UBC – Faculty of Land and Food Systems Announces The Oral Examination for the Degree of 

MSc in ISLFS 

Khalil WALJI 

Nitrogen dynamics following incorporation of 3 year old Grassland Set-Asides 

Monday, May 8, 2017 at  1:00 pm
Room 350 – MacMillan Building 

Supervisory committee:
Dr. S. Smukler – Supervisor
Dr. M. Krzic  – Committee member
Dr. C. Terpsma – Committee member
Dr. S. Grayston – Committee member 

Defense Committee Composition
Dr. A. Riseman – Chair
Dr. S. Smukler – Supervisor
Dr. M. Krzic  – Committee member
Dr. Bondar – External
Dr. M. Johnson  – External

 

 

Everyone is welcome

We are thankful for all of those who already submitted abstracts for AGROSYM 2017. Please be informed that until 20^th of April 2017 we received more than 1000 abstracts from 68 countries (link: http://www.agrosym.rs.ba/index.php/en/about-agrosym) across the world! 

Furthermore, due to many requests to extend the deadline for abstract submission, AGROSYM 2017Organizing committee has decided to provide more time.

The new deadline for abstract submission is now fixed onMay 20^th 2017
Reminder:
The VIII International Agriculture Symposium “AGROSYM 2017”, will be held in Jahorina mountain, near Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), 5-8 October 2017.

AGROSYM 2017 will deal with seven thematic areas: (1) Plant Production (2) Plant Protection and Food Safety (3) Organic Agriculture (4) Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Management (5) Animal Husbandry (6) Rural Development and Agro-Economy (7) Forestry and Agro-Forestry.

For further information please visit our official website: http://www.agrosym.rs.ba/index.php/en/ 

We hope you will take advantage of the extended deadline to submit your proposal.

We look forward to see you on Jahorina mountain, near Sarajevo!

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With best regards!

The Organizers

For any additional information please feel free to contact:

Dr. Sinisa Berjan, Sympsium General Secretary,agrosym2017@gmail.com

Faculty of Agriculture,University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

or
Dr. Noureddin Driouech, Coordinator of Ciheam-MAIB Alumni Network (FTN),
infoftn@iamb.it
CIHEAM-Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari-Italy

Manveen Kaur, our MSc student and winner of the UBC 3MT Competition, is competing tomorrow in the Western Canada Regional 3MT Competition.

You can watch Manveen in the live stream here. Manveen presents in heat 4, at 3:15 CST (2:15pm PDT).

People’s choice voting takes place from 1:30-2:30pm CST (12:30-1:30pm PDT). Be sure to show your support by voting for Manveen!

Best of luck to Manveen from everyone at LFS!

The farm school program that I manage at KPU is looking to hire a full-time farm worker at the farm. We are looking for people between ages 15 and 30, and they must be a returning full time student in the fall. Essentially, this position will work on the farm and participate in some of the education program at the farm. Link to job posting: http://www.kpu.ca/isfs/job-opportunities 

Thank you for your help and don’t hesitate to contact if you need any help with UBC-MFRE related events and such.  

Cheers, 

Caroline

Spring Graduate Awards Competition

A number of criteria-based awards for the 2017/18 academic year are available to current and incoming graduate students. Applicants will apply via their graduate programs with a single application that may be considered for as many of the awards as they are eligible for.

INTERNAL DEADLINE – Friday, May 19, 2017.

Please see the G+PS Awards site for the eligibility criteria for each award and for application materials and procedures: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/spring-graduate-awards-competition. Questions can be directed to graduate.awards@ubc.ca.

SPRING Graduate Awards

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