LFS Today May 18, 2022

News

Free vegetable seeds this month

The West Point Grey library is giving away free vegetable seeds this month. No exchange necessary, they have a wide selection of seeds – you can take up to three packets per visit to the library. The seeds are through:
http://www.villagevancouver.ca

A number of organizations throughout BC offer seed libraries (including UBC) – a list with contact info can be found here: https://borrowsaveshare.com/?page_id=69

Office chair giveaway from the FNH Sensory Lab

FNH is replacing 14 tan coloured padded swivel chairs on wheels located in the Sensory Lab and so they are FREE for whoever wants to come and get them. The chairs are still sitting in the FNH Rm 140 Sensory Lab. If anyone would like a picture of the chairs or access to the room to look at the chairs up close and try them out please contact Peter Hoffman (peter.hoffman@ubc.ca).

Events

TODAY – LFS Townhall (Hybrid) with guest speaker (10am)

Faculty and staff are invited to today’s LFS Townhall with guest Larry Carson, Associate Director, Information Security Management at UBC. For those joining in-person, you are welcome to join us in FNH, Room 60…light refreshments available.

Agenda

10:00-10:05 am – Welcome and land acknowledgements – Rickey Yada
10:05-10:15 am – Presentation: Online security – Phishing and Multi Factor Authentication, by Larry Carson, Associate Director, Information Security Management at UBC
10:15-10:30 am – Presentation: New branding, by Karen Lee and Pia Lim, LFS Communications

10:30-11:00 am – Updates from Deans, Program Directors, Directors
11:00 am – Wrap-up – Rickey Yada

If you need the Zoom meeting link, please contact Karen at Karen.lee98@ubc.ca.

May 30 – The Surprising Impact of Hands: Using the LFS Pop-up Studio to Enhance Online Lectures

Online teaching might be here to stay, but pedagogy can be affected when the online instructor’s presence is not ideal. The narrow window of Zoom cameras can prevent the use of hand gestures that are common in in-person teaching. To eliminate this, Professor Carol Mc Ausland approached the Land and Food Systems (LFS) Learning Centre to try and teach in a weather forecaster setup, allowing her to annotate and point to her graphs and slides with her hands.

Find out more here: https://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/the-surprising-impact-of-hands-using-the-lfs-popup-studio-to-enhance-online-lectures/

June 2 – Speaker’s Night Event with Dr. Anubhav Pratap-Singh

On June 2, Dr. Pratap-Singh will share about his life outside the classroom: his research in the field of technological interventions to improve food system sustainability, his service to the community, excerpts from his life journey, what keeps him going, his failure-laden path to success, some myths and controversies about faculty members and most importantly, maintaining the work-life balance.

Come and join us for a fun evening of learning, socializing and networking on Thursday, June 2, 2022, at 6:30 pm.

June 15 – TBC@UBC Network hosts interactive online session on innovative composition of disciplines on healthcare teams

How are healthcare teams innovating with, and being impacted by, adding novel disciplines and roles into the team to address prevalent patient needs? What ideas and questions arise from such innovative team composition?

Join TBC@UBC on June 15, 12:00pm – 1:30pm, to learn more and dialogue with our Dietetics program.

Deadlines

June 15th – First Call: Course Expense & Teaching Equipment Fund Requests – due by 4:30pm, June 15^th

Teaching an Undergraduate course in 2022/23 Winter Term 1?
Send in your:

Course Expense Fund request for Term 1, and
Equipment Expense request for the entire year.

Only the current form will be accepted. Please download it from the LFS Intranet Finance page directly.
Email your completed form(s) to virginia.frankian@ubc.ca by 4:30pm, June 15^th, 2022.

Forms and details for both types of expenses are available in the “LFS Intranet Finance” section, under Teaching-Related Funding and Undergraduate Teaching Equipment Fund headings, respectively.

Course Expense Fund:
For course expenses other than photocopying (e.g., laboratory supplies, field trip expenses, parking expenses for guests, etc.).
To be reimbursed, expenses must be on the current form, itemized, and pre-approved or your claim will not be processed.

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

Teaching Equipment Fund:
For equipment or other items needed for teaching purposes over multiple years.
Purchases to be used by several courses and/or programs will be given priority.
Eligible expense examples include laboratory equipment, field equipment and audio-visual equipment.

** Late requests may not receive funding ** “