LFS Today Sept 9, 2021

UBC Vaccination Status Declaration – action by Sept. 10

UBC sent a Broadcast email on Sept. 7 asking all students, faculty and staff to complete an online, confidential declaration of your vaccination status. By completing the status form as soon as possible, this will help the university see how many people may require rapid testing and plan accordingly.

You are asked to disclose your vaccination status as follows:

1. Visit https://rapidtesting.covid19.ubc.ca, log in to the disclosure site and complete the process as outlined. It includes questions about your COVID-19 vaccination status. Please note: you will require your CWL.
2. If you indicate that you are fully vaccinated, you will receive further communication outlining how to verify your vaccination status with the appropriate documentation.
3. If you indicate that you are not fully vaccinated, or you choose not to disclose your status, you will receive further communication about UBC’s Rapid Testing Program and the next steps you need to follow.

All UBC students, faculty and staff are asked to complete the Vaccination Status Declaration by September 10, 2021. A series of FAQs have been posted to help answer any questions you may have about the program.

To be exempt from UBC’s Rapid Testing Program, you will need to disclose your status (as per the process above) and verify your vaccination status at a later date.  

Other useful links:

• Info on the Provincial Vaccination Card (takes effect Sept. 13): https://www2.gov.bc.ca/vaccinecard.html
• To find a vaccination drop-in clinic in your community: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/covid-19/vaccine/vaxforbc
• Revised Return to Campus Guidelines from BC Ministry of Health: http://www.bccdc.ca/Health-Info-Site/Documents/COVID_public_guidance/Public_Health_Guidance_Campus.pdf

Last Call: 2020 Winter Term 1 Final Exam Requests – Due Tomorrow 

ALL WINTER TERM 1 INSTRUCTORS: If you have not yet done so already, please complete the Examination Request Survey by 9:00am tomorrow, September 10. Please refer to the September 2^nd edition of LFS Today for more details.

Random Acts of Recognition

Congratulations to Random Acts of Recognition recipients:

Grace Wong for being a superstar work-learn student over this past summer. She’ll be continuing to work with the Plant-Insect Ecology and Evolution Lab.

Wayne Tamagi for helping set up the LFS Student Services space to get us ready for the new year; adding the TV, moving the printer, installing the phone, and hiding all the wires in the ceiling. Wayne has helped bring the space together and make it super functional, and he does all of this with a huge smile. We are so deeply appreciative. 
 
Thilini Leitan: Lettuce celebrate you, and a successful orientation for 2021! Thank you berry much for coordinating the multi-layered Jump Start and Imagine Day orientation programming for LFS. Can we taco’bout how smoothly all of the training and day-of events went?! Our staff and faculty participants were aware of where to be and when, and our students felt so welcomed and supported throughout. You provided over 70 student leaders with exceptional leadership skills and created a fun and engaging experience for all. You’re one in a melon, and we donut know what we’d do without you. (a food-pun-themed thank you for all that you do!)     

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.

Teaching Theory Thursday

“Ask students to commit to a plan for success.
Have them complete a Goals Contract in the first few days of class. Submission of this contract could release the rest of the class content to underscore its foundational importance in the course.”

– Darby & Lang, 2019, Small Teaching Online, p. 150

Brought to you from the Learning Centre

IOF Seminar: The importance of scale complexities in fisheries research

Friday, September 10
11am – 12pm
Please note: This session may be recorded

Complex issues of scale are fundamental to all our understanding. They so much underpin our thinking that they often pass unnoticed and we fail to realise that the situations we are examining may be operating at conflicting or mismatching geographical, temporal, technological and/or intellectual scales. There are others as well, but these are the most common. It is only by recognising these different scales that we will be able to recognise when one or more of them are in play and may possibly be in conflict inter alia. Only then can we interrogate fisheries and their management adequately, recognising at which scale(s) we should be examining our topic.

Speaker:
Dr. Rosemary Ommer
Adjunct Professor
University of Victoria

Register here