LFS Today Nov 12, 2021

 News  

Call for Nominations – LFS Service Awards

Nominations are now open online for the Faculty of Land and Food Systems outstanding service awards, including the Shynkaryk Service Award (staff), Richards Service Award (faculty) and Graduate Student Service Award. Please do not email your nominations. The deadline for nominations is Thursday, December 2.

LFS Shynkaryk and Richards Awards
Nominees should be LFS staff or faculty members who meet the following criteria: consistently provides excellent service to students, faculty and staff, accomplished tasks with good humour and grace, works extremely well with others, and always goes one step further on every project. Nominations should include the name of the nominator, name of nominee and 3 or more reasons for the nomination (with examples).

LFS Graduate Student Service Award 
Nominees should be graduate students who meet the following criteria: provide services and / or leadership to fellow graduate students and the LFS community at large, and serve as exemplars to fellow grad students, faculty and staff or the faculty in general. Nominations should include the name of the nominator, name of nominee and 3 or more reasons for the nomination (with examples).

LFS in the News

Tabitha Robin Martens was a guest on The Conversation‘s podcast series, Don’t Call Resilient, alongside Melana Roberts, President of Food Secure Canada, about Canada’s food systems and how they intersect with culture, colonization, and the lives of BIPOC Canadians.

“Our food system has been deliberately decimated and food has been used as a means to control us for so long,” Martens says. “And really, food was the means of the colonization of Canada.”

The Conversation

Most Creative Pumpkin Contest Winners

Thank you to everyone who voted and submitted an entry to our Most Creative Pumpkin contest! The winners are:

1. The chicken and the fish, by Justin Henry
2. Hello, is it me you’re looking for?, by Karen Lee
3. Ball python with rat in tummy, by Wayne Tamagi

Congratulations! Winners will be contacted by the Dean’s Office.

 Events  

Today – Lunch & Learn: Drop-in Office Hours

This session will be held on Friday, November 12 at noon.

For the Lunch & Learn session today, the LFS Learning Centre staff will be holding drop-in office hours. Bring any questions that you may have about your courses, tech setups or any previous session of the Lunch & Learns to discuss it with the Learning Centre team.

To register for the Lunch & Learn Series, please visit https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1

Follow the LFS Learning Centre on Twitter and the Lunch and Learn Series Webpage.

Nov. 15 – Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab Book Talk Series w/ Tabitha Robin Martens

Join session 3 of the book talk series to discuss ‘Chapter 8: Rebuilding Cultural Identity and Indigenous Food Sovereignty with Indigenous Youth through Traditional Food Access and Skills in the City by Tabitha Robin Martens and Jaime Cidro from ‘Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases, and Conversations’ — an anthology edited by Priscilla Settee and Shailesh Shukla.’ We are honored to host Tabitha Robin as our guest speaker for this session!

Monday, November 15
3:30 – 4:40pm PST
Register here
Or watch it live on Facebook here

Nov. 18 – UBC Reads Sustainability with Dallas Hunt

Join UBC Sustainability Initiative for a reading from CREELAND by Dallas Hunt. A collection of poetry concerned with connections to home and language, even from great distances, and the power of these connections as part of a process of creating, living, and flourishing.

Dallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty Eight territory in northern Alberta. He has had creative works published in Contemporary Verse 2, Prairie Fire, PRISM international and Arc Poetry. His first children’s book, Awâsis and the World-famous Bannock, was published through Highwater Press in 2018. His new book, CREELAND, is out through Nightwood Editions. Hunt is an assistant professor of Indigenous literatures at the University of British Columbia.

Esmé Decker (moderator) is a second-year student in English Honours, minoring in Environment & Society. Her climate organizing journey began with leading her high school’s climate strikes and has led her to organizing with Climate Justice UBC, coordinating the team for UBC Climate Hub’s Youth Climate Ambassadors Project, and facilitating climate storytelling workshops.

Presented in partnership with The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.

Thursday, November 18
4:00 – 5:30pm PST
Livestream with Q&A
Register here

Nov. 22 & 25 – Canadian Plant Health Council Seminar

The Canadian Plant Health Council (CPHC) is hosting a virtual seminar for plant health partners to come learn more about the CPHC and the work it has been doing since it was established in 2018.  The CPHC is a partnership-based council comprised of industry, academia, and Federal-Provincial-Territorial governments working together to strengthen plant health in Canada.  This seminar is an opportunity for partners to learn more about initiatives in their area(s) of expertise or interests and how they too can get involved in this important work.

English Session:
Monday, November 22
1 – 2pm EST

Click here to join the seminar
Or call in (audio only):
Dial-in number: 613-800-7011
Conference ID: 473 782 031#

French Session:
Thursday, November 25
1-2pm EST

Click here to join the seminar
Or call in (audio only):
Dial-in number: 613-800-7011
Conference ID: 605 916 801#

 Deadlines  

Nov. 19 – Funding opportunities with PepsiCo for UBC​ faculty

PepsiCo is looking to partner with university scientists to reinvent the flavor of coconut water. They are looking to modify the current From Concentrate Coconut Water ingredients to minimize off flavor and the aroma profile making it more neutral in taste, expanding the application potential, and improving juice portfolio margins. Proposal submission deadline is November 19, 2021. Those selected will receive up to $100,000 with the potential for follow-on funding.

Jan. 5 – Lab2Market NSERC: A New Research Commercialization Opportunity

Lab2Market (L2M) Program is excited to announce that applications for Lab2Market NSERC program are now live! This program is delivered in partnership with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and is an extension of the Idea to Innovation (I2I) Market Assessment Grant.

This 4-month program offers:

• Curriculum (lectures, talks, and workshops) designed to introduce researchers to the world of entrepreneurship.
• An advisor network (founders, industry leaders, and service providers) to help researchers through their business venture.
• A community of like-minded entrepreneurs.
• $20,000 in funding to support researchers in getting their idea off the ground.
• The opportunity for future funding through the NSERC I2I Phase I grant.

The first cohort is scheduled to run in March 2022 with applications closing on January 5th, 2022. To apply please visit the application page.

It is encouraged to come out to one of the information sessions (Nov 17, Dec 1) to learn more about the program and application best practices (Register here).

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to wkosiba@ryerson.ca.