LFS Today Sept 28, 2022

News

LFS in the News

Anubhav Pratap-Singh and team are developing oral insulin tablets that can replace daily insulin injections.
KOAA-TV (Pueblo, CO), KERO-TV (Bakersfield, CA), KXLF-TV (Butte, MT), KBZK-TV (Bozeman, MT), KATC-TV (Lafayette, LA), KIVI-TV (Nampa, ID), WGBA-TV (Green Bay, WI), KSBY-TV (San Luis Obispo, CA), WKBW-TV (Buffalo, NY), KJRH-TV (Tulsa, OK)

Jennifer Lipka, a MSc student in Integrated Studies in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, discussed her research into how native bees are impacted by changes in land use, climate change and pollution.
National Observer

Tech Tip Tuesday: Using Rubrics on Canvas

A rubric is scoring guide used to evaluate the quality of responses from your students. Rubrics can be analytic (criteria or traits to be evaluated with levels of performance on each criteria, like excellent, fair, poor) or holistic (integrates all aspects of the work into a single overall criterion). Canvas supports rubrics on assignment questions and can help your grading be more efficient, consistent and transparent for your students.

To incorporate Rubrics on Canvas, click on the “+ Rubric” button on your assignment. Create the criteria and the ratings, and assign the points according to your grading scheme. Once created, you can also apply pre-existing rubrics to other assignments.

Link to Documentation: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-add-a-rubric-to-an-assignment/ta-p/1058

Lunch & Learn Resources: https://lc.landfood.ubc.ca/lunch-learn-series-canvas-rubrics-with-gabriel-smith/

For more information, contact the LFS Learning Centre at it@landfood.ubc.ca

Mugshare is back at UBC and around town

Want to ditch single-use cups, but forgot your tumbler and can’t survive without coffee? mugshare has your back! With a super simple deposit-drink-return system, a sustainable coffee has never been easier. Check out mugshare.ca for details and to see a list of participating cafes on campus and around town.

Events

Oct. 13 – IRES Faculty Seminar with Jessica Seddo

Topic: Science Foundations for Governing Solar Radiation Management

Speaker: Jessica Seddon, Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale

Thursday, October 13

12:30 – 1:20pm

Beaty Museum Auditorium (2212 Main Mall)

IMPORTANT NOTE: NO FOOD OR DRINKS ALLOWED IN THE THEATRE.

Read the full abstract

Deadlines

Oct. 3 – Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

PLEASE NOTE: The internal LFS application deadline is Monday, October 3, 2022. Late and/or incomplete applications will not be accepted.

The UBC Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are provided annually from the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund for Advanced Studies and are available for most fields of research. The number of awards offered presently varies between three and five per year.

Value: Annual stipend of $50,000 for a maximum of two years plus a travel and research allowance of $4,000 over two years.

The application and nomination process is briefly summarized below. Refer to the Application Guide and Nomination Guide posted on the Killam webpage for complete details.

UBC Vancouver (UBC-V)

• Each UBC Vancouver department or unit sets its own internal application deadline for receipt of applications (typically early to mid-October). LFS internal deadline is Monday, October 3, 2022.
• Each department or unit at the Vancouver campus may forward one nominee to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies by November 10, 2022, at 4:00 pm PT. Note: Please refer to the list of units that may submit nominations (Applied Biology AABI, PLNT, SOIL, ISLFS and Food Science FOOD, HUNU). Rather than using UBC SharePoint, a Qualtrics survey link is provided in the nomination form and nomination guide for nomination submission.
• UBC-V contact: killam.fellowships@ubc.ca

For complete application and nomination details, as well as detailed eligibility requirements, please visit https://www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam-postdoctoral-research-fellowship.

Applications, including supporting documentation, are to be sent electronically to shelley.small@ubc.ca

Oct. 11 – Call for proposals: Nutrition North Canada Food Security Grants

The Food Security Research Grant will support Indigenous-led projects addressing food security and food access inequality in communities eligible under the Nutrition North Canada (NNC) program. The grant supports research that will address critical data gaps and increase the evidence base with respect to food access inequality, the dynamics of existing federal food access programs and food insecurity among Indigenous Peoples living in isolated communities.

For more information on the program, the grant, and how to apply, please visit Nutrition North Canada’s website.

Key dates

• October 11, 2022: deadline to submit letter of intent
• October 17, 2022: letter of intent notifications and invitation to proceed with full proposal for successful applicants
• February 3, 2023: deadline to submit full proposal
• March 3, 2023: Notification of final results