LFS Today Sept 10, 2021

Save the Date: National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, Sept. 30

September 30 is National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, a new federal statutory holiday (day of recognition), and it’s also Orange Shirt Day. LFS will be holding activities to mark the day, in collaboration with Applied Science, Science and Forestry, including a march being planned for Sept. 30. The march will be multi-generational, and children and families are encouraged to attend. Please save the date!
 
For more details on the march, visit the website:
https://apsc.ubc.ca/event/2021/save-date-national-day-truth-and-reconciliation
 
If you have questions, feel free to contact Dana-Lyn Mackenzie, Senior Manager, EDI & Indigeneity (danalyn.mackenzie@ubc.ca) or Will Valley, Associate Dean, EDI (will.valley@ubc.ca).

$5 Brown Bag Tomato Program for Charlie & Lola

The Brown Bag Tomato Program is back!

Buy a bag of tomatoes for $5 (exact change is required) from the Finance office and help support Charlie and Lola, the greenhouse’s hardworking pest control felines.

Bags will be available starting Tuesday, September 14 after 1pm. The bags contain a medley of small tomatoes and if specified, one large, sandwich-style tomato. All proceeds will go to buying cat food/supplies for Charlie and Lola.

Sustainable Friday

Your sustainability tip of the week is

Have old batteries/light bulbs/ink cartridgers?
Use one of the designated recycling areas in the MacMillan loading bay or the copy/mailrooms.

Do you have a sustainability tip to share with your colleagues? Send it to mcm-lst@lists.ubc.ca and lfs.today@ubc.ca! Tips can cover a range of settings, from lab work to your community to working from home.

SPARC NSERC Workshops

NSERC 2021/22 Discovery Grant Evaluation Group Webinar

• Wednesday, September 15 10am – 12pm
• The webinar will be delivered via Zoom and all Discovery Grant applicants and support staff are invited to attend. Register here.

NSERC Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Program

• Thursday, September 16,1pm
• The webinar will be delivered via Zoom and all RTI applicants and support staff are invited to attend. Register here.

EDI in NSERC Discovery Grants webinar

• Wednesday, September 29, 10 – 11:30am
• The webinar will be delivered via Zoom and all Discovery Grant applicants are invited to attend. Register here.

Research Facility Support Grants

The Vice-President Research & Innovation has established the Research Facility Support Grants (RFSG) competition to provide funding for the operation, maintenance, replacement, repair or upgrade of equipment to support research.

This competition is open to faculty located at the UBC Vancouver campus and affiliated hospital sites. The RFSGs are one-year grants of up to $50,000 intended to enhance UBC research and training.

Applications must be submitted by the end of the day, October 1, 2021.

Learn more and apply here

2021 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Research Prize Competition

As part of UBC’s ongoing efforts to increase the benefits for Postdoctoral Fellows (PDFs), the Postdoctoral Fellows Office (PDFO) is pleased to announce the 2021 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Research Prize, an opportunity to recognize and reward UBC’s postdocs. The Killam PDF Research Prize is funded by the generous donation of Izaak Walton Killam and his wife, Dorothy Johnston Killam, who together created the Killam trusts. This initiative clearly demonstrates UBC’s recognition of the critical role played by PDFs in advancing the quality and excellence of our research.

The Killam PDF Prize will be administered through the PDFO and all nominations are to be forwarded to postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca. Deans, nominators and nominees will be apprised of the status of their nominations by April 1, 2022.

The nomination deadline for submission to the PDFO from the respective Deans’ offices is Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 10:00 AM PST.

The Nomination Guidelines, Nomination Form, and evaluation guidelines can be found on the PDFO website: https://www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam-postdoctoral-fellow-research-prize