LFS Today Nov 30, 2021
By imelda cheung on November 30, 2021
LFS Holiday Party – reminder to sign up by tomorrow!
All faculty and staff are invited to the LFS Holiday Party on Thursday, Dec. 9. Based on the poll from our last Townhall, we will be holding an in-person event and returning to Agora this year. This event gives us an opportunity to ring out the year together, and celebrate and recognize our LFS Service Award winners.
There will be individual boxed meals catered by Hānai Family Table, so when you register, please indicate your meal preference.
If you would like to help, let us know when you register – we are looking for people to help with decorations, setting up/cleaning up Agora, emceeing, photography and general tasks. Thank you to those who volunteered already!
Please Note: this Holiday Party is for faculty and staff members only due to room capacity guidelines. LFS graduate students will be hosting their own holiday event.
LFS Holiday Party
Date: Thursday, December 9
Time: 3-5 pm
Location: Agora Café in MacMillan
RSVP with your meal preference by end of day Dec. 1: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8IgrgVyXO5ThSoC
Nominate LFS Service Award winners by Dec. 2!
Remember to recognize your LFS colleagues for their work! Categories are Shynkaryk Service Award (staff), Richards Service Award (faculty) and Graduate Student Service Award.
To make a nomination: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2awS2wRNOiHBApM |
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Tech Tip Tuesday – UBC Library Syllabus Service with LOCR
UBC Library’s Scholarly Communications & Copyright office offers a service to help UBC Vancouver instructors clear copyrighted course and teaching materials quickly and easily. The syllabus service allows for instructors to upload course readings/syllabi directly into the Library Online Course Reserves system (LOCR) which is integrated with Canvas and ensures that materials conform with Canadian copyright law and existing UBC license agreements and policies.
Library staff will clear copyright for you and material will be made available on your course site, generally within 10 business days. To use this service, follow the instructions on this link: https://services.library.ubc.ca/borrowing-services/using-course-reserves/#fragment-8e20cd8d626b762e4eeeb4589a8ba7c4-1
For more information, contact the LFS Learning Centre at it@landfood.ubc.ca. |
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Today – NC-FAR Webinar: Animal Protein
Lab-grown meat is a topic of increasing interest among both producers and the public. Stories appear more frequently both popular press and trade journals. USDA recently solicited comments on labeling for meat and poultry products made using cultured cells derived from animals. This advanced notice of proposed rulemaking is an important step toward ensuring the appropriate labeling of meat and poultry products made using animal cell culture technology. These actions are an indicator that these products are likely coming in the “near future” to a store near you. This has implications and raises questions for both producers and the public.
The National Coalition for Food and Agricultural Research (NC-FAR) is hosting a free online webinar titled “Animal Protein: From Pen/Feedlot/Barn or from a Petri-Dish/Lab“. The Council on Food, Agriculture, and Resource Economics (C-FARE) is supporting this event through its webinar platform.
Tuesday, November 30
12pm ET
Register here |
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Dec. 2 – IRES Professional Development Seminar w/ Leroy Little Bear
Metaphysica: Intersecting Western and Native Ideas
You wake up every morning to what you think is ‘reality’……. ‘this is the way it is’. Never thinking about the underlying foundational basis for what you think is real. There may be an objective reality ‘out there’. But paraphrasing Stephen Weinberg, a quantum physicist, an objective reality exists out there but, as soon as you put a human being in the picture, the human being puts a human interpretation on it. So it is no longer an objective reality. Why does this happen? All societies at one time or another claim a territory. Over time, through mutual relationship with the totality of the territory, a culture arises. As part of the culture, interpretive criteria we call metaphysics/paradigms are developed. These become the society’s interpretive tools. One society’s interpretive tools are going to be different from another society’s interpretive tools because of different environmental and geographical settings. The presentation will speak to some of the differences and ramifications of different societal interpretive tools.
Leroy Little Bear is a member of the Small Robes Band of the Blood Indian Tribe of the Blackfoot Confederacy. He was born and raised on the Blood Indian Reserve; graduated from St. Mary’s School on the Blood Indian Reserve; graduated from the University of Lethbridge (Lethbridge, Alberta) with a B.A. Degree in 1971; graduated from the College of Law, University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah) with a Juris Doctor Degree in 1975.
