LFS Today May 25, 2022

 News  

ReachOut – Spring 2022 Issue

Our spring alumni magazine is hot off the presses! You’ll find the magazine later this week in the FNH and McML buildings and it’s now available online. It will be distributed to 10,000+ LFS alumni, government, industry and media via email or post. Our cover this time features Derek Dee and his research on changing protein structures at the nanomolecular level. Other stories feature new faculty members Anna Brisco, Tianxi Yang and Jennifer Grenz; alumna Emma Strazhnik; career strategist Rob Kim; graduate student Vincent Fetterley; and, a Campus as a Living Lab project that uses ‘Sticky Pi’ to automate insect tracking on campus (Juli Carrillo and Quentin Geissmann).

Read more: www.landfood.ubc.ca/reachout/

Are you a Manager or Supervisor going on vacation? Set up your Workday Delegations

As the holidays near and people go on vacation, please remember to set up your delegations if you’ll be unavailable for a certain length of time. Delegate your workflow approvals to an alternate approver.
Read on to find out how to delegate all inbox items or only inbox items belonging to a specific type: How do I set up delegation?

 Events  

Today – Institution-led Social Reform and Justice: Modernizing Gender Expression on Government-Issued ID

The current policies for gender expression on BC government-issued ID are an example of a decade long effort in behavioural, intellectual and social change management. Join SPPGA Adjunct Professor Natasha Thambirajah, Dr. Daniel L Metzger, and Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Equity Grace Lore for an inside view on the evidence-based, change management, and stakeholder engagement practices used to gradually shift the BC health sector and provincial government towards recognizing the criticality of recognizing rights of people who are transgender or gender non-conforming to express their gender identity with minimal or no state or medical intervention.

Wednesday, May 25
12:00 – 1:00 PM PDT

Register here

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.

Learn more and register here.

 Deadlines  

May 27 – Volunteer Opportunities with the Canadian Science Fair Journal

The CSFJ is a Canada-wide, online peer-reviewed journal that publishes original scientific work by students aged 6-18. Undergraduate and graduate students mentor school-aged authors in the science writing and communication process.

CSFJ is actively recruiting editors for their Environmental Sciences, Computer Sciences and Engineering sections as well as French editors and translators. However, they are open to applicants from all fields.

All interested students can also contact editors@csfjournal.com with any questions.

Learn more here. Deadline to apply is Friday, May 27.

June 15 – UBC Health Collaborative Health Enrichment Activities – Call for Proposals

UBC Health is offering up to $2,000 per year, to a maximum of $6,000 over three years, to faculty members at UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan to support the development and delivery of a collaborative health learning opportunity.

Enrichment activities help build capacity for learning that prepares students for interprofessional practice. They offer students the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills to work interprofessionally and learn about patient and community perspectives. UBC Health supports health programs to advance interprofessional and collaborative practice by hosting a Canvas site to share information about elective collaborative health activities available to students and facilitate registration.

The deadline to submit a proposal is June 15, 2022.

For more information on eligibility criteria, key dates, FAQs, reporting requirements, and how to apply, visit their website.