LFS Today Sept 16, 2022

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2022 Winter Term 1 Final Exam Requests

ALL TERM 1 INSTRUCTORS: If you have not yet done so already, please complete the Examination Request Survey to indicate whether or not an exam will be required for your course(s) as soon as possible. Exam requests are now overdue. Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the exam scheduling process and resources found online, (particularly the ‘resources’ link).

Please contact lfs.scheduling@ubc.ca if you have questions.

Winter T1 INSTRUCTORS: Early/Off-Cycle Evaluations? Sept. 22 Deadline

With Winter Term 1 underway, if you plan to run early/off-cycle evaluations this term, please contact us at lfs.sei@ubc.ca as soon as possible.

Deadline: Thursday, September 22, 2022

Events

Sept. 30 – Intergenerational March to commemorate Orange Shirt Day

Led by UBC Applied Science and Land and Food Systems. There are no fees or registration required.

Join us for an intergenerational march to commemorate Orange Shirt Day. Members of the UBC STEM community, families and those in solidarity are welcome to participate. As this event is held on the day and classes are cancelled, we hope that the statutory holiday will allow faculty, staff, students and community members join the march and engage with the UBC Indigenous community. The march is intergenerational, and aims to be educational and supportive to the Indigenous community on campus and beyond. Educational activities will allow younger participants to connect with the original inhabitants of the land and plant a seed to continue these conversations of a difficult era in Canadian history at home.

Fri, September 30, 2022
11:00am – 2:30pm

Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre

Learn more

Oct. 2 – Joy of Feeding tickets available now!

Join 12 local chefs, including some from Vancouver’s most beloved restaurants, preparing their favourite family recipes in the fields of Vancouver’s local organic farm, the UBC Farm.

Featuring UBC Farm produce, Joy of Feeding is an outdoor food festival and fundraiser for Chefs’ Table Society of British Columbia’s new Culinary Centre and the food literacy programs at the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm.

Chefs include:

• Andrea Alridge, Head Chef, Osteria Savio Volpe
• Eleni Fergadi and Vassilis Kerasiotis, Owner/chefs, Nostos Greek Taverna
• Sarah Mierau, Founder, Tradish Plant Medicine Jams
• Frank Pabst, Executive Chef, Blue Water Cafe + Private Wine Rooms
• Vikram Vij, Co-owner and chef, Vij’s Restaurant

See the full list of chefs and buy your ticket now

Sunday, October 2

12 – 3pm

UBC Farm

Deadlines

Dec. 7 – NSERC and German Research Foundation launch new joint call on sustainable processes and chemistry

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) is pleased to announce that the joint call for Canada-Germany research proposals on sustainable processes and chemistry is now open.

The proposed Canada-Germany collaborative research projects must focus on basic and fundamental research and are expected to generate new knowledge and address one or more research challenges related to environmental sustainability. Canadian academic researchers may receive up to $100,000 per year for up to three years from NSERC to support their participation in the collaborative research project while German researchers may receive funding from DFG. This call for proposals includes a two-stage application process whereby Canadian researchers must first submit a modified Alliance International Collaboration grant application to NSERC by December 7, 2022. For more information, please read the funding opportunity on NSERC’s website. If you have any questions please contact allianceinternational@nserc-crsng.gc.ca.

Dec. 20 – The Homegrown Innovation Challenge

In a climate-changing world, Canada’s high dependence on imported fresh fruits and vegetables makes it vulnerable to food systems disruption. We are able to grow many fruits and vegetables in Canada; however, in large part because of our long winters and high costs of production, we import the majority of our fresh produce from other countries. This over-reliance on imports, coupled with growing public awareness of the need for sustainable and environmentally friendly growing practices, means there is a timely opportunity to improve Canada’s ability to grow fresh fruits and vegetables out of season.

The Homegrown Innovation Challenge will identify teams and support the development of tools and technologies that enable Canadian farmers and producers to sustainably and competitively grow berries out of season. By solving the interconnected challenges that currently prevent out-of-season production of berries at scale, the Homegrown Innovation Challenge will catalyze a range of solutions relevant to a broad array of fruit and vegetable crops in Canada and around the world.

The Challenge was launched in February 2022, and is funded and delivered by the Weston Family Foundation.

Key points

• The program will award $33M in total over six years, and an innovation team making it to the end of the Challenge can receive grants totaling up to $8M.
• Applications for entry into the Shepherd Phase ($1M to build out a small proof of concept) are due Dec 20^th 2022. Application to the Spark Phase (deadline passed in May) is not a prerequisite to apply for the Shepherd Phase. Applications may be submitted in English or French.
• We highly encourage multi-stakeholder teams to apply; the lead organization must be a CRA-qualified donee (QD), though non-QDs (including international and for-profit entities) can participate as part of a team. You can join our Circle community to network and help find needed skills, technology and members for your team.
• For more information please check our English and French websites (http://homegrownchallenge.ca/ and https://deficultiverlinnovation.ca/) or contact HGC staff (challenge@westonfoundation.ca or defi@westonfoundation.ca).