LFS Today May 16, 2022 | LFS Intranet 2020

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Welcome Sofia Antoniou!

Please welcome Sofia Antoniou, our 3^rd year undergraduate in the Food, Nutrition and Health program. She will join the LFS operations team this summer as the LFS Operations and Safety Assistant to assist with operational and safety duties. She will mainly work in the MacMillan and FNH building. She will be sharing an office with Imelda in MCML 230D and her first day on campus will be Monday, May 16^th. Come and say hi!

Launch of New SIG Explore & Exchange Central Competition

UBC Support Programs to Advance Research Capacity (SPARC) has launched the new SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG) Explore & Exchange Central Competition, which replaces what was previously known as the SIG “unaffiliated” competition.

Guidelines and Download Application Form can be downloaded from the SPARC website, at the bottom of this page: https://sparc.ubc.ca/sshrc-programs/ssh-internal-funding-opportunities

Please note the deadline for proposals is coming up quick – on June 1^st. Please contact SSH Research Development Officer Danica Kell at danica.kell@ubc.ca if you have any questions about this opportunity.

The UBC Farm Farmers’ Market Starts in June

Join us on Saturday, June 4 for the beginning of the UBC Farm Farmers’ Market season. Don’t miss Vancouver’s only multi-vendor farmers’ market located on a working farm! In addition to certified organic and farm-fresh produce, fruits, herbs, and seeds from the UBC Farm, the Saturday multi-vendor Farmers’ Market also features a variety of other local vendors selling meat, mushrooms, fruit, vegetables, nursery plants, baked goods, alcohol, prepared foods, arts and crafts, all alongside food and coffee vendors.

Saturdays, 10:00am-2:00pm at the UBC Farm

June 4 to November 26, 2022

Need more fresh UBC Farm produce? Our Tuesday Evening and Wednesday Bookstore Markets officially begin in June too! It’s our version of a farm stand where we sell only our organically certified UBC Farm produce at the UBC Farm on Tuesdays, 4pm-6pm, and outside the UBC Bookstore Wednesdays from 11am-2pm. (PSST! We have a pop-up Wednesday Bookstore Market on June 1st as well!)

We accept card payments and UBC students receive a 10% discount on all UBC Farm produce. Please visit our website for more details: ubcfarm.ubc.ca/food

Events

May 26 – VFPC Community Talk: How to Solve our Food Waste Problem

Hosted by the Vancouver Food Policy Council’s Food Waste Working Group

Online event: Thursday, May 26th , 6 pm – 7:30 pm

Registration is not required, find a link to join the meeting posted here at the time of the event (https://vancouver.ca/your-government/vancouver-food-policy-council.aspx)

Discover how we can solve Vancouver’s food waste problem with 6 amazing panelists who will discuss:

The current landscape of food waste in Canada
Municipal policy options we can implement
Groups using innovative tech to end food waste
The city’s Circular Food Innovation Lab

Guest speakers include:

Lori Nikkel, Chief Executive Officer of Second Harvest
Jamie-Lynne Varney, author of A “Right to Food” Framework for a Just Circular Economy of Food
Juan Martinez, author of Policies, Incentives, and Measurement Protocols for Food Waste Reporting by Businesses
Jake-Zeljko Pavlovic, VP of Procurement and Merchandising, Freshlocal Solutions Inc. (SPUD.ca)
Erin Nichols, City of Vancouver Senior Project Manager – Zero Waste
Danielle Todd, Founder and Director of Make Food Not Waste (video presentation)

Regular meeting agenda, including liaison updates and working group business, will follow from 7:30 – 8:30 pm.

June 2 – Celebrate Graduation with the Class of 2022

Come join the Class of 2022 at a special in-person celebration and share the excitement with our graduates! The reception will take place in the Franklin Lew Forum (Room 101) in the Peter A. Allard School of Law on Thursday, June 2 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, following our Congregation Ceremony. So that we can prepare appropriately, we kindly ask that you RSVP here by 11:59 pm on Sunday, May 29^th.

If you have any questions about registration, please contact James Wang at j.wang@ubc.ca

June 8, 15, 29 & July 6 – Anti-Racist STEM Faculty Cohort

Racism has long been a pervasive problem in universities and a core component of addressing racism starts with capacity building for faculty who are looking to adopt anti-racist approaches in their practice.

To support these important endeavours, the Faculty of Applied Science have developed an Anti-Racist Teaching & Leadership cohort program that brings together faculty from Science, Applied Science, Land and Food Systems, and Forestry who are either at an entry point for their anti-racist learning journey or who are looking to refresh their learning on anti-racist concepts. Cohort participants can expect to focus on three areas of development throughout this experience:

Reflection, knowledge, and understanding
Experience and practice
Tools, resources, and techniques

The cohort is limited to 24 faculty and participants must be able to attend all 4 sessions.

Session 1: June 8, 2022 | 10:00am – 12:00pm PST
Session 2: June 15, 2022 | 10:00am – 12:00pm PST
Session 3: June 29, 2022 | 10:00am – 12:00pm PST
Session 4: July 6, 2022 | 10:00am – 12:00pm PST

Learn more and register here.

Deadlines

May 20 – International Policy Ideas Challenge – Call for Proposals

SSHRC and Global Affairs Canada have partnered to launch the sixth International Policy Ideas Challenge. Aimed at graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and early career researchers from Canadian postsecondary institutions, the challenge provides each of the top six winning entries with a $3,000 award to develop and transform their ideas into policy briefs.

The challenge also provides laureates with coaching including access to subject matter experts, networking and skills development opportunities, which will culminate in presenting the resulting policy briefs to Canadian officials during the 2022 National Ideas Symposium later in 2022.

Submissions should be no more than 750 words in English (or 950 words in French) and speak to one of the themes outlined in the call. For details, including entry guidelines, see the 2022 IPIC call for submissions.

The deadline for submission is May 20, 2022.

Should you have any question about this call, please contact Global Affairs Canada at: IPIC-CIPI.POR@international.gc.ca.

May 23 – Job Posting: Indigenous Academic Advisor Position

The Indigenous Academic Advisor is an exciting and unique opportunity to make a difference for all students at the Faculty of Land and Food Systems. As part of the team supporting Indigenization and decolonization, this position will support faculty members to develop and include Indigenous ways of knowing into curriculum. This position also plays a vital role in providing an additional level of support for Indigenous students within the Faculty and fostering an environment for Indigenous students to thrive.

The closing date for this job posting (https://ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcstaffjobs/job/UBC-Vancouver-Campus/Indigenous-Academic-Advisor_JR7203) is 11:59pm on Monday, May 23. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply.