LFS Today Nov 4, 2022
By imelda cheung on November 4, 2022
Call for Nominations – LFS Service Awards
Nominations are now open (https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b1uAycvz9GZ0Klo) 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 Friday, 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). |
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New Face in MFRE!
Please join us as we welcome Harry Izatt to the MFRE team as our new Data Analytics Coordinator. He will be responsible for advancing data analytics in our MFRE program via operationalization and ongoing review of the program’s coordinated data analytics plan that involves the instruction and support of software tools and data analytic applications. Harry is no stranger to UBC as he is a double alumni, holding both a BA and MA in Economics. His first day was November 3, 2022 so please come by and introduce yourself (either virtually or in-person)! |
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Random Acts of Recognition
Congratulations to Random Acts recipients:
Imelda Cheung and Andy Jeffries for their contributions to the decommissioning of the “Farrell research laboratory” over the summer months.
Daphne Wang and Deborah Wang for superbly negotiating some very complex financial systems at other universities. Their dedication and persistence with these difficult tasks were very evident.
To nominate a faculty member, staff or graduate student that’s been doing an outstanding job or has gone above and beyond in some way, send an email to lfs.recognition@ubc.ca and tell us why this person should be recognized, along with their email. We’ll send them a $6 Starbucks gift card and acknowledge their good work in LFS Today. |
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Daylight Saving Ends
A reminder that daylight savings ends on November 6 at 2:00am. To help you feel safe when the sun goes down, have a look at the following UBC-V campus information and resources:
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Events
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Today – Lunch & Learn Decolonisation Session: Engaging with A/r/t/cart/ography: Happier, healthier, wealthier?
Our next session will be held on Friday, November 4, 2022 at noon (PST). Will Valley (Associate Dean EDI, Faculty of Land and Food Systems) will be leading the session this week.
Starting October 2022, LFS Learning Centre will be hosting a new Lunch & Learn series on decolonization on the first Friday of every month at noon (PST). These sessions will be facilitated by Will Valley (Associate Dean, EDI at The Faculty of Land and Food Systems). These sessions will maintain the Lunch & Learn structure of being discussion-based and will have a short pre-reading associated with them to provide a brief context of the topic.
It is common to hear that we are in a historical moment defined by unprecedented levels of wealth and well-being, with the only perceived challenges being the possible interruption of the continued spread of this good news and its accompanying material gifts. But who is the “we” in these claims? For whom is this true and at whose expense?
The Gesturing Towards Decolonial Future’s Collective offers a pedagogical cartography of responses (7 min read) to the assertion that “everything is awesome”, through which they seek to invite active engagement with the limitations of this assertion in ways that might supplement the more point by point accountings of its inaccuracies and oversights. In this session, we will discuss the implications of the various positions represented in the cartography to help build the stamina that is necessary to sit with the contradictions, uncertainty, and ambivalence inherent to complex global challenges.
Join Will and The Learning Centre team this week to explore this cartography. To register for the session, please visit https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1.
Follow the Lunch & Learn Series on the Lunch & Learn Webpage! |
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Dec. 6 – CityAge: Scaling Regenerative Agriculture
As the world navigates threats to global food security, and works to drive down carbon emissions at the same time, it’s never been more important to examine these farming practices and ensure they’re the most effective ones available to us. British Columbia is in an excellent position to lead Canada – and the world – in identifying and scaling those practices.
Regenerative agriculture, a set of techniques that avoids chemicals and promotes soil health, is emerging as one of the solutions BC can lead the country in developing and scaling.
That’s why CityAge and the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Food are coming together to further outline the potential of regenerative farming on December 6.
Tue, 6 December 2022
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM PST
Online
Learn more and register |
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Nov. 7 – Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) Fund Competition
UBC’s Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) initiative provides a collaborative framework for researchers, students, staff and external partners to leverage the campus to explore, develop and test new ideas, and to share the knowledge gained from these experiences. The CLL Fund Competition provides up to $50,000 in seed funding for teams to develop new ‘living lab’ projects, and test them on campus.
November 7: Application deadline
Learn more |
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Nov. 15 – Job Posting: Multiple Open-Rank T-TT Faculty Positions Department of Health & Wellness Design, Indiana University
The Indiana University School of Public Health‐Bloomington (SPH‐B) invites applications for multiple tenured/tenure-track faculty positions in the Department of Health & Wellness Design (HWD). This is an open-rank search and applicants at all levels (assistant, associate, or full professors) are welcome. Individuals are sought who will demonstrate excellence in basic, applied, or translational research on health, healthcare, or health-related interventions. We seek applicants passionate about impactful science, training, and service towards our shared vision of “better health, by design.” These 10‐month appointments would ideally start August 1, 2023, although an earlier or later start date is negotiable. Applications received by November 15, 2022, will receive full consideration, and applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.
Learn more and apply |
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