LFS Today Nov 4, 2020

Wellness Wednesday

Your Mental Health Tip of the Week:

Don’t let your accomplishments fade.
List successes, big and small.

Welcome to Workday!

As of this past Monday, UBC is now live with Workday for HR and Finance.  If you haven’t already done so, please log in and begin familiarizing yourself with the new integrated system.  Check your personal information and make any updates as required.  Please note absence balances will be updated in Workday at the end of this week so check back after November 9 to review your balances.  For your convenience, download the Workday app and don’t forget to bookmark the UBC Workday website (https://myworkday.ubc.ca/).  If you are experiencing technical difficulties while logging in, please contact Jessica Kim (jessica.kim@ubc.ca), our Workday Learning Rover.  Learn more about preparing for Workday and training resources on the LFS Intranet (https://my.landfood.ubc.ca/preparing-for-workday/)

Lost and Found

Campus Security has informed us that they found a black bag with a traffic safety vest and a LFS branded journal inside. Contact Campus Security for more information: 2133 East Mall or 604-822-2222.

FNH Graduate Seminar – Today

Wednesday, November 4, 2020 – 4:00 p.m. (livestream)

FOOD
Speaker 1: Catherine Wong
Supervisor: Siyun Wang
Open Topic Seminar Topic: Efficacy of probiotics and synbiotics against recurrent Clostridium difficile
Chair: Yu Tong Linda Lu

Speaker 2: Sara Zamani
Supervisor: Derek Dee
Open Topic Seminar Topic: Detecting a major peanut allergen, Ara h 2, in foods using immunoassays
Chair: Ronit Mandal

Zoom Info for FOOD:
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/61135797717?pwd=aHgyVXFTVlRFQnE3eG5NcGwvME1PZz09
Meeting ID: 611 3579 7717
Passcode: 108777

HUNU
Guest Speaker:  Alejandra M Wiedeman, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow | Devlin Lab
Department of Pediatrics | University of British Columbia
BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
Topic: FTO rs9939609 variant and cardiometabolic disease risk in children treated with second-generation antipsychotics

Zoom Info for HUNU:
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/63007485675?pwd=VUx3VUNqV1VvelFzaXYrOFFxeUxtQT09
Meeting ID: 630 0748 5675
Passcode: 531631

Please check the FNH Graduate Seminar Series webpage for general information and for the full schedule.

Reminder: LFS Curriculum Change – Nov 20 Deadline

Time again to submit any Curriculum Change Proposals you are considering. Proposals can include a variety of changes to an LFS course or program, from changing the title of a course to adding a new program.

Please forward your prepared Curriculum Change Proposal requests to Virginia Frankian by 12 noon, Nov. 20, 2020.

The process for curriculum change is:

• Create the proposal using the Curriculum Proposal Form (2-Column form;https://senate.ubc.ca/vancouver/curriculum-submission-guide/curriculum-forms). You can find the guidelines in the Downloads sidebar on the right-hand side of the page.
• Obtain approvals from your disciplinary group (e.g., applied animal biology, food science, and food and resources economics groups) followed by your corresponding Program (APBI, FRE, and FNH).
• Submit the approved form to the LFS Curriculum Committee via Virginia Frankian (virginia.frankian@ubc.ca). If needed, the Curriculum Committee will return the proposal to the originator for clarification or revision.
• Proposal approved by the Committee will be presented to the LFS Faculty Council at its meetings for approval.
• For a Category 1 change (e.g. new course and new degree program), a proposal approved by the Faculty Council typically requires external unit and library consultation, and budgetary approval. Subsequently, the proposal will be submitted to the Senate Curriculum Sub-committee, then to the Senate Curriculum Committee and finally to the Senate for approval.
• For a Category 2 change, a proposal approved by the Faculty Council will be submitted to the relevant Senate Curriculum Sub-Committee for approval.

The Curriculum Proposal review and approval process, especially Category 1 change, is a long one. Items can go through edits at any level, and be sent back to the originator for corrections. Some Proposals require consultations with outside parties.

For these reasons, it is important to plan and submit your Proposal as early as possible. Please find the Curriculum Change Proposal submission deadline schedule for the upcoming year below:

• September 18, 2020
• October 16, 2020
• November 20, 2020
• December 18, 2020
• January 22, 2021
• February 26, 2021

Please add these dates to your calendars. Proposals submitted after the LFS Jan 22, 2021 deadline may not be approved in time to be included in the UBC Academic Calendar for the following September.

