LFS Today May 28, 2021
By imelda cheung on May 28, 2021
Lecture: Elizabeth Novak, Candidate for Lecturer in Human Nutrition – Today
Dr. Elizabeth Novak, Sessional Lecturer, Food Nutrition and Health Program, UBC, and Instructor, Health & Human Nutrition, Capilano University
Lecture: Protein Digestion and Absorption
May 28, 9:30-10:50am
Register in advance for this meeting: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5YvfuCupzwtE9HGM7bKz8ZD-TDyEGKmKj_J
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Lunch & Learn Series: Cultivating Creativity in STEM Classrooms – Today
This session will be held on today at noon. Lindsay Cuff (LFS/Forestry Assistant Professor of Teaching) will be our guest presenter for this week.
This session will focus on the importance of integrating and nurturing creativity in STEM courses. Participants will learn practical techniques to encourage creative thinking and engagement, both online and face-to-face, and will reflect on how they are currently building in creativity as an integral aspect of knowledge construction into their own teaching practice.
Come join Lindsay and the Learning Centre team to learn and discuss the techniques to cultivate creativity in your classrooms.
To register for this session, please visit https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1
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Joint Forestry and LFS Teaching Colloquy: Teaching and Learning Beyond COVID
Friday, June 4, 2021
10:00 am – 12:30 pm
To RSVP: click here.
Visit the Learning Centre website.
Full Program：
- Welcome
- Opening remarks by the Deans
- Keynote presentation – Preparating for the Fall 2021/2022 (Dr. Christina Hendricks)
- Case sharing – LFS hybrid course (Dr. Juli Carrillo)
- Case sharing – Forestry hybrid course (Dr. Suborna Ahmed)
- Topics for breakout session:
- Incorporate online materials (including videos) into lab and field courses;
- Alternative forms of assessment;
- Engaging our students and tracking progress;
- Roles of subject context play in determining teaching modalities;
- Ensuring equity in hybrid any other teaching modalities;
- Learning technologies
- Wrap-up of the breakout sessions
- Closing remarks
Questions and suggestions? Please contact: Judy.Chan@ubc.ca (LFS) or Michelle.Zeng@ubc.ca (Forestry)
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Sustainable Friday
Your sustainability tip of the week is
Working from home?
Think about sustainable choices you can make in your
home office to reduce your carbon footprint.
Do you have a sustainability tip to share with your colleagues? Send it to mcm-lst@lists.ubc.ca and lfs.today@ubc.ca! Tips can cover a range of settings, from lab work to your community to working from home.
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Return to Campus Town Hall Sessions
From: Andrew Szeri, Provost and Vice-President Academic, UBC Vancouver
Dear colleagues,
As we plan for significantly enhanced academic activity by September, the university continues to work hard to ensure that the campus is indeed safe to resume in-person instruction and scholarly activity. To help us prepare for fall, I want to hear your concerns so that the UBC planning teams can address issues to the very best of their abilities. Your confidence in our safety planning is crucial.
As such, my office has arranged a series of town halls to listen and later to respond to your concerns. The first series of town halls will be primarily listening sessions. Following the listening sessions, we have scheduled two follow-up sessions that will allow us to respond more thoroughly to the questions, issues and ideas raised in the earlier sessions. To have as broad a reach as possible, we will be recording the follow-up sessions.
Session Registration
These sessions, which are open to all faculty and staff who work in the Vancouver Faculties, will be conducted via Zoom, and registration is required. Additional sessions may be added, as needed.
Listening sessions:
- June 2, 1 – 2pm
- June 3, 9:30 – 10:30am
- June 4, 11am – 12pm
Response Sessions:
Written questions may also be submitted ahead of time, via the Zoom registration form or to: provost.office@ubc.ca
We look forward to hosting these interactive sessions, and providing the corresponding information and reassurances regarding our collective efforts to ensure the safety of our campus in the fall.
In the meantime, please refer to the Restart 2.0 Plan provided by the province, outlining the four-step plan in bringing BC back together. Additionally, here is a link to the recent Post-secondary town hall with Dr. Bonnie Henry, hosted by Thompson Rivers University. And, finally, a link to the COVID-19 Return-to-Campus Primer, which was produced by BC Post-Secondary Institutions with the support of the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training.
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CityAge: Building Agritech Clusters
The next edition in CityAge’s Future of Food series will look at how leading regions around the world are driving strategies to foster and attract talent in agriculture.
Thursday, June 3
11:30am – 1:00pm PT
Register here
What You’ll Learn
- Case studies as to how regions are accelerating the growth of food startups and building regional brands
- The blueprint for success: what leading countries, like the Netherlands, are doing to build innovation zones and grow global market share
- How to increase business acumen amongst research-based entrepreneurs: how to “talk business” – marrying research, innovative thinking and strong sales and marketing
- How business and universities can work together to build entrepreneurial success
Speakers include:
- Gavin Dew, Chief Strategic Advisor, Abbotsford Tech District
- Hannah Tucker, Director, Balance Point Ventures
- Robert Newell, Associate Director, Food and Agriculture Institute, University of the Fraser Valley
- Sjaak Wolfert, Theme Ambassador Digital Innovation in Agri-Food, Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands
- Dave Smardon, CEO,Bioenterprise
- Dr. Evan Fraser, Director, Arrell Food Institute, University of Guelph
- Jason Bradley, Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Olds Colleges
- Zach MacDonald, Director, Operations & Talent, Milk Moovement
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