Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards. The calls for nominations for the Killam GTA Award for the Faculty of Land and Food Systems are open and can be submitted by any student, faculty or staff who have worked closely with the TA they are nominating.

Eligibility: The award is open to any UBC Graduate Teaching Assistant who acts or has acted in this position at UBC Vancouver during the current and/or preceding academic year (2021-22 and/or 2020-21).

Nomination Process: Nominations are encouraged from faculty supervisors (professors, senior laboratory instructors) of the Graduate Teaching Assistant nominee, from colleagues working closely with the nominee, and from the students who attended the nominee’s class or laboratory. TAs can also self-nominate for the award. Nominations are being collected via a webform.

The nominations deadline is today, Friday, March 4th, 2022. On receiving a nomination, the nominees will be required to submit their nomination packages to Melanie Train by March 11th, 2022. More information on the award criteria and the nomination form can be found on the Killam GTA Award page. Support letters are also being collected via the same webform above. Since we are implementing this webform for the first time, we encourage you to test it out before the actual submission (both nomination and support letter submission). If you think you have made a mistake, just let us know.

If you have questions about the nomination process, please contact Judy Chan, LFS Learning Centre (Judy.Chan@ubc.ca).

Today – Staff – submit your Professional Development Fund claims

Don’t forget to use available professional development (PD) funding and submit claims in Workday by Mar. 4. PD funds are intended to support learning activities that will enhance your workplace knowledge or skills and support your career growth at the university. Claims will be accepted in Workday on a first-come, first-served basis, until the annual funding pool is exhausted or by Mar. 4, whichever comes first.

Learn more

Mar. 7 – ESRI Canada GIS Scholarship

Each ESRI Scholarship applicant should provide no more than three or four pages, two pages of text and one or two pages of graphics (maps, tables, figures, models, diagrams), outlining why they should receive the award. The text pages should describe the applicants’ background in one paragraph and then detail their use of GIS, including when it was done and for whom. The graphics page(s) should include an exported image of the graphics that they have produced that illustrates the outcome of their analysis. Applications will be reviewed according to the clarity of the presentation, the level of GIS innovation, and the quality of the graphic presentation.

Successful recipient will receive:

  1. one-time payment of $2,000
  2. three-year term license of ArcGIS for Student Use
  3. three-year Professional-level subscription to the ArcGIS Developer Program (ADP)
  4. digital copies of select Esri Press Publications
  5. two instructor-led training courses offered by Esri Canada
  6. registration for one of Esri Canada’s User Conferences
  7. a personal and editable profile in the Esri Canada GIS Scholarship Web Portal
  8. eligibility to apply for the Esri Canada Associate GIS Professional Program in year of graduation

Submission deadline is on Monday, March 7.

See the full details here.

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