LFS Today May 11, 2021

2021 Summer Final Exam Requests DUE

ALL SUMMER INSTRUCTORS: Submissions for 21S exam requests were due yesterday. If you have not yet done so, please complete the Examination Request Survey. Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the exam scheduling process and resources found online, (particularly the ‘resources’ link). If you have any questions or feedback, please contact Bonita Perko at lfs.scheduling@ubc.ca.

Sandbox Session: Reflecting on the 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge

Join us for a sandbox session with Special Guest Professor Karen Spiller to reflect on the 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge.

What are your reflections from participating in the challenge? What did you learn about yourself? What resonated with you? Did you experience discomfort? What insights will you move forward with? What questions are you left with? We will explore these questions and more during this sandbox session through small group break-out sessions and a question and answer period with Professor Karen Spiller.

As the Thomas W. Haas Professor in Sustainable Food Systems at University of New Hampshire (UNH), Durham, NH, Karen’s primary responsibility is to connect the community-engaged, transdisciplinary work of Food Solutions New England (FSNE), and in particular, its racial equity work, to students, faculty, and staff at UNH through lectures, workshops, and collaborative scholarship.

Topic: Sandbox Session: Reflecting on the 21 Day Equity Challenge
Time: May 13, 2021 10:00 AM (PDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82410777726?pwd=MXpzNVh1Syt5b3pXNkJXWFhKajR3Zz09

Tech Tip Tuesday by LFS Learning Centre

Canvas emails and announcements are not the only way to communicate with your students. You can use the email tool in your Faculty Service Centre (FSC) for important communications to ensure they are delivered to your students’ inboxes. To access FSC, please visit https://ssc.adm.ubc.ca/fsc/home.

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

Teaching across the curriculum with the garden as a teacher – Today!

Fresh Roots presents its webinar series – Sun, Sky, Seasons and Shadows – promoting science education with farm-based learning. Today’s topic is How can we use schoolyard farms as a space for garden-based learning to promote science education?

Susan Gerofsky – an associate professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) with a background in mathematics and experiential education will walk through a workshop filmed on one of the Fresh Roots Schoolyard Farms located at David Thompson Secondary School in Vancouver, BC. Targeted at elementary and high school educators, this online event will be recorded and presented over Zoom and hosted by Fresh Roots youth empowerment and experiential learning specialists with plenty of time for questions throughout!

In addition to this virtual event, Fresh Roots is celebrating this year’s Science Odyssey, Canada’s biggest science and technology festival, by highlighting amazing scientists from across the country! These scientists surprise and delight us with their unique topics and backgrounds, and the unexpected ways their work connects back to healthy food systems and a healthy environment.

Visit the Fresh Roots website to learn more: www.freshroots.ca

2021 PhD Dissertation Award Lecture – Recovery Begins Before the Surgical Incision

Join the Canadian Nutrition Society on Friday, May 14 as 2021 PhD Dissertation Award Recipient, Chelsia Ann Gillis provides her award lecture – “Recovery begins before the surgical incision”. The findings of this doctoral dissertation add to the growing body of evidence that the process of surgical recovery begins before surgery. Prehabilitation interventions can be applied before surgery to build physiologic reserve to support better postoperative recoveries. The lecture will aim to describe what is prehabilitation, how to apply it, and why it is important.

Speaker: Chelsia Ann Gillis, RD, MSc, PhD – McGill University
Moderated by: Tanis Fenton, PhD – University of Calgary
Date: Friday, May 14
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm (ET)
Webinar registration: Click here

The PhD Dissertation Award for Outstanding Research is given each year for outstanding research in nutrition at the PhD level and considers scientific papers constituting a publication of thesis material as a component of the award.

The Vagus Nerve and the Physiology of Reward and Digestion – Today!

Monell Seminar Series – Advancing Discovery in Taste and Smell

Today’s virtual seminar is on The Vagus Nerve and the Physiology of Reward and Digestion

Speaker: Dr. Wenfei Han
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Date: Tuesday, May 11
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
Register: Click here

This will be a Zoom seminar. This event is open to the public.