LFS Today Oct 4, 2021

LFS Virtual Townhall – recording

For faculty and staff who missed last Friday’s Townhall, a video recording is available to view on the Intranet. This page is CWL-password protected.

To view the Friday, Oct. 1 LFS Virtual Townhall – click here.

Random Acts of Recognition

Congratulations to Random Acts of Recognition recipients:

Eduardo Jovel, Dana-Lyn Mackenzie, Tabitha Martens, Duncan McHugh, Sahil Sahibole, Anisha Sandhu, and Will Valley for all their work organizing and supporting events to commemorate the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30.

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. We’ll send them a $6 Starbucks gift card and acknowledge their good work in LFS Today.

LFS in the News

Jennifer Black and Corey McAuliffe in the faculty of applied science, spoke about their recent paper which examined the associations between food worry and mental health during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. On next steps, Jennifer shared: “This is the time to ask our leaders about how they are going to ensure that all Canadians have both enough income and access to the basic necessities of life, which this research reminds us is essential for physical and mental wellbeing.” Times of Oman

Jennifer also spoke about their research on Spice Radio.

UBC United Way Campaign Updates

Virtual Kickoff Event
Thursday, October 14 at 12pm
Register here and feel free to invite your colleagues.

Coffee Campaign
When you sign up for $5 or more per pay donation to United Way through payroll giving (or a one time gift of $120 or more) by October 31st, 2021 your coffee will be on us for the month of November. The Coffee Campaign initiative is made possible by UBC Food Service, Ethical Bean, Milano, Triple O’s, Starbucks and Tim Hortons. For more details, click here.

2022/23 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters Competition

This competition is open to emerging and established clusters of research excellence in all disciplines on the Vancouver campus, and we welcome applications from both previously funded and new clusters. Applicants may select a budget term of one or two years. Cluster leads must submit a notice of intent to apply through the VP Research & Innovation’s enhanced online application system at https://apply.research.ubc.ca by November 1, 2021.

Details of this funding competition, the application process and upcoming information sessions on October 6 and 19 can be found at www.research.ubc.ca/GCRC.

Grants are enabled by the UBC Vancouver Academic Excellence Funds in support of Research Excellence Strategy 6 (Collaborative Clusters) in UBC’s strategic plan.

GCRC competitions are open to clusters led by researchers at our Vancouver campus. Clusters being led by researchers at our Okanagan campus are supported through the Eminence program https://research.ok.ubc.ca/faculty-staff/eminence.html.

France Canada Research Fund

The France Canada Research Fund aims to support developing new expert partnerships between France and Canada by promoting researcher mobility. UBC will pre-select a maximum of 5 proposals. To be considered for UBC’s internal selection, researchers must email their applications directly to the French Embassy in Ottawa (assistant.science@ambafrance-ca.org) with copy to UBC’s FCRF correspondent, Heather Frost (heather.frost@ubc.ca) by November 12, 2021.

Amount: Up to $15,000
Duration: 2 years

4th Food Structure and Functionality Symposium

October 19-20, 2021

The 4th Food Structure and Functionality Symposium – Structuring Foods for a Sustainable World will bring together renowned speakers from academia and industry – the people that push the boundaries in food research and production.

Presentations will describe developments in food structure design and functionality that confront the challenges of a rapidly changing world.

Contributions are invited in the areas of macro-molecular interactions in complex food systems, structure-function relationships, food materials science, alternative proteins, oral processing, digestion, advanced visualisation, novel imaging techniques and much more….

Learn more and register here.