Thursday, December 2
12:30 – 1:30pm
Zoom link
Meeting ID: 655 7788 1646
Passcode: 688442
Read more |
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Dec. 5 – Wreath Making Workshop
Sunday, December 5
11am – 3pm
Where: 6394 Stores Road Horticulture Building room 101
Cost: $30
The Horticulture Greenhouse is proud to resume the beautiful hand crafted moss wreath fundraiser for our feline rodent control team, Charlie and Lola.
Our wreaths are made with a moss base which provides the greens with moisture for a long living beautiful wreath, each one is unique.
Join us Dec 5th for the wreath making workshop from 11-3 in the potting room of the Horticulture Greenhouse. Make one wreath for yourself and one for the Greenhouse to sell in the event of the LFS Christmas party.
See the Greenhouse manager Melina Biron to sign up. There are limited spaces so sign up early.
Drinks and treats served.
RSVP at: melina.biron@ubc.ca |
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Dec. 6-9 – CTLT Winter Institute
The 2021 Online CTLT Winter Institute is a week of free professional development workshops from December 6–9, 2021. This year, the CTLT Winter Institute will focus on sharing innovative teaching practices and research surrounding teaching, learning and technology while supporting a sustainable, inclusive and thriving community at UBC. UBC educators are invited to come together virtually to share and reflect on the impact their teaching practices have on student learning experiences.
Learn more and register here |
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Today – Excess Staff Vacation Carry-Over Deadline
Depending on your employee group, the general staff vacation carry over maximum for vacation days into the new year is 10 days. Provisions for carrying-over excess vacation time will be reviewed on a case-by-case approach, where a rationale will need to be provided that will include the reasons why you were unable to use up your vacation time, a plan for usage of the excess time and approval by both your supervisor and the Dean’s Office. The deadline to submit rationales for excess vacation carry-over is November 30, 2021. Any submissions received after this date will not be considered. Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact Mona Lee. |
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Dec. 15 – UBC Health Awards and Scholarships
The competition for the 2021 UBC Health Awards and Scholarships is open until December 15.
These awards and scholarships recognize the academic and research excellence of faculty and students from various health disciplines at UBC as well as the achievements of health educators, professionals, and community partners across British Columbia.
Awards are open to health educators, professionals, and community partners in health who have made significant contributions to the advancement of health education and practice:
- John F. McCreary Prize for Interprofessional Teamwork
- John McNeill Excellence in Health Research Mentorship Award
- Award for Excellence in Interprofessional Teaching and Learning
- Practice Education Award
- R. Paul Kerston Community Educator Award
Scholarships are open to current UBC students in any health or human services degree program:
- ImpactBC Scholarships in Health Care Research and Development
- John H. V. Gilbert Interprofessional Scholarshi
- Professor Jessie Gordon MacCarthy Memorial Scholarship
For more information on individual awards, scholarships, and nomination and application processes, visit the UBC Health website. |
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Feb. 15 – Job Posting: Deputy Academic Director, CTLT
UBC Vancouver is embarking on a search for a new Deputy Academic Director, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT). Tenured UBC Vancouver faculty members are invited to apply for the position by February 15, 2022.
Working in close collaboration with and reporting to the CTLT’s Academic Director, Dr. Christina Hendricks, this position will play a key role as part of the senior management team. The Deputy Academic Director will provide strategic academic leadership to support the CTLT’s current projects and emerging priorities, which also contribute to teaching and learning initiatives at the institution more broadly.
As a key central academic services unit, the CTLT provides support to UBC’s teaching and learning community in areas such as teaching practice development; course and program design and evaluation activities; and learning technology development, delivery, and support. Some of the projects and initiatives currently underway at the CTLT include supporting the goals and actions in the UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan and the Inclusion Action Plan, as well as helping to envision and support the evolution of teaching and learning practices at the university.
Details for how to apply, and the full position description can be found at: https://academic.ubc.ca/academic-community/searches/DAD_CTLT. The deadline for application submissions is February 15, 2022.
Please share this opportunity widely within your Departments, Schools and units. |
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