CSFS Future of Food Global Dialogue Series

Title: Emerging Technologies for Enhancing Food Quality, Nutrition and Public Health
Speaker: Dr. Anubhav Pratap Singh, Assistant Professor & BC Endowed Professor in Food and Beverage Innovation
Date and Time: Thursday, November 5th at 3pm-4pm PST (45min Presentation, 15min Q&A)
Register here.

The evolving outlook of public perception towards food, nutrition and health has inspired the development of technology to produce and process food in a sustainable way. The presentation shall highlight three major sectors of technological evolution in the Canadian context:

1. Novel decontamination technologies for fresh food products.
2. Novel encapsulation and fortification approaches to deliver the functional nutraceuticals
3. Sustainable production and upcyling of plant-based protein ingredients.

Lunch & Learn Office Hours – Student Course Time Estimator Tool

This session will be held on Friday, November 6th at noon.

This week’s Lunch & Learn Session will be on the Student Course Time Estimator Tool by Michelle Lamberson, Director, Flexible Learning Special Projects, and Daulton Baird, both of UBC Okanagan’s Office of the Provost and Vice President (Academic).

The session will introduce the planning tool that enables instructors to estimate their student’s time commitment in a course based on the assigned learning activities. The tool is designed to be used for courses that represent the blended learning spectrum from face-to-face to fully online teaching. Bring your course syllabi and work through the examples with us!

Background on the Student Course Time Estimator Tool:
The Student Course Time Estimator Tool calculates the total time commitment expected and allocates activities into scheduled (set by the institution, typically live meetings) and independent (at the discretion of the student within the parameters set by course deadlines) activities. This tool was developed over the summer by a project team from UBC Okanagan and TRU, and adapted from an open source tool created by Barre, Brown and Esarey (see below)

Background and tool preview: https://ubcoapps.elearning.ubc.ca/
Original tool: Barre, B., Brown, A., & Esarey, J. (n.d.). Workload Estimator 2.0. Retrieved June 30, 2020, from https://cat.wfu.edu/resources/tools/estimator2/

To register for the session, please visit https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1

CTLT Workshop: Course Design Intensive for Faculty

The Course Design Intensive (CDI) for faculty is a week-long online workshop where participants work, individually and collaboratively, to design or re-design a course they are (or will be) teaching, acquire a broadened understanding of course design concepts, and gain skills and tools to apply to their course. Participants will meet over three days, with two days to work on their course design. Ultimately, the goal of the CDI is to support instructors as they work to enhance their students’ learning. The CDI is for faculty from UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan and is free to register. The course will run from November 17 – 24, 2020.

Register by: Thursday, November 12, 2020.

More information: https://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/course-design-intensive-november-2020/

Please contact the CDI coordinator, Sue Hampton, at susan.hampton@ubc.ca if you have any questions about the program.

CNS Protein Infographic Competition

The Canadian Nutrition Society (CNS) has launched the 2020 “Visualize Me” CNS Protein Infographic Competition in an effort to support the development of tools to address three key messages:

• What are protein foods and how much do we need?
• What are processed protein foods?
• How can protein foods be incorporated into the diet?

Participants must be an undergraduate or graduate student, post-degree dietetic intern, medical resident or postdoctoral fellow. The competition challenges participants to create factual, evidenced-based infographics on one of the above key messages. We encourage universities to consider this competition as a classroom assignment. It is an ideal activity to be undertaken for virtual teaching.

How to participate 

• Only one Infographic per category per participant may be submitted.
• Participants are required to pitch their infographic idea in no more than 50 words. The CNS Protein Foods Resource Document and mini resource documents targeting various audiences may be used for reference.
• The Infographic pitch must be reviewed by the participant’s advisor/supervisor to collect feedback and to enable any necessary changes to ensure accuracy and clarity.
• The following items must be uploaded to the competition portal:
  • a PDF of your infographic
  • 10-15 references (one page)
  • a brief curriculum vitae (max 2 pages)
  • an explanation of your background/expertise in protein and health (max 100 words)

The deadline to submit an infographic into the competition is December 18, 2020. More info